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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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esident of the Western Bank. This isan antique looking modern building, Mith shingle work on the exterior, suchas may be seen on some old houses at Lewes, Delaware, near the sea. Irregu-lar windows are set in the gable end on Stenton avenue. The studied irregu-larity of this kind of architecture affords a pleasing relief to the eye, tired ofthe monotony of a house built merely to accommodate itself to the furniturewhich is to be placed in it. The next house on the same side is that of Judge C. Stuart Patterson.Yellow and brown colors on it give it individualitj^, and afford a contrast tothe surrounding dwellings. The woodwork displays the cross-beams on theoutside after the manner of Swiss and English cottages. We now cross Prospect avenue.and on the right reach the late Joseph Patter-sons place, and next the abode of John C. Sims, the son-in-law of JosephPatterson. Joseph Patterson was the president of the Western National Bank. w H > o a o K > o >t—I Kw o P nKw VI H iz!GH
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CHESTNUT HILL. 445 The house in which he lived is a pleasant and ample stone mansion with anextensive lawn about it. Between Judge Pattersons residence and Prospectavenue, on the corner of Union avenue, is the .pretty gray stone, ivy-coveredmansion of J. E. Terry. This lies on the left in going from Stenton avenue.A bay window adorns the mansion. Mr. Brown has a house on Prospect avenue.Mrs. Henrietta C. Booth has built a small village of neat and pretty houses atthe eastern end of Gravers lane. MONTGOMERY AVENUE. This avenue runs parallel with Stenton avenue in the rear of Mr. Bucknellsproperty. Next below the house of John Lowber WeLsh is the residence ofWilliam Henry Trotter, the brother of E. H. Trotter, who owns the pleasantly-located mansion on Sugar Loaf. The lawn descends abruptly to a rneadow-like ground below. AVe next come to the place of Thomas Stewardson. A double bay windowrelieves the form of the exterior of the house, while the roof is broken withgables. There are wood

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