3807 Baring Street
The
History of the Building
3807-09
was built by E. E. Baldwin in 1891.
“LOOK! LOOK! At the new modern, side yard dwellings,
3807-09 Baring street. Notice the
difference in work and material to other houses recently built. No skylights in dining rooms, but large bay
windows instead; no long back alleys; large front porches and back yards;
Filbert’s patent pavement; finest tiled bath rooms ever seen, butler’s pantry,
with hot and cold water, plenty of closets [i.e., cabinets]; steel plate French
ranges; two heaters; cemented cellars;
incandescent electric and gas for lighting; wardrobes in second and
third floor front rooms; all French plate glass in fronts; no carpets laid to
cover bad floors; first and second stories furnished in hard wood, old colonial
style [i.e., parallel boards]; all done by day’s work, no cheap contract work;
plumbing guaranteed for three years. If
you never have seen a first-class modern house, you are specially invited to
look through the houses. You may buy
when you see them and learn the price.
E. E. Baldwin, Builder.
on
the premises.”
(Phila. Inquirer, Nov. 21 and 23, 1891)
3805
& 3807-09: “Single and double… Victorian brick three-story houses. Original
porches with posts of 3805 substituted with iron, entry gable of 3807-09 filled
in. Pressed brick detail; elaborate pressed metal cornices.”
(Inventory of
Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the National Register of Historic
Places, 1985)
Previous
1900:
John DuBois 62 Bookkeeper; born in N.J.; renting
Hannah DuBois 59 Married
36 years, 6 children, 4 surviving; born in N.J.
B. Frank DuBois 34 Bookkeeper
Wilfred M. DuBois
32 Ice
cream manufacturer
Minnie L. DuBois 20 Stenographer
— 2nd
household
George E.
Montague 48 Salesman; born in Mass.
Carrie E.
Montague 37 Married 12 years, no children; born in N.Y.
In 1870, they lived in Bloody Run,
Bedford Co., Pa. In 1880, they lived in Everett, Bedford Co., Pa. John was a banker and Hannah was a “fancy
goods merchant.” Hannah’s father, John
Bee, and sister, Annie M. Bee, lived with them as did John’s mother, Rachel. Frank was Benjamin Franklin DuBois.
Revised 5/7/2022