Bush Hill watercolor, 1848
Permanent ID:
4279
Call number:
K: II-63
Date:
1848
Inscription:
Bush Hill in 1848. This view was taken where 20th Street now is, between Spring Garden and Hamilton Street looking east, it was as that date an open common with a cart road over where 19th Street now is to the Small Pox Hospital which stood on the south side of Coats Street now opposite to Corinthian Avenue. The north portion of Mr. Isaac McCauleys Oil Cloth Factory stood 16 feet out on Spring Garden Street, this is the large building on the left. The house of which is seen the gable end over the woman in the red shawl was the country residence of William Hamilton Esq'r. in 1787. Mr. McCauleys residence in 1832 was a double two story Brick on the north side of Hamilton Street, the end of which is seen over the little Irish shanty. At this date an old two story double stone house stood on high ground where is now the intersection of Green & 15th Street surrounded by large old trees, it was called Dicky Wistars house fronted south east and the avenue of old trees reached to Broad & Spring Garden St. Hon. Eli K. Price lived in this house soon after his marriage. The tops of the trees seen in the extreme left of the above sketch are those around Dicky Wistars House. Sketched by D.J. Kennedy.
Address:
20th St., Philadelphia
Format:
Watercolors
