3705 Powelton Street
3705-3707:
“Circa 1880, Second Empire-style, two-and-one-half story double; stone facade
over brick construction. First-floor. full-height windows. Original wood porch intact but Number 3705
enclosed with glass. Same decorative applied wood cornice, slate-shingled roof,
and dormer as its neighbor 3701-03.
(Inventory of Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the
National Register of Historic Places, 1985)
History
1880:
D. B. Hershey 46 Engineer
Harriet Hershey
42
Carrie Hershey 19
Mason Hershey 17 Machinist
J. H. Musser 24 Boarder; physician
Charles H.
Sloan 30 Boarder; railroad conductor
Harry Cooper 25 Telegraph operator; he suffered from a problem with his left
leg
(ED 489, 28)
1881 Directory lists David B. Hershey, engineer, h 46 N. 38th
St.
1884: J. H. Musser, University of Pennsylvania Medical School,
Class of 1877, 3705 Powelton Avenue. (The
Philadelphia Medical Register and Directory, 1884-85. William Biddle
Atkinson.)
1889 Directory: T. M. Balliet,
physician
John C. Heisler,
physician
1891 Directory: Sophia A. Jones, widow
John C. Heisler,
physician
1895 Directory: John C. Heisler, physician
Walter L. Ronald (James Mann & Co.)
1900:
John C. Heisler 38 Physician; renting
Anna Heisler 37
Laura Heisler
4
Annie Corbin 21 Servant; black; born in Va.
(ED 549, 2A)
1908: List of
members: Dr. Robert Hunter, 3705 Powelton Ave.
(Transactions of the Sixth International
Congress on Tuberculosis.
Washington, 1908.)
1910:
Hetty A. Bratten 48 Boarding
house keeper; single; born in Md.; renting
William J. Bratten 46 Brother; department store salesman;
single; born in Md.
James M. Bratten 34 Brother; store salesman; single; born in
Md.
George L. Smedley 76 Lodger; bookkeeper for a banking house
Jane H. Smedley 73 Lodger; married 45 years, no children
Francis J.
Nobel 30 Boarder; clerk in an advertising agency
Anna C. Nobel 42 Boarder; stenographer in a law office
Elizabeth Steel
28 Boarder; saleslady in retail dry goods store; born in N.J.,
father born in England, mother in N.J.
Mary Mary --
Boarder; no other information
provided
Mary Emley --
Boarder; no other information
provided
(ED 499, 4B)
1913: “Hutchison Kirk. Jr., son of Rev. Robert H. Kirk '88 and
Margaret Hunter Kirk at McKeesport, Pa., in his twenty-first year. Relatives
and members of the Class of 1913 are invited to attend the funeral services,
Wednesday evening at 7.30 at 3705 Powelton Ave., Philadelphia. Final service and interment at Union Presbyterian Church, Coleraine, Pa., on Thursday at 11 o’clock.”
(Daily Princetonian,
April 2, 1913.)
1920:
Mary D. Stoy 75 Boarding house keeper; single; renting
Samuel T. Detwiler 64 Lodger; widowed
Paul B. Detwiler 32 Lodger; son of Samuel; paying teller at
a bank
Laura H. Brooks 25 Boarder;
hospital nurse
Maude Hobson 29 Boarder;
hospital nurse
Irma Keebler 27 Boarder; bookkeeper in a bank
Clara Nalson 29
Boarder; bookkeeper in a bank
Anna Fornwalt 58
Boarder; widowed; private secretary
(ED 710. 5B-6A)
1950 Directory: A. M. Hutchings
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