3700 Block of Spring Garden St., South Side
Information
for specific addresses from the Inventory of Buildings
in Powelton from the application submitted to the National Register of Historic
Places (1985):
3700-02,
3704-06, 3708:
“Circa 1880,
two doubles and one one-half double built by same developer. Pennsylvania
marble front, cut ashlar with tooled surface. Porch-fronted bays on either side
of central entrance porch. Handsome pierced wood cornice and mansarded roof with gabled, bracketed dormers. All good condition.”
3710:
“Circa
1895, one-half of double (with Number 3708). Two-and-one-half story yellow brick,
wood porch with Japanesque lattice work. Pressed metal second-floor bay. Grand arch in gable of
slate-shingled mansard; corbelled brick cornice; condition is weak; infill,
windows replaced, porch deteriorating.”
3716-18:
“Circa 1885,
three-story double, iron pyrate brick. Victorian porch. Rusticated stone lintels, smooth stone
sills; each house has gable with vergeboard, shingled
face and small window; slate-shingled mansard with front lip; paired
third-floor windows below gable.”
3720-22,
3724-26, 3728-30:
Thes were built c1870.
“three, two-and-one-half story. mansarded double by same developer; crazy quilt
schist façade, brick sidewalls. Porch-fronted, most porch columns altered. Full-height first-floor windows; 2/2 double-hung segmental sash at
second floor; bracketed cornice below imbricated slate-shingled mansard.”