Name/Title
426 Wyoming Avenue, Joy Wheeler Dow Architect, 1897Description
Shingle style home by architect Joy Wheeler Dow, who built several homes in the Wyoming area. This house was called the Pirsson Cottage in Dow's 1903 American Renaissance article and1906
"The Book of a Hundred Houses." The house may have been built for James Pirsson, one of the original Wyoming Land Development Company Owners. In 1912, Dr. Frank Jewett (who also lived in 430 Wyoming Avenue) lived in the house.Jewett was the president of Bell Laboratories and many employees of Bell labs lived in the Wyoming area. In 1919 Jessie and Janette Dimmick lived in the house. Jessie was the Secretary Treasurer of a Pennsylvania mining company.Collection
David Gibson Historic Sites Survey 1978Reproductions
Notes
The Book of a Hundred Homes. New York: Duffield & Co, 1906, 373-381.
