3421 Race Street

 

 

 

The History of the Building

 

3419-21: ÒCirca 1870, two-and-one-half story Second Empire style double house with stone facade, original wood porch first floor full height windows, and mansard with patterned polychromatic slate shingles.. Cornice below mansard has elaborately carved wood frieze and soffit. Wood mansard dormers incised and carved. 3421 has a three story brick addition to west with first floor arched passage and second and third floor projecting bays.Ó

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

 

Previous Residents of 3421 Race Street

1880:

John Doyle                  41        Builder; born in Ireland

Mary Doyle                  36        Parents born in Ireland

Harry J. Doyle             12

Anna Doyle                   9

Walter A. Doyle            7

Gilbert C. Doyle            5

Raymond Doyle             2

Margret McAleer         45        Servant; born in Ireland; can not read or write

Sarah Gilmore             22        Servant; born in Ireland

(ED 483, 19)

 

1900:

Evaline Spencer          66        Widowed, 2 children

Pauline W Spencer      35        Daughter; school teacher; single

Mary Comor                46        Servant; born in Ireland

Tillie Ramstrom           27        Servant; born in Sweden

Frances I Brock           42        Niece; music teacher; single

(ED 578, 3A)

 

1902 Pauline W. Spencer

(Journal of proceedings and addresses of the ... annual meeting, National Education Assn., Volume 35)

 

1915: Pauline Wolcott Spencer, A.B., Ô08, A.M., Ô10 Ph.D., Ô15, Univ. Penna., 1893, Teacher of history and principles of education Philadelphia Normal School

(N.E.A. bulletin, Volumes 4-5. National Education Association of the United States. 1915)

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