8410 Prospect Street

 

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(photograph from Chestnut Hill Historical Society-John Naylor Collection: 1970.68)

 

MAP NUMBER: 59
DATE: c. 1855
ORIGINAL OWNER: Cephas G. Childs
ARCHITECT: Unknown
CONTRACTOR: Unknown

In 1853, Cephas G. Childs bought ten acres of land around what
is now Prospect Street and relocated from 150 Bethlehem Pike
to 8410 Prospect in 1855.  In 1884, Joseph Patterson bought
the house from Childs for a summer residence and named it
"Grace Hill."  The house was enlarged c. 1888 (architect unknown).
The New York architect, Clayton Gardner Harris,  added the
two-story stone addition and porches to the Victorian Gothic villa
in 1904.  In 1926, Willing, Sims & Talbutt, architects,  altered the structure again.
This house is now clothed in stone. The corner of the lot was
subdivided and a modern house now stands at the corner of Gravers
Lane and Prospect Street.  To the left in the photograph is the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad line. 

See Jarvis, "Chestnut Hill Revisited,"  p. 97.

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