3620 Baring Street

The History of the Building

3620-22: “Circa 1870, two-and-one-half story, Second Empire-style double house, cruciform plan, with side porches and entrances in cross
arms. First-floor projecting bays; double-bracket cornice; asphalt-shingled mansard with two dormers; stone facade over brick”

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

Previous Residents

1870: 3620 Baring

Josiah (Rhinehart) Sypher 38 Journalist

Alice 27

John 5

Howard 1

Mary Maxwell 40 Real estate: $18,000; property: $1,500.

Rose Muntz 25 Domestic servant; born in Württemberg

(1^st Enumeration: p 14; 2^nd Enumeration: pp 28-29)

SYPHER, Josiah Rhinehart, journalist, born in Liverpool, Perry County, Pennsylvania, 12 April, 1832. He was graduated at Union college in 1858, and, after making a tour of the United States, studied law and was admitted to the bar at Lancaster, Pennsylvania, in 1862. While he was travelling he contributed to the Lancaster Express, and he was its associate editor while studying law. In 1862 he was engaged as war-correspondent of the New York Tribune, and he was afterward in charge of the correspondence in the Army of the Potomac. In the winter of 1865 he became associate editor of the Tribune, and in 1870 he established the Pennsylvania State Journal at Harrisburg, but at the end of six months he resumed the practice of law in Philadelphia. He has advocated public education and temperance reform, and, in addition to articles for the press and several school-books, has published History of the Pennsylvania Reserve Corps (Lancaster, 1865), and School History of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, 1868).”

(Virtual American Biographies, Edited Appletons Encyclopedia, 2001.)

1880:

Elinor Zook 77

Mary E. Zook 50

Thaddius S. Zook 42 Lawyer

Ellen E. Zook 39 Physician

A. E. Stephens 69 Boarder; merchant

Lizzie Mathews 35 Servant; black; born in Del.

(ED 487, 9A)

Elinor was the widow of David Zook (1791-1864). They had 9 children. Ellen Zook was an obstetrician who worked at the Mission Hospital and Dispensary for Women and Children- (1875), No. 612 S. 10th St. She died in 1884. In 1870, the family lived in Upper Merion.

1887 Directory: Hahn, W. Piper, dentist, 3715 Lancaster av

1890 Directory: Ellen S. Zook

Thaddeus S. Zook

1896 Directory: Mrs. David Zook

Thaddeus Zook

1900:

Elinor S Zook 97 Widowed, 3 children [sic]; owned with a mortgage

Elizabeth M Zook 74

Mary E Zook 70

Thaddeus Zook 62 Lawyer

(ED 543, 8A-B)

1910:

Elizabeth M Zook 84 Single; owner with a mortgage

Mary E Zook 80 Sister; single

Thaddeus S Zook 72 Brother; single; lawyer

(ED 492, 5B)

1920:

Frank Houston 37 Theater manager; father born in Scotland; owner with a mortgage

Bettie Houston 38

Anna Mary Houston 14

Elizabeth Houston 8

Mary E Hamner 28 Lodger; clerk for telephone co.; mother born in Scotland

Hannah S Hamner 35 Lodger; clerk in a printing house

Arthur Middleton 29 Lodger; sales agent for telephone co.

May Middleton 24 Lodger; telegraph operator; born in Texas

Alice E Rahn 50 Lodger; music teacher; father born in Russia, mother in Germany

(ED 686, 5A)

In 1930, Frank Houston lived at 3707 Hamilton St.

1927 Telephone Directory: F. J. Hogan

E. M. Paye.

1950 Directory: Francis A. O'Hanlon

Herbert Whitehouse

1961: Jacob Getz

David Hays

(“New members of Powelton Neighbors” Powelton Post, Feb., 1961)

2009: owners: Bajendra and Shamsher B. Tandon

purchase date: 5/1979

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