Name/Title
Christopher Saur HouseEntry/Object ID
2013.5.4.48a-cDescription
Three images of the Christopher Saur house at 5253-5255 Germantown Avenue, found on page 48 of scrabbook 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 an etching showing the Germantown Avenue frontage with adjacent buildings.
Image b, at the upper right, is etching showing the south end of the house as it appeared in 1859. Image c, at the bottom, is a photograph showing the same 1859 view as image b, with Grimblethorpe barely bissible through trees at the left.
Notes say the the house was built in 1731 and demolished in 1860, that it was the site of the Saur (Sower) printing business established in 1731, which printed a German Almanac in 1738, and a German Bible in 1743.Photograph Details
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GHS Scrapbook CollectionMade/Created
Studio
UnknownDate made
1731 - 1859Notes
Author: Unknown
