3214 Powelton Avenue

 

3208-3218: “Anne style red brick rowhouses built as one development; central two with paired Dutch gables in slate-shingled mansard; other houses have either large gabled front with paired windows and attic stories or smaller gables with wood-shingled face and brackets set in original slate-shingled mansard; all have first floor wood porches…. Architects: G.W. and W.D Hewitt. --- Contributing.”

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

 

History of 3214 Powelton Avenue

 

1887 Directory: Edwards A. B.

                         Moorehead Joseph W., bookkeeper

            The 1886 directory lists Moorehead as a carpenter living at 3708 Lancaster Ave.

 

1900:

Henry C. Carpenter     55        Head of compilers comer. museum; born in New York; renting

Agnes M. Carpenter     45        Married 24 ears, 3 children; born in New York

Marion A. Carpenter    23        Linguist; born in Delaware

Charles E. Carpenter   21        Clerk Craner Museum; born in Delaware,

Helen G. Carpenter     18        Born in Delaware,

 

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