3414 Powelton Avenue

 

The History of the Building

 

3404-18: ÒCirca 1875, two-and-one-half story mansarded Victorian double houses; smooth cut ashlar' granite facades over brick construction. Full-height first floor windows except on 3412 where they are partially filled in; arched doorways with incised brownstone lintels and surrounds. Second floor windows have incised brownstone lintels and sills; double bracketed wood cornice. Most of the mansarded roofs have their original slate shingles. Four gabled dormers with batten-and- board faces project from the mansards, except for 3412, which has only three, with scalloped red clay shingles. Pent roofs added.Ó

(Inventory of Buildings in Powelton from the application submitted to the National Register of Historic Places, 1985)

 

Previous Residents

1880:

William C. Peirce         34        Stock broker; father born in N.H., mother in Md.

Kate S. Peirce              27        Born in N.Y., father born in Prussia, mother in N.Y.

May Peirce                     5

Hellen Peirce                 1

Ñ 2nd household

John M. Child              32        Boarder; teacher; mother born in N.J.

Catherine Child           34        Born in N.Y., father born in Scotland, mother in N.Y.

John A. Child                 1

Rachel Gibbe               20        Servant; black; born in Del., father born in Md., mother in Del.

Jane Pierce                   23        Servant; black; born in S.C.

(ED 483, 20)

 

1881 Directory: Peirce William C., broker, 136 S. 3rd

 

1900:

Mary Sunderland                     33        Single; father born in England

(ED 578, 9B)

 

1910:

Thomas T. Sunderland            44        Building contractor; divorced; father born in England; owns free of a mortgage

Mary Sunderland                     47        Sister; single; own income

Laimes P. Sunderland              45        Sister; single; own income

(ED 533 pg. 1A)

 

1927 Directory: Miss L. Sunderland

 

1930:

Earl R Dalton              38        Federal officer, U. S. government; married at age 19; father born in Mass.; renting for $100 per month

Ella M Dalton             36        Married at age 17

Robert Dalton             18        File clerk in a law office

Earl Dalton                 16        Shipping clerk

Harold O Dalton         14

James H Dalton             7

Hebert R Dalton            5

George Hendricks       21        Brother-in-law; clerk for chemical laboratories; mother born in Germany

(ED 397, 4B)

 

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