308 North 32nd
Street
306-312:
“three-story Victorian red brick rowhouse with original wood porch spanning across
306-08. 310-12 have circa 1960 porch alterations. Building decorated with tan
and red brick. patterned band and pressed brick. Corbelled brick cornice. Over
second floor is bracketed flared metal pent that slopes from roof line. Wood
gable with spokes projects from third floor.---
Contributing”
(Inventory of
Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the National Register of Historic
Places, 1985)
History
of 308 N 32nd
1880 Directory (Fall 1879): Curtis Cyrus L.
Curtis Hermann K, H. K. Curtis
& Co.
The 1878 directory lists him working at 713 Sansom St. but living in
Boston.
1880:
Hermann Curtis 29 Publisher; born in Maine
Louisa Curtis 29 Born in Maine, father in Maine, mother
in Massachusetts
Cyrus Curtis 58 Father; gentleman; paralyzed; born in
Maine
Mary L. Curtis 4 Born in Massachusetts
Jenny Jones 18 Servant; parents born in Wales
Cyrus
Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis founded Curtis Publishing which published the Ladies’
Home Journal, The Saturday Evening Post and other
prominent periodicals. The 1883 directory lists him living in Camden.
1881 Directory: Curtis Cyrus L.
Curtis Hermann K., H. K. Curtis
& Co.
1889 Directory: Potts Hiram H., clerk
Potts
Howard J., inspector
Potts Howard J., Jr., clerk
The 1887 directory lists them living
at 2139 Vine St.
11/4/2021