315 North 35^th Street

The History of the Building

315-317: “three-story Italianate double, stuccoed with rusticated quoins. Original Victorian wood porch, full-height windows, paired ornate brackets below flat overhang.”

(Inventory of Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the National Register of Historic Places, 1985)

Previous Residents of 315 North 35^th Street

1855, Sept: Baring “by indenture estate” (Book NDW 64, p. 427)

1856, July 17: transferred from Charles Ingersoll & John Craig Miller, trustees of Harry Bingham Baring to Richard Smethurst (RD 88 149)

The 1858 Directory lists Richard Smethurst, conveyancer & accountant, 144 S 4^th St.

1859, June 4: transferred from Smethurst to Robert Steen (76, 142)

1860:

Charles L. Pascal 40 Hatter master; personal: $4,000

Mary Pascal 36 Born in N.J.

Kate Pascal 7

James C. Pascal 2

Mary O’Neil 22 Servant; born in Ireland

Mary Ferleener 30 Servant; born in Ireland

(Ward 24, ED 7, p 100)

The 1860 directory (compiled in fall, 1859) lists Charles L. Paschal, hatter 8 S. 6th, h 741 S. 9th St. He was in a partnership with James M. Sullender.

Charles Lacroix Pascal was born in Philadelphia in 1818. He was the son of John Pascal (1784-1856), a tavern keeper born in France. Charles’s mother was Ann Polhemus (1783-1853) born in Hopewell, N.J. In 1850, the senior Pascal had real estate holdings worth $30,000. Charles married Mary Stuart Campbell in 1852 in Philadelphia. According to the 1900 Census, her father was born in Scotland.

1861 Directory: C. L. Pascal, hatter, 8 S. 6^th St., h 35^th above Powelton

Sullender & Paschal, hats, 6 So. 6^th. St.

“No. 975, hats, by Sullender & Pascal, Philad. These makers have advanced their claim to public favor since the last exhibition, and from the taste displayed in the specimens exhibited, the judges think them entitled to consideration. To their beaver hats is awarded, the First Premium.” (“Fifteenth Exhibition of American Manufacturers held in Philadelphia by the Franklin institute, 1845.” Journal of the Franklin Institute, 1845, p 393.)

In early 1861, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania purchased $7,635 worth of caps from Sullender & Paschal for the Pennsylvania Militia. (Phila. Inquirer, May 21, 1961)

1863-’66: IRS records list Charles L. Pascal living on the East side of 35^th St. above Powelton. In 1866 he had an income of $241. In May 1865 he owned 12 ozs. of silver (plate).

1866, Feb. 22: Robert Steen died and the house passed into an estate which held it until 1920.

1870:

Charles Pascal* 52 Hat manufacturer; real estate: $12,000, personal: $10,000; father born abroad [France]

Margaret C. S. Paschal 43 Place of birth given as Pa. [but see 1860]

Kate C. Pascal 16 Place of birth given as Pa., but followed by a question mark

Campbell J[ames] Pascal 12 Place of birth given as Pa., but followed by a question mark

Catherine Cambell 73 Born in N. J.

Sarah A. Cambell 60 Born in N. J.

Maria Feloney 50 Domestic servant; born in Ireland; could not read or write

Maggie Callahan 30 Domestic servant; born in Ireland

(ED 77, 20; 2^nd enum.: 12)

* He is listed as Thomas, but this is clearly an error.

Catherine Campbell is Mary/Margaret Pascal’s mother. She was the widow of Captain Malcolm Campbell. In 1860, she lived at 3200 Arch St. at the home of James G. Hardie who was probably another son-in-law.

In March 1877, the family was living at 3302 Baring St. when Catherine Campbell died. When Charles Pascal died in September of 1878, they were living at 3705 Walnut St., a “first-class” boarding house. The notice of his death noted: “the members of Phoenix Lodge No. 130, A.Y.M., and the members of the French Nenevolent Society are respectfully invited to attend his funeral.” In 1880, Mary, Kate and James were still living there. James was 22 and a clerk in an iron factory. Kate married James M. Russel in 1881 and he is listed at that address. He worked in his father’s business, James Russel & Co., tobacconists. In 1900, Mary Pascal was 74 and living with the Russel’s and their three children (one of whom was named C. L. Pascal Russel) at 4218 Otter St.

c1878-’80: Lucretia Mitchell ran a girls school and kindergarten here. She was the widow of Charles Mitchell, a wholesale grocer. In 1870, they lived at 3318 Spring Garden St.

