Name/Title
Billmeyer HouseEntry/Object ID
2013.5.4.151bDescription
Photograph of the Billmeyer House found on page 151 of scrapbook 2, "Pictorial Germantown Road and the Vicinity & Some of its Inhabitants. Compiled by George Clarence Johnson. Volume I. East Side."
A caption locates the house at the northeast corner of Germantown Avenue and Upsal St., says it was built in 1727 by John George Bessel, that George Washington was there during the Battle of Germantown, and that printer Michael Billmeyer bought it in 1788.Collection
GHS Scrapbook Collection