>From: "Eugene Glenn Stackhouse" <genestackhouse@yahoo.com> >Reply-To: Germantown@yahoogroups.com >To: Germantown@yahoogroups.com >Subject: [Germantown] House Numbers in Germantown >Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:38:02 -0000 > >HOUSE NUMBERS IN GERMANTOWNM MT. AIRY & CHESTNUT HILL >by Jefferson Moak, "Germantown Crier" A Publication of the >Germantown Historical Society >Volume 52, #1, Spring 2002 >Exerpt >"Prior to 1856/57, there was no break in the nubers to allow for >street crossings. In 1856, to be effective in 1857, the system of >the 00 block, 100 block, etc. took effect. ... >Generally, the entire city was renumbered under the Ordinance of >1856. However, two additional massive renumbering projects were >undertaken by the Board of Revision of Taxes in the late 19th >century. The first, in the early 1880s, involved Kensington in which >the present system was installed. The second occurred in the early >1890s in Germantown, Mt. Airy and Chestnut Hill." >From the published chart: > 1889 1899 >Berkley 4200 4600 >Wyalusing 4300 4700 >Loudon 4400 4800 >Logan 4436 4900 >Seymour 4500 5000 >Manheim 4552 5100 >Collum 4600 5141 >Ashmead 4615 5200 >Queen Lane 4650 5300 >Penn Street 4700 5322 >Coulter 4740 5400 >School House 4800 5500 >Maplewood 4834 5600 >Chelten 4900 5700 >Price 4932 5800 >Rittenhouse 5000 5900 >Harvey 5046 6000 >Walnut Lane 5100 6100 >Tulpehocken 5150 6200 >Washington Ln 5200 6300 >Johnson 5300 6400 >Upsal 5352 6500 >Sharpnack East 5400 6600 >Horter West 5426 6600 >Phil-Ellena East 5471 6700 >Westview West 5500 6700 >Pleasant 5539 6800 >Carpenter L.-Gorgas 5550 6900 >Sedgwick 5600 7000 >Mt. Pleasant 5640 7100 >Mt. Airy 5700 7200 >Allens Lane 5730 7300 >Gowen 5800 7400 > >The only known reconciliation of old and new numbers in Chestnut >Hill: > >Mermaid Lane 6000 7700 >Moreland Ave. 6050 7800 >Springfield Ave6100 7900 > >The odd and even sides had been reversed from what they are >today. > >Gene Stackhouse >Volunteer, Germantown Historical Society > > > > > >Yahoo! Groups Links > ><*> To visit your group on the web, go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Germantown/ > ><*> Your email settings: > Individual Email | Traditional > ><*> To change settings online go to: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Germantown/join > (Yahoo! ID required) > ><*> To change settings via email: > mailto:Germantown-digest@yahoogroups.com > mailto:Germantown-fullfeatured@yahoogroups.com > ><*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > Germantown-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com > ><*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: > http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/ >