3809 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.”
(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 Residents
1900:
Kendall C. Sadler 35 Coal
dealer; born in Maryland; renting
Louisa Sadler 38 Married 16 years, 2 children; born in Delaware
Kendall C.
Sadler, Jr. 14 Born in Delaware
Maud Sadler 8 Born
in Delaware
Kendall C. Sadler and Louisa
Harrington were married about 1884. In 1910, Louise and the two children
lived at 3616 Baring St. Kendall C. Sadler, Sr. died at the Medico-Chirugical Hospital of a brain tumor in January, 1916.
Revised 5/7/2022