8019-8025 Seminole Avenue
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(photograph from Chestnut Hill Historical Society-John Naylor Collection: 1970.116)
MAP NUMBER: 62
DATE: 1887-1888
ORIGINAL OWNER: Henry D. Welsh
ARCHITECT: G.W. and W.D. Hewitt
CONTRACTOR: Unknown
DEMOLISHED: 1920s
The "Welsh House" was located approximately between
8019-8025
Seminole Avenue, the northeast corner of W. Willow Grove Avenue
and Seminole. The
1887 date stone still exists in the wall between
8029 and 8031. The towers can be seen from another Chestnut
Hill Historical Society photograph (1995.463) of Casey's Ice Pond
looking north toward Seminole. Henry D. Welsh was a partner
to
Henry H. Houston and was the president of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
See Keels and Jarvis, "Chestnut Hill,'" p.
57.