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Title: Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hotchkin, Samuel Fitch, 1833-1912
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., P. W. Ziegler & co.
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give a character to a house,but in combination they are like the characteristics of a great man who excelshis neighbors in many ways. This strikes me as one of the quaintest andmost picturesque houses in Chestnut Hill, and it is welcome in the varietywhich it gives. The material is brick below and tiles and shingles above.The shingles have an ancient look. There is a hipped-roof on a side gable.The front of the second story projects over the lower one. The house standsacross the front of both Evergreen and Prospect avenues. One of the frontgables is finished in white color. The building is a regular antique. A long,narrow window, one pane wide, cuts the bricks and shingles of the lower sideof the front of the house. The windows are square-topped with black sash,though one upper front window is curved. This house reminds us of the newhouse of the great Dutch artist Alma Tadema, in London. It is described ina newspaper thus: Its exterior presents in little bits nearly all the styles of
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CHESTNUT HILL. 487 all the ages, from the days of classic glory to the present time. Within thishouse the studio is beautiful and artistic, according to an illustrated volumewhich describes it. The house of A. Grove, Jr., at Wyndmoor avenue, also deserves notice. Opposite this house Mr. Bradley has a square, light colored stone house,with a Grecian pillared piazza, which gives another style of architecture. Itis pleasant sometimes to see the old pillars like those of the porch, where theStoic philosophers were wont to walk in ancient days. A water color sketch of a view of Chestnut Hill from the Bethlehem pike in1840, by George W. Holmes, shows an almost open country as far as the eyecan reach. The original is in possession of Furman Shepherd, Esq., who pre-sented a copy of it to Rev. Dr. Harris, in whose study I have had tlie pleasureof viewing it. But two or three old farm houses appear, one of which wasdestroyed to make way for the round-house of the Heading Railroad a year ortwo a

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