3203 Winter Street
Previously called Spencer
Terrace
Developer: Smith
& Wendell
“This entire block,
both north and south sides, was bui1t as a single development
of doubles in 1886 by the same developer of Summer Street. The two-and-one-half
story Queen Anne-style houses are red brick with a pressed brick horizontal
band at the second-floor windows; this detail has been masked by alterations to
the brickwork in Numbers 3203 and 3205-07. The houses have front and side
projecting gables,
some with their original wood brackets, and shingles, and multi-light windows.
Original wood porches have received either minor or major alterations. Corner
houses have been demolished. --- Contributing”
(Inventory of Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the National Register of Historic
Places, 1985)
Previous Residents
1889: Miss Ellen E. Fay. Mandalay. Burma, 1889.
(Baptist Missionary Magazine)
“RETURNED FROM THE FIELD.... Miss
Ellen E. Fay...
“Missionaries
and their addresses:... Miss Ellen E. Fay, 3203 Spencer Terrace [Winter St.],
Philadelphia, Pa., 1889.”
("The Baptist Missionary
Magazine" )
1890 Census Veterans
Schedule:
Edwin G. Fay, 2nd
Lieutenant, C Co., 107Th N.Y. Infantry, July, 1862 - June, 1865.
In 1880, he lived at 3302 Woodland:
Edwin
Fay 38 Lumber
merchant
Sarah
Fay 36
Jules
Fay age indistinct Architect
Ellen
Fay 24 Sister
1900:
Edwin G. Fay 58 Lumberman; born in N.Y., renting
Sarah E. Fay 56 Married
32 years, no children; born in N.J.
William R. Young 82 Father[in-law],
born in N.J.
Ellen E. Fay 44 Sister;
missionary in Asia; born in N.Y.
Ma Tha-Yag Fay 29 Visitor
(female); missionary in Asia; Burma; single
Captain Edwin G. Fay died June 12,
1902 at age 60. They were living at 51 N. Farson St. He was buried in Elmira,
N.Y.
1910:
Andrew Henderson 64 Carpenter
(houses); born in Scotland, immigrated in 1881, naturalized citizen; renting
Mary Henderson 65 Married
30 years, 8 children, 4 surviving; born in England, immigrated in 1881
Arthur Henderson 26 Newspaper
artist
Frank Henderson 24 Bank
stenographer
Douglas Henderson 17
1969: see Powelton Quarterly
on successful effort to save Summer and Winter Streets. (vol 1(1); pp 1 &3).
Revised 5/25/2015