Historic Germantown Houses

Name/Title

Historic Germantown Houses

Entry/Object ID

2013.5.3.6a-d

Description

Photographs on page 6 of Scrapbook 5, views of four historic Germantown houses. Photograph a [top left] is of the Kunders House, 5109 Germantown Avenue, c. 1910, with the notation "See Vol. I, Photographs, p. 21. The front door and upper windows are open but the lower windows are shuttered. A sign above the shutterd windows reads, "J. S. Harding & Son, Antique Furniture." The corner of the adjacent house on the lft is separated from the Kunders house by a driveway above which is a sign for N. Schmitt, Roofing, Heaters, and Ranges with the promise "repairing promptly attended to." The adjacent house on the right abuts the Kunders House and displays a sign for A. H. Connahan Millinery. Photograph b [top right] is of the Harland House, 5200 Germantown Avenue. Photograph c [bottom left] is of the house of John C. Knox, Pulaski Avenue south of Hansberry St., c. 1870. Photograph d [bottom right] is of Ivy Lodge on East Penn Street, fronted by a brick wall with a wrought iron gate.

Photograph Details

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

unknown

Collection

GHS Scrapbook Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Unknown

Studio

Unknown

Date made

1870 - 1910

Notes

Author: Unknown