3706 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:
William H. Warren 68 Butcher; born
in NJ, father in PA, mother in NJ; owner, free of a mortgage
Mary Warren 67 Married
43 years, 8 children; born in NY, father in NY, mother in NJ
Lafayette Warren 31 Clothing
salesman; ingle; born in NJ, father in NJ, mother in NY
Cecelia Warren 29 Single;
born in NJ, father in NJ, mother in NY
1906, Jan. 7: Death of William Henry Warren, 74 years old, of 3706
Spring Garden St.
1906, Mar. 22: Death of Mary E. Warren, 73 years old, of 3706
Spring Garden St.
The
1908 directory and 1910 census list her daughter, Cecelia Warren, living next
door (3704
Spring Garden St.) at the home of their family physician, Dr. Rowand.
1910:
Caleb N. Denning 63 Locomotive
engineer; born in NJ; owner with a mortgage
Emma Denning 62 Married 42
years, 8 children, 4 surviving; born in NJ
Bertha Denning 30 single;
born in NJ
William H. Lewis 47 Lodger; public
school teacher
Mary Elizabeth Lewis 47 Married
25 years, not children
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