3704 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
1882 Directory: Campbell James A., clerk
1891 Directory: Worrall Clarence A., Artist
1900:
A.H.C. Rowand 47 Physician;
father born in NJ, mother in WDC; renting
Mary Rowand 45 Married 12 years, no children
Maude G. Cline 27 Sister-in-law;
secretary; single; born in W. VA, parents in VA
1908 Directory: Warren Cecilia
1910:
Alexander H. C. Rowand 55 Physician;
married twice; father born in NJ, mother in WDC; owner, free of a mortgage
Mary E. Rowand 30 Married once for 25 years, no children
Cecilia S. Warren 37 Boarder;
own income, single; born in NJ, father in NJ, mother in NY
1924, Aug. 14: Death of Alexander R. H. Rowand,
71 years old, of 3704 Spring Garden St. Burial at West Laurel Hill Cemetery.
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