3313 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: ÒCirca 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 bayÓ
(Inventory of Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the National
Register of Historic Places, 1985)
Previous Residents
1865,
October: Deed transferred from Alexander Moore to Augusta Hancock.
1870:
Sarah Henry 47 Personal
property: $10,000; born in
Walter Henry 18 Draughtsman
Jane Anthony 50 Domestic
Servant
(ED 77, 30; 2nd
enum.:31)
187?,
May: Deed transferred from Augusta Hancock to Isaac Leech.
1880,
March: Deed transferred from Isaac Leech to Caleb E. Matlack.
1888,
May: Deed transferred from Caleb E. & Emma J. (wife) Matlack
to Ada Leonard Edbrooke.
1893,
March: Deed transferred from George H. & Ada
(wife) Edbrooke to John & Elizabeth (wife) Sheatz.
1893:
John O. Sheetz House, alteration and additions;
architect: Minerva Parker Nichols. (First
American Women Architects. 2008; Pg 163)
1904: ÒSHEATZ, John Oscar: Member of the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives from Philadelphia; born in Lehigh County, Pa., Feb. 27, 1856;
educated in the public schools and spent one term in Preparatory Department of Muhlenburg College. Allentown; was employed in the Baldwin
Locomotive Works thirteen years, having had charge of different departments the
last four years he was in their employ. He left to engage in the coal business
and is now in the real estate business; is also Treasurer of the Frank Queen
Publishing Company of
1933,
June: Deed transferred from John & Elizabeth (wife) Sheatz
to Real Estate Land Title and Trust Co.
1914:
Emma Queen: stockholder holding more than 1% N. Y. Clipper (weekly paper) N. Y.
Clipper 3/28/1914 pg. 10
2009:
Current owner: John J. Myers
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