3200 Powelton Avenue
Designed by G.W. and W.D. Hewitt for Smith and Wendell, developers.
3200-3206 “Three-story, two-register
Victorian brick rowhouses…. first floor original wood porches intact except for
3200, where removed; balustrade altered on 3202; full-height first floor
windows and doors have splayed brick lintels; pressed brick belt courses at
second and third floors; stone lintels and sills at second floor windows; third
floor windows have rusticated brick spandrels, recessed decorative brick
spandrels below and stone lintels above; pressed brick panels below flat roof
line.”
(Inventory of Buildings
in Powelton from
the application submitted to the National Register of Historic Places, 1985)
History
1883 Directory: Lovell Emer of S. G. S. Lowell & Co.
1880
Census for 2823 Girard Ave.:
Emer
S. Lovell 56 Sells clocks; born in Massachusetts
Mary
Lovell 57 Born in Massachusetts
Michael
R. Minnich 33 Boarder; clergyman
Mary
Minnich 28 Boarder
George
Minnich 4 Boarder
Mary
Minnich 2 Boarder
Sarah
Burton 60 Servant; black; born in Delaware
Mary
Minnich was the Lovell’s daughter.
1887 Directory: Lovell Emer of S. G. S. Lovell & Co.
Lovell Westcott
1890Directory: Minnich M. Reed, manager
1021 Market St.
1894, Sep. 14: Death of Emer Smith Lovell, 72 years old, of 3200 Powelton
Ave. He was born in Glouster, R.I. and was Vice
President of Lovell Chocolate. Burial was in the Woodlands Cemetery.
1895 Directory: Lovell Mary C.
1899 Directory: Minnich Michael R.,
Secretary 1021 Market St.
The
1900 census shows him living at 4021 Baring St. with his wife, Mary, their three
surviving children. (They had lost four other children.) Michael was 53 years
old.
1900: Not enumerated in this census. It
was probably vacant.
1902 Directory: Osmond Charles H., clerk
In
1900, he was a border living at 3105 Powelton Ave. He was 35 and single. He
worked for the railroad.
1910:
William G. Winder 60 Physician in
general practice
Mary C. Knight 50 Sister;
widowed, 2 children
Walter G. Knight 26 Salesman in
department store
In
1900, they lived at 3212 Powelton Ave.
Added 9/24/2022