Photographs from Photo Scrapbook 1, Part 1, Page 14.
Photograph a: [top] is of the the former Green Tree Inn/Tavern (now known as the Daniel Pastorius House, located at 25 High Street {the corner of Germantown Avenue and High Street}, see catalog number 2012.6.280). The photograph shows a three story stone home with three dormer windows and two brick chimneys protruding above the roof line on either end of the house. An "overhang" runs the width of the house in the front. A front door is symetrically located in the middle of the first floor wirh a four paned transom above the front door. The front windows on both the first and second stories are framed by shutters. The roof is "seamed" . The side view shows two porches decorated with top "spindels" and bottom paneling. The backmost porch is larger than the side front proch. A hedge is visible in the right side of the photograph. A gas street light is also visible in the foreground. Four basement "windows" are visible in the front of the house just above ground level. The two semi-circular brick pediments closest to the front door appear to be "bricked over", while the two furthermost from the front door appear to be 'functional". Original photograph year 1904.
Photograph b: [bottom] is a view of the Michael Billmeyer House (see catalog number 2013.5.1.10a) located at 6505-6507 Germantown Avenue). The photograph shows a "twin" house built of stone with three stories and a dormer wndow on the third floor of each house. The foundation wall is visible in the front of the building with a small window on each house visible in the photograph. There are two sets of steps (running perpendicular to Germantown Avenue) leading to each first floor front door. Windows on the first and second stories front are shuttered. The pavement in front of the house is brick and raised up from Germantown Avenue. On the side of both houses is a stone retaining wall toped by a wooden fence on the left and a metal "picket" fence on the right. Each retaining wall is bisected by a set of stone steps leading to a side yard. Mature trees appear in front of both houses and in the side yards. At the top landing outside of each front door appear to be benches facing back-to-back. Original photograph year 1904.
