3412 Baring
Street
3412
Baring as it was in the late 1980’s
3412-14:
“Circa 1865,
Italianate, three-story double with Circa 1905 Colonial Revival porch and
fluted pilasters on stone pedestals, dentillated cornice and dentillated
second-floor lintels. Third-floor windows are partially divided paired arcuated
windows. Overhanging flat roof; paired large ornate bracketsand smaller simpler
ones”
(Inventory of Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the
National Register of Historic Places, 1985)
The History
1870:
Sim[e]on Dillingham 55 Dentist;
b 20 May 1805
Mary [Elizabeth Raymond] Dillingham
50 b Oct 1819 in NY. d 17 May 1901
Egeston Dillingham 24 Commercial
merchant; born in 1845. [He died in 1878.]
Frank Dillingham 22 Commercial
merchant; 16 Jun 1846 in
Laura Kelton 20 b 7 Aug
1849
Albert Kelton 21 Son-in-law;
midshipman U.S.N.
Annie Dillingham 18 b 25 Dec 1851
Annie Kerwin 22 Servant;
born in
Sharlet Hackett 20 “Colored;”
[only in Nov. enumeration]
Josephine Robinson 25 “Colored;”
[only in Nov. enumeration]
(1st Enumeration: p 3-4; 2nd
Enumeration: p 28)
Not
present: Admiral Albert Caldwell Dillingham b 3 Jun 1848
In
Sept., 1862 to May, 1866, he was listed in the IRS Tax List at
In
1880, they lived at
Dillingham,
Albert C. Midshipman, 31 July, 1865. Graduated 7 June, 1870. Ensign, 13 July, 1871. Master, 4 June,
1874. Lieutenant, 14 December, 1880. Lieutenant Commander, 3 March, 1899.
(http://www.history.navy.mil/books/callahan/reg-usn-d.htm)
1880:
Coates Walton 58 Hardware
merchant
Mary R. Walton 48 Born in
Washington, D.C.
George S. Walton 23 Art student
Frank
Walton 21 Clerk
Julie Walton 18
Horace Walton 16
Elizabeth Walton 13
Coates Walton, Jr. 16
Juliet Walton 56 Sister
Eliza Brown 35 Servant;
black, born in
Mary E. Johns 18 Servant;
black, born in
1887 Directory: Bonsall, Elwood (Bonsall Bros.) & treas., 904
Filbert, h 3412 Baring
1891 Directory:
Hernz, Lewis, clerk
Sanders McSparran of Griest, Pownall &
In
1889, both L. M. Hernz and McSparran
lived at 3603
Baring St. In 1895, McSparren lived
at
Louis
Hernz was a civil engineer who was born in
1900:
Mark Dwight 47 Physician,
born in N.Y.
Anna M Dwight 46
Era Smith 15 Boarder;
in school
Lizzi Chambers 29 Servant; black,
born in
Henry Sheldon 23 Servant;
black, born in
1906 Blue Book: George W. Powell
1910:
George W. Powell 56 company
president
Grace Powell 55
Anna S. Powell 20
Ellen Graham 39 Servant
The
Powell’s had two other children who were deceased.
In
1890 City Directory, he is listed as a car builder at
In the 1900 census they we living at 411 N. 33rd
St. and he was a manufacturer of fencing.
1915, May 24: Obituary - “Simons. – On Monday, May 24, 1915,
Margaret Naudain Simons, widow of M. Laird Simons. Relatives and friends are invited to funeral
services... at the residence of her son, Laird H. Simons, 3412 Baring st.”
(Evening Public Ledger. May 26, 1915,
Night Extra, pg 12)
1920:
Laird H. Simons 45 Manufacturer,
“tanner & kids;” born in
Amelia A. Simons 37 Father born in
N.H., mother in R.I
Euretta Simons 5
Laird H. Simons, Jr. 2
Lottie M. Beach 43 Nurse for a
private families; parents born in
Katherine J. Sammon 27 Servant;
born in
(ED 682, 3A)
1921,
December: Deed transferred from Robert Steen (W. Austin Obdyke
- Trustee under Will of Robert Steen dec'd) to Laird H. Simons.
1930:
Laird H. Simons 56 Tanner; born
in
Amelia A. Simons 47 Married at age
30; father born in N.H., mother in R.I
Euretta Simons 15
Laird H. Simons, Jr. 12
(ED 396, 22A)
Link
to Google Books "The Story of Philadelphia" (featuring Laird Simons)
Recent Owners
Moriama
Family – late 1960s through late 1980s
Jim Murphy and
Family – late 1980s through 1998
Henry Pemberton
and Laura Marconi – 1998 through 2005
Jonathan Eells
and David Sims – 2005 through Present
revised:
7/24/2010