3600 Powelton Avenue

 

 

The History of the Building

 

“Circa 1875, two-and-one-half story mansarded double; stone facade over brick; porch-fronted; full-height, first-floor windows; bracketed wood cornice; slate-shingled mansard roof with four gabled, arcuated dormer windows.”

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

 

Previous Residents of 3600 Powelton Avenue

1880:

Reese W. Flower             38      Manager of H.L. Co.; mother born in England

Annie E. Flower              30      Wife

Harry E. Flower              10

Marion E. Flower              8

Edith Flower                    5

Bessie Elinor Flower         2

Brget Connahan              18      Servant; born in Scotland, father in Scotland, mother in Ireland

Ana Tally                        17      Servant; born in Philadelphia

(ED 487, 13)

          The University of Pennsylvania had a Reese Flower Observatory on the West Chester Pike. (Rural Pennsylvania in the Vicinity of Philadelphia. By Samuel Fitch Hotchkin, 1897.)

 

1890 Blue Book:

          Mr. & Mrs. R.W. Flower, 3600 Powelton.

          However, Mr. & Mrs. Reese Flower [Sr.?] lived in Ashbourne, Montgomery Co. as did Mr. & Mr. William Flower.

 

1893, Oct. 15, Philadelphia Inquirer: “Henry E. Flower, of Thirty-sixth and Powelton avenue, is back from the World’s Fair.”

 

1900:

Annie E Flower              49      Widowed, 4 children; owned with a mortgage

Edith Flower                  25

Bessie E Flower              22

(ED 543, 7A)

 

1918 Draft Registration: 3600 Powelton Ave.

          Albert Frank Ulmer, Jr., b Feb 25 1876, Clerk for Penna. R.R.

          He listed Sarah C. Ulmer as his nearest relative at 3500 Powelton Ave.

          In 1900, Albert Ulmer lived at 3504 Hamilton.

 

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