The
History of the Building
ÒCirca 1870,
three-story Italianate double, stuccoed, flat~
overhanging roof with modillioned wood cornice. Circa 1905 Colonial Revival
porch with dentillated cornice. Porch posts
removed and substituted with wrought iron.Ó
(Inventory of Buildings in Powelton from the application
submitted to the national register of Historic Places, 1985)
Previous Residents of 3202
Hamilton Street
1870:
George
Hancock 31 Surveyor;
real estate: $6,000, personal: $2,000
Henry 5
George B. 2
Willie (Walter) 7 months Born
Dec., 1869
Abi James 44
Susan Price 19 Domestic
servant; black; born in
Marion Leon abt 25 [<
at 3202 or 3204 Hamilton?}
(1870: p 41; 2nd enumeration: p 32)
For an introduction to the Hancock family, see the
Powelton
Post, Jan., 2009.
For a genealogy and biographies of his father and
brother, see Charles
W. Hancock in A History of Bucks Co.
1880:
Newbold Haines 32 Conveyancer; parents born in N.J.
Mary B. Haines 30
Katie Haines 5
(ED 483, 28)
1892: Rowland Comly,
President of Young Temperance Workers of West Philadelphia and Secretary of the
Evening Home for Boys: Friends intelligencer and journal, v. 49 pg 736
1897:
Percival Armitage,
sophomore in civil engineering:
1900:
Alice Stackhouse 58 Widowed,
2 children; renting
Esther F Stackhouse 28 Daughter;
bookkeeper for insurance co.; single
Anna M Stackhouse 19 Daughter;
milliner; single
(ED 539, 7B)
< 3200
Hamilton 3204
Hamilton >