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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.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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ains two stories andan attic, with a dormer window on each side. A fine old wide hall with anold stair case with antique woodwork is a pleasant point in the architecture,and the lawn on each side affords a pretty picture from the doors with theshrubbery and grass, in natural condition. The east doors of the hall are ofremarkable width, and studded with brass nails, as a help against burglars.A stove pipe hole was cut in an upper panel perhaps before the days of hardcoal and furnaces. In front there is a fine piazza with a stone floor and Gre-cian pillars. The rear of the hall, which contains the entrance from the car-riage drive, in old English fashion, has a porch for admittance with atiiangular front, containing a window on each side of the door. The parloris furnished with chairs of the claw foot pattern or ancient style, which werea part of the furniture of the grandparents of the present occupants of thehouse, and stood on the first carpet used in Philadelphia at Fifth and Spruce
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GERMANTOWN. 223 streets, according to Watsons Annals. Mr. Craig built the two wings of thehouse, which he did not live to occupy. Under the main building are cellarkitchens and a sub-cellar. Under the front piazza is a wine cellar, and underthe porch a vault for meat. Cornelius S. Smith purchased the property in May, A. D. 1840. His twosons and two daughters (Robert L. and Cornelius S., and Rolanda S. Smithand Elizabeth S. Newhall), still occupy the old mansion. Since the purchaseof the estate, it has been increased by purchase and diminished by sale. Mr.Smith purchased eighty-four acres in the original tract. A stone which usedto be in a tenant house, which is now a ruin, reads thus: Ruined by the war■ of 1777, rebuilt more firmly 1780 by the trusty Isaac Tustin. A number ofIndian arrowheads, and several pennies of George the Fourths day have beendug up on the property; the pennies had been taken up within four or fiveyears. The Hessians were encamped on this place. The tradition i

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