3612 Baring Street

The History of the Building

3610-12: “Circa 1875, {two-and-one-half story. Second Empire-style double with original Victorian wood porch and slate-shingled mansard. Four registers; stone facade over brick”

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

Previous Residents

1880:

Nathan Sellers 43 Miller

Mary K 36

Sidney K 15

Norman P 1 month

Hannah Mc Bride 24 Servant; born in Ireland

(ED 487, 18)

1881 Directory: Sellers, Nathan, flour

1900:

Jane Osborne 68 Widowed, seven children, six surviving; born in Ireland, immigrated in 1843; owns with a mortgage

Mary 40 Single; parents born in Ireland

Matilda 23 Single; parents born in Ireland

(ED 543, 8B)

1910:

Charles Platt 41 Doctor of medicine; born in N.J.

Mary Platt 41 Born in Ireland (English), immigrated 1891; married 18 years, no children

Bridget Brennan 28 Servant; born in Ireland (English)

(ED 492, 5B)

“PLATT, Charles, M. D., Ph.D., F. C. S.:

Physician: born in Montclair, N. J., March 16, 1869, of an old American family of founders and patriots, dating from 1638: was graduated from Lehigh University in 1890, and has pursued post-graduate course at Ohio University, Johns Hopkins University, University of Edinburgh (medalist in anatomy) . Homeopathic Hospital, London, Ecole de Medicine, Paris, and Hahnemann College of Philadelphia. Assistant chemist of Cambria Iron Company, Johnstown, Pa.; chief chemist for Thomas A. Edison at Llewellyn Park laboratory. Since 1894 Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology at Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital, Philadelphia; sometime lecturer at the Children's Homeopathic Hospital, Philadelphia. For some time associate editor of Science, New York. Author of text book of "Qualitative Analysis and Medical Chemistry," fourth edition. 1903. Contributor to the engineering, chemical and medical journals. Fellow of the Chemical Society of London: honorary Fellow of the Society of Biological Chemistry, London; member of the American Chemical Society, the Société Chimique de Paris, the Medical Jurisprudence Society, the Medical and Surgical Society of Philadelphia, and of numerous other medical and social organizations. Address, 3612 Baring St. Philadelphia, Pa.”

(Who’s Who in Pennsylvania, 1904, p 587.)

He married Moira T. O’Hare, S. Bethlehem in 1891. (abstracted from The Delta Upsilon Decennial Catalogue, 1903, 833)

[This doesn’t match up with his wife named in the 1910 census.]

In 1917, he was listed at Hamilton Court, 39^th and Chestnut. (Catalogue of Delta Upsilon, 1917)

1950 Directory: George M. Curry

Lawrence Shute

2009: current owner: Sheldon Schwartz, purchased: July 1999

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