1880:

Mary Molloney 35 [Her marital status was not noted, but she was apparently not widowed or divorced as that was crossed out.]

Earl E. Molloney 7

Albertina Turner 36 Widowed

(ED 483, 4)

A business directory listed her as a dress maker.

c1886: Stackhouse, Susan P.

She was the daughter of Jacob Stackhouse (Stackheus), a farmer in Falls Township, Bucks Co. She was born c1856. She graduated from the West Chester State Normal School in 1876 after which she taught for four years. She then attended the Women’s Medical College and became a physician. In 1886, she gave the first series of lectures on health at Chester Normal School which covered such topics as “Dress,” “Respiration,” and “The Air We Breath.” In 1887, she was a Demonstrator of Surgery at Women’s Medical College. She died in 1888 at about age 32. In 1901, the graduating class at Women’s Medical College gave money “for the erection of a tablet to the memory of Dr. Stackhouse, to whose endeavors the existence of the gymnasium is largely due.”

c1887: Rev. T.F. German, St. Stephen Lutheran, English, General Council, Powelton Ave. East of 40^th (1887 Public Ledger Almanac, p 19)

1887 Directory: Samuel Sellers

Frederick Sellers, carpenter

In the 1860 census, they were listed in the 15^th Ward and he is identified as a “wire worker.” In 1880, they lived at 312 N. 32^nd St when he was identified as a manufacturer. In the IRS records for 1863, he is listed at Walnut below 38^th. In the IRS records for 1866, he is listed at 1314 Callowhill.

In 1873, the Sellers Brothers Wire Works and Soap Stone Packing factory was at the NW corner of Sloan and Powelton (between Sloan and State Sts.) built beginning in 1868. They manufactured iron railings, wire works, and soap stone packaging. They employed “75 hands (40 men, 20 boys, and 15 girls.)” They did wire weaving which was invented by his father. The Sellers family were very prominent in the neighborhood since 1860.

1889 Directory: Samuel Sellers (F. T. Sellers & Co.)

1890 Directory: Samuel Sellers

Frederic T. Sellers, builder

Alfred Buckman, clerk

1900:

Samuel Sellers 73 “Capitalist”

Mary C. Sellers 73

Frederic T. Sellers 34 Carpenter

Anna R. Sellers 32 Daughter-in-law

Boarders:

Anna W. McVaugh 68 Widowed

Anna B. Banting 68 Single

Anna W. Bernard 61 Single

Frank B Warren 24 Single, civil engineer

Kate Haney 40 Single, a servant

(ED 539, 10B)

1906 Blue Book: Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Sellers

Samuel Sellers died April 13, 1915. Mary Cadwalader Sellers died Feb. 26, 1919.

1910:

William J. Hicks 36 Commercial traveler

Elizabeth W. Hicks 29 Married 6 years, 3 children, 2 surviving

Elizabeth M. Hicks 3

William Morris Hicks 1 month

Bessie Gibson 55 Boarder; [occupation illegible]

Ella Davis 35 Boarder; [occupation illegible]

(ED 488, 1A)

In 1930, they were living in Lansdowne where he was a manager for a wholesale plumbing company.

c1915: “The Kindergarten Inn, 315 N. 35th St., Philadelphia, Pa., was organized by the Alumnae Association of the Froebellian Training School of Philadelphia, and was formerly known by this name. It is now maintained by Miss Emily D. Wright and an advisory council of about thirty women. The school is run on the plan of the famous Pestalozzi-Froebel Haus in Berlin.”

(Handbook of Private Schools. Porter Sargent. Contributor Porter Sargent. Edition: 87. 1915, p 193)

Apparently Emily Wright did not live in the neighborhood.

“The kindergarten idea originated in Bad Blankenburg, Thuringia, in 1827 with Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852). It reflected pioneering pedagogy and philosophy of early childhood education, based on behavioral studies in child development and aiming to socialize children with teachers playing passive, protective maternal roles rather than being controlling and directive. Froebel opened a school for teachers in Liebenstein in 1849. Teaching tools were colored forms and shapes give as ‘gifts’ that children manipulated to develop cognitive reasoning and cooperative skills. He emphasized physical exercise and nondenominational spirituality. Children aged four to six were to be socialized with self-control, cleanliness, politeness and obedience.”

(Germany and the Americas: culture, politics, and history. Thomas Adam. 2005. p 606-7.)

