This building housed the French and English Boarding and Day School
for Young Ladies and Little Girls, which was started in 1879 by sisters,
Mrs.Walter D.Comegy and Miss Jane Bell.  It moved from Summit Street
to this location in 1881.  The school was renamed "Springside" in 1901
and remained here until the move to the present location at the intersection
of Willow Grove Avenue and Cherokee Street in December 1957.  Land
for the present school (originally part of the front lawn of Druim Moir, the
Houston estate), was given by Dr. and Mrs. Henry P. Brown as a birthday
present to the school on its 75th anniversary.  The addition to the Norwood
Avenue school building was probably designed by Cope & Stewardson.  
Modern doctor's offices and a parking lot are on the site presently.

See Hotchkin, "Germantown, Mount Airy, and Chestnut Hill," p. 455.
See Keels and Jarvis, "Chestnut Hill", p. 91.
See Jarvis, "Chestnut Hill Revisited," pps. 62 and 63. 
See "Springside School 1879-1979 One Hundred Years of Tradition
and Change," pps. 10 and 11.