4825 - 4839 Germantown Avenue

2013.5.4.21a-b

2013.5.4.21a-b

Name/Title

4825 - 4839 Germantown Avenue

Entry/Object ID

2013.5.4.21a-b

Description

Two items on page 21 of scrapbook 2, "Pictorial Germantown Road and the Vicinity & Some of its Inhabitants. Compiled by George Clarence Johnson. Volume I. East Side." Item a is a printed commentary apparently about the Ottinger House, 4825 Germantown Avenue (Main Street). It comments about an inscription on a window pane referring to John Andrew Shulze, Governor of Pennsylvania, 1823-1829. Item b is a print of an etching of the Dedier House, Fisher's Lane at 4839 Germantown Avenue (Main Street) with a caption indicating that the house was built by John Dedier in 1733, indicated on a map of 1746 by matthias Zimmerman and copied on a map by Christian Lehman in 1766, since replace by a brown-stone house occupied by Dr. William F. Henson.

Collection

GHS Scrapbook Collection