1920:

Charles W. Harvey 49 Church pastor; born in England, immigrated in 1896, became a citizen in 1906

Leslie Harvey 34 Born in Massachusetts

John C. Harvey 4

(ED 682, 3A)

Charles Woodroffe Harvey was born in Wivenhoe, Essex, England, July 17, 1870. His parents were John and Margaret Harvey. Margaet’s father was a minister in the Swedenborg church. She died in 1871. In the 1881 census of England, Charles was living with his grandfather, Thomas Harvey, a retired ship builder. Charles was listed as a “scholar.” A family genealogy (http://www.webrarian.co.uk/harvey/gwyharvey.html) states “he grew up to become an architect and later moved to the USA and became a pastor of the Swedenborgian church.” He arrived in New York March 21,1896 from Southampton. He listed his occupation as clerk. He graduated from Harvard in 1899, then went on to get a Master of Arts degree in 1902. (The 1900 census lists him living in Boston and in law school.) The picture at the left was taken about this time. He became a naturalized citizen in Brookline, Mass., Oct. 24, 1906. About this time he was a a lecturer in homiletics as the New Church College in Newtonville, Mass. In 1910, he was a clergyman living in Brookline, Mass. with his cousin, Florence Gowder (50), who was single. In May, 1911, he was installed as pastor of the First New Jerusalem Society, 22^nd and Chestnut streets in Philadelphia. In 1913, he was listed in the Harvard Directory as living at 214 N. 34^th St. with his occupation coded as ministry and education. That was the home of George Burnham, Jr. which suggest the Burnhams may have sponsored his move to Philadelphia. He died in Philadelphia in 1952 and was buried in Annisquam, Gloucester Co., Mass. His writings include a a pamphlet entitled The Problem of Suicide published by the Swedenborg Press.

In a report of the alumnae secretary of his class at Harvard in 1914, he wrote “In 1911, I received a call to the pastorate of our New Church, (Swedenborgian) Society of Philadelphia, and removed here at Easter of that year. I was appointed Vice-President of our Pennsylvania Association, shortly after, and represent the State on the General Council of our Church in America, also on the executive committee of our Board of Publication in New York. I have written : Sunday School Manual, "Primer of Doctrine." Member: Union League Club, Philadelphia; Harvard Club, Philadelphia.”

Leslie Clark Carter married Charles Harvey in 1910 in Newtonville, Mass. She was born in Forest Hills, Mass. in 1885, died in 1970 at age 84 and was buried in Annisquam, Gloucester Co., Mass.

John Carter Helmsley Harvey was born in Philadelphia in 1915. He had a long career in the theatre as a lighting and scenery designer. He worked on the sets of most of the well-known American musicals of the 1940s and 1950s. He formed a gay partnership with C. David Hocker (1911-1978) in 1940. They lived in New York. He died in 1997 in Annisquam, Gloucester Co., Mass.

Dorothea Ward Harvey was born about 1922.

1920, Dec. 17: Purchased by Charles R. and Leslie O. Harvey from the estate of Robert Steen

1930:

Charles W. Harvey 59 Clergyman; married at age 40; owner, house valued at $8,000; born in England, father born in England, mother in Scotland

Leslie Harvey 45 Married at age 26; born in Mass.

John C. Harvey 18

Dorothea W Harvey 8

(ED 396, 22B)

1943, June: Purchased by Wilbur Moore

1946, Sept.: Purchased by George and Elizabeth Hockel

1950 Directory: George J. Hockel

He was born in Pennsylvania, March 24, 1917. He died in Lee, Florida, Mar 25, 1978.

1961: Purchased by Jan and Dorthea Luytjes

Dorthea Luytjes was born abroad in Warwitz, Germany. Jan Luytjes was in Bogor, Indonesia. Martin Luytjes was born in den Haag, Netherlands. (Powelton Post, Feb., 1962)

1958: “Jon B. Luytjes has been instructor in the department of marketing and foreign commerce in the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in the spring term.” (American Economic Review, June 1958)

2007-08: Dorthea, an alto, sang with the Civic Chorale of Greater Miami.

1975: Purchased by Brian and Linda M. Noll

1979: Purchased by John R. Twombly

John R. Twombly, asst. prof., Wharton School, Pennsylvania; Jan. 1983-July 1983

2009: John R. Twombly. Clinical Professor of Accounting and Finance and Associate Director for Academic Affairs and Student Advising, Undergraduate Programs Education. Stuart School of Business, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

1984, Sept.: Purchased by Gordon B. and Caryn L. Heatherston (JAP 12, p 438)

1993, June 1: Purchased by current owners, Scott Ryder and Douglas Ewbank

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