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On March 12, 1859, they rented a house at 6719 Germantown Ave in Mt. Airy, Philadelphia. Sister Louise Marthens came with four orphaned girls from the Passavant home in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to help get the home in Germantown off the ground. Within eight weeks seven orphans and a matron had been admitted to live in the home. [1]
Hempfield Township is a township in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States.The population was 41,585 at the 2020 census, [3] making it the largest suburb in the Pittsburgh Metropolitan Area by population.
Baptist Institute for Christian Workers (also known as Crown Nursing Home and now known as Snyder House) is a historic building 1427 Snyder Avenue in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, which has been used for several purposes and currently is a rehabilitation facility for veterans.
Elizabeth Fry Ashmead Schaeffer (E.F.A. Schaeffer) (February 16, 1812 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – November 2, 1892 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), was the founder of the Lutheran Home at Germantown for Orphans and an active leader of many ministries of
The district encompasses nine contributing buildings. They are an assemblage of low-scale, Tudor Revival style structures built between 1917 and 1932. It includes the Mother Goose Cottage (1917-1920), Red Gables Cottage (1917-1920), Stork Hill (1918), Thistle Cottage (1917-1920), Upper Beech Cottage (c. 1930), Lower Beech Cottage (c. 1930), Beech Branch Cottage (c. 1930), a garage (1917-1920 ...
The complex consists of three interconnected and three independent buildings built between 1918 and 1939, built originally for use as an orphanage for Polish children. Chapel Boiler building. They are the Spanish Revival style boys dormitory (1918), Holy Child chapel (1939), laundry / boiler building, and rectory and garage. The facility closed ...
For nearly a century, South Greensburg's largest employer was Walworth Valves. This factory began in 1888, as the Kelly & Jones Company (John T. Kelly and George M. Jones), and Huff was a member of their board of directors. [6]
The USPS does not officially correlate neighborhood names to Philadelphia ZIP Codes, each of which is called "Philadelphia" or "Phila". [1] However, the 19119 ZIP code is almost entirely coterminous with the cultural-consensus boundaries of Mount Airy. [2] [3] [4] There is no official boundary between Mount Airy and Germantown.