3702 Spring Garden Street
The
History of the Building
3700-02, 3704-06, 3708: “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.”
(Inventory of Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the
National Register of Historic Places, 1985)
The
Scott Atlas published in 1878 shows these lots owned by J. P. Bruner.
Previous Residents
1900:
Thomas Magee 70 Renting
Jane Magee 74 Three children [sic.]
Lucy I. Magee 41 Daughter;
single
E. J. Magee 37 Daughter;
single
E. H. Magee 25 Daughter;
single
Annie Bryans 50 Servant;
single; born in Scotland
1910:
Jane Magee 72 Widowed, 4 children, 3 surviving; born
in Ireland, immigrated in 1851; owner, free of a mortgage
Lucy I. Magee 45 Merchant
at retail stationary store; single; parents born in Ireland
Eliza Jane Magee 40 Teacher at
public kindergarten; single; parents born in Ireland
Emilie H. Magee 30 Single;
parents born in Ireland
Annie Bryans 50 Sister;
single; born in Ireland, immigrated in 1867
Note
differences between 1900 and 1910 censuses.
1914, Feb. 21: Death of Jane Irwin Magee, 78, widow of Thomas
Magee of 3702 Spring Garden St. She was born in Ireland.
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