8760 Stenton Avenue

 

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(photograph from Chestnut Hill Historical Society-John Naylor Collection: 1970.82)

 

MAP NUMBER: 70
DATE: 1858
ORIGINAL OWNER: Benoni Lockwood
ARCHITECT: Unknown
CONTRACTOR: Unknown


Known as "Philista, " additions and alterations occurred in 1906
(Mantle Fielding, architect), 1911, 1919 (Willing & Sims, architects),
1921, 1922 (Mellor, Meigs & Howe, architects), 1924, 1926
(Arthur H. Brockie, architect), and 1935.  The house at 101
Newton Street (see Naylor photograph 1970.129) is in far right
background.  Stenton Avenue has been widened taking up much
of the lawn shown in the photo.

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