3701 Baring Street

The History of the Building

1866: A resolution of the Select and City Councils of Philadelphia naming J. Henry Askin as a surety of Richard Peltz, Receiver of Taxes elect, and the City Solicitor includes among the properties to finance the sureties the “lot or piece of ground whereon is erected the premises numbered 3701 and 3703 Baring St.”

(Journal Common Council, City of Philadelphia. For the Year 1866. Vol 2. 1867. Pp. 163-4.)

1872 Hopkins Atlas lists Richard Peltz for 3701 (but J. Henry Askin for 3703).

3701-03: “three-story, red brick Victorian double with - corbelled brick lintels; modillioned wood cornice. - Porch alterations; 3701 enclosed and stuccoed.”

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

Previous Residents of 3701 Baring Street

1870:

Richard Peltz 38 Tax receiver; real estate: $15,000, personal: $12,000

Anna S. Peltz 27 Real estate: $25,000, personal: $10,000

Samuel Peltz 9

(ED 77, 117)

1866 Dir.: Richard Peltz, clerk, S E 6^th & Chestnut, h 518 Dickerson

1880:

Richard Peltz 47 Clerk

Anna S. Peltz 42

Samuel Peltz 20 Law student

(ED 489, 6)

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“Samuel Peltz A. B. [Univ. of Penna.], 1880; played short-stop and 3d base on baseball team 4 yrs.; Attorney-at-Law; mem. of Penn., 1893-96; mem. Union League. 310 Harrison Bldg., 15th and Market Sts. and 4211 Pine St., Phila., Pa.” (General Alumni Catalogue of the University of Pennsylvania, 1917)

1889: Samuel Peltz was the auditor for the accounts of Philadelphia county officers.

(http://books.google.com/books?id=-CLjupPDi5MC&dq=%22samuel+peltz%22&source=gbs_navlinks_s)

1894 New York Times: “THE QUAKER CITY REBELS: A Veritable Revolution Against Corruption and Bossism.”

...

“Now the rest of the combine forms as perfect a working “machine” as ever dictated to a municipal corporation. The thirty-seven members look to Martin, Porter, and Durham for instructions, and the three pass along the orders as Quay gives them to them.

“Here is the machine which dominates Philadelphia:...

“Twenty-fourth Ward—Samuel Peltz and C. Wesley Thomas. Peltz is a Representative in the State Legislature, and Thomas is a State Senator.”

( "Quaker City Rebels: A Veritable Revolution Against Corruption and Bossism." New York Times 30 Dec. 1894.)

1881 Directory: Richard Peltz, dep clerk court quarter sessions

Samuel Peltz, student

1884-‘93: Samuel Peltz was Solicitor to the Commissioners for the Erection of the Public Buildings, Philadelphia

1890: Richard Peltz, Court Quarter Sessions, h 3701 Baring

Samuel Peltz, 223 S 6^th, h 3701 Baring

1900:

Richard Peltz 67 Clerk of court; widowed; owner free of a mortgage

Samuel Peltz 39 Lawyer; single

Irene M. Kupp 35 House keeper

(ED 549, 3A)

1902, June 18: Marriage of Lillie A. Crippen (423 N. 33rd St.) to Samuel Peltz. They were married by a minister from the Church of the Savior (Protestant Episcopal), 38th and Chestnut Streets.

1910:

Richard Peltz 77 Widowed; owner, free of a mortgage

Alice Anthony 48 Niece; public school teacher

Agnes Curran 30 Servant; born in Ireland

(ED 499, 6A)

1920:

Walter Ball 48 Machinist (?); renting

Anna N. Ball 52

– 2^nd household

William H. Waker 66 Tailor with own shop; father born in Ireland, mother in England; renting

Ellen V. Waker 66 Born in England

Helen Livingstone 45 Boarder; teacher

Louise Bell 47 Boarder; clerk; born in Mich., father born in Canada, mother in Md.

Lida Marsham 38 Boarder; clerk

(ED 710, 7B)

1950 Directory: Harry J. Furman

M. Feely Hopkins

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