8831 Crefeld Street

(photograph from Chestnut Hill Historical Society-John Naylor Collection: 1970.50)

MAP NUMBER: 27
DATE: 1889
ORIGINAL OWNER: Lydia C. Middleton
ARCHITECT: Constable Brothers & T. Mellon Rogers
CONTRACTOR: Georges S. Roth

This house is located at the corner of Laughlin Lane.  Edgar V. Seeler,
architect, designed extensive alterations in 1905 for William Penn Troth. 
In 1921, Peter Kuhn, architect, further altered the house for William J. McGlinn.
This is another example of the metamorphism of a house from Victorian to a
totally different style in a relatively short time period.