8860 Germantown Avenue (near Laughlin Lane)

 

(photograph from Chestnut Hill Historical Society-John Naylor Collection: 1970.33)

MAP NUMBER: 43
DATE: probably in the 1860s
ORIGINAL OWNER: Mr. and Mrs. William Ernest Goodman
ARCHITECT: Unknown
CONTRACTOR: Unknown
DEMOLISHED: 1939

This Italianate-style house was built before 1876, probably in the 1860s. 
The Goodman's granddaughter, Joan Carnevali Wallick, related that her
parents lived here in the 1910s through about 1935, when it was deemed
to expenisve to heat.  She remembers being taken to see the vacant house
in 1937.  The two colonial-revival houses that now occupy this site were
built close to the road in 1936 (8840 Germnatown Avenue) and 1939
(8860 Germantown Avenue).  This house was demolished in 1939.

See Jarvis, "Chestnut Hill Revisited," p. 25.