Name/Title
5301-5317 Germantown AvenueEntry/Object ID
2013.5.4.64a-cDescription
Three images found on pages 64 of scrapbook 2, "Pictorial Germantown Road and the Vicinity & Some of its Inhabitants. Compiled by George Clarence Johnson. Volume I. East Side."
Image a, at the top left is of the Shoemaker House at the northeast corner of Germantown Avenue and Shoemaker's Lane (Penn Street)
Image b, at the top right, is also of the Shoemaker House. A caption says this house was built by Isaac Shoemaker who married Sarah Hendricks, daughter of Gerhard Hendricks, on a corner of Hendricks' property, that Isaac Shoemaker died in 1732 and the property passed to Benjamin Shoemaker who served as Mayor of Philadelphia in1743, 1752, and 1760, then to Samuel Shoemaker who served as Mayor in 1771-1773, that Samuel Shoemaker's daughter married Robert Morris, son of the famous financier, that the house served as a British hospital after the battle of Germantown, that it was occupied by a De La Roche family for many years, that the Misses Lorain ran a school there, and that the house was demolished in 1838 or 1840 for the construction of "Cottage Row."
Image c, at the bottom, is a photograph of 5317 Germantown Avenue, the Daniel L. Smith house. A caption says this was the last of cottage row. The wall of the adjacent building on the left is visible with a sign that reads, "Headquarters for David Rittenhouse."Collection
GHS Scrapbook Collection
