3311 Hamilton Street
The History of the Building
The
northern edge of this property was part of the northern boundary of the
Bingham-Baring estate.
3311-3313:
“Circa 1870,
three-story cruciform plan Italianate style double, with bracketed overhang typical
of Powelton neighborhood. Recessed front patios of 3311 filled in circa 1920.
3313 has circa 1890 three-story brick tower with corbelled brick cornice added
to front and second-floor cast iron enclosed metal bay over columns added to
recessed bay”
(Inventory of Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the
National Register of Historic Places, 1985)
Previous Residents
1865, December:
Deed transferred from James Watt to John & Mary (wife) Lange.
1870:
John L Lange 45 Architect;
born in
Mary S. Lange 44
Eliza Lange 14
Mary Walters 18 Domestic
servant; she could read, but not write
Jane Smith 22 Domestic
servant; born in
(ED 77, 29-30)
In
1880, Mary Lange was widowed and living at 2117 Delancy
Place in the home of Elizabeth Patterson (age 82), who may have been her mother..
1880:
William W. Gilcrist 34 Professor of music; born in Jersey City,
N.J.
Susan Gilcrist 33 Born in Boston, Mass.
Anna R. Gilcrist 9
Charles A. Gilcrist 6
William W. Gilcrist 1
(ED 484, 1)
In 1870, they lived at
“William Wallace Gilchrist, b.
Jersey City, N. J.; d. Easton, Pa., Dec. 20, 1916, received his entire musical
training from Dr. Hugh A. Clarke, in Philadelphia, where his whole life was
spent, and exerted a powerful influence. Organizer and conductor for forty
years of the Mendelssohn Club, conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony
Orchestra, President of the Musical Art Club, vocal teacher at the Philadelphia
Academy from 1885, a prolific composer of works of large proportions, choral
and orchestral, much chamber music, many songs, anthems, etc. He was awarded
the prize of $1,000 by the Cincinnati Festival Association in 1882 for his
setting of the 46th Psalm; he also won two prizes offered by the Abt Singing Society of Philadelphia, and three prizes
offered by the Mendelssohn Glee Club of New York.” He was also founder and first President of
the Manuscript Music Society of Philadelphia.
(Sumner
Salter. “Early Encouragements to American Composers.” The Musical Quarterly, Vol. 18, No. 1
(Jan., 1932), pp. 76-105)
1881 Directory: William W. Gilchrist, music teacher
1887 Directory: James A.
Thompson,
clerk
The
1890 directory lists him at 222 N. 32nd St. In 1902, he married Adelaide W. Forbes,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Forbes.
They were married at St.
Andrew’s Protestant Episcopal Church.
John B. Walker
1890 Directory:
John H. Crawford
John B. Walker
1896 Blue Book: Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Crawford
John B. Walker
1900:
Thomas Collins 47 Clerk;
single; father born in N.Y.; renting
Helen Bunting 45 Sister;
inn keeper; widowed with one child; father born in N.Y.
(ED 540, 15A)
1911, May: Deed transferred from Mary S. (widow) Lange to
Albert L. Byrnes.
1917: Albert L. Byrnes
listed as secretary of the Forty-Fourth Ward Building and Loan Association in
the Annual report of the Commissioner of Banking by Penna. Banking Dept. 1918 In the
same document he is listed as Secretary of Zenith Building and Loan Assoc.
1920:
William T
Dunbar 42 Automobile builder; born in
Beatrice M
Dunbar 41 Born in
William T
Dunbar 10
Violet
Margarete Dunbar 4 yrs, 4 months
Robert Dunbar
2 yrs, 1 month
Catherine Ralby 17 Servant; parents born in
(ED 684, 9A)
The WWI draft registration card 1917-1918 lists William
T. Dunbar as living at 3620 Hamilton
St. and self employed at the Dunbar Auto Body Co. S. E. corner 37th
and Filbert St. He is listed as medium height/stout build blue eyes/brown hair.
In 1910 he was living in
1927 Directory: Mrs. W. T. Dunbar
2009: current owner:
James A. McDaniels, rented to tenant
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