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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR "Pennsylvania NATIONAL PARK SERVICE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Philadelphia PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM FOR NFS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER I/O (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) z a Germantown AND/°..RH '5TOF" C: Colonial Germantown Historic District i- u STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: Germantown COUN TY: Pennsylvania 42 Philadelphia ULL K REFERENCE •HOTO CREDIT: Patricia Heintzelman DATE OF PHOTO: AugUSt 1974 IU NEGATIVE FILED AT: 1LI Historic Sites Survey, NPS DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. View of 20th century housing along Germantown Avenue looking South from Upsal Street. GPO 9 21-737 n li 4 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Pennsylvania NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Philadelphia PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY ENTRY NUMBER (Type all entries - attach to or enclose with photograph) Germantown AND/OR HISTORIC: Colonial. Germantown.^His.t.gr.ic District STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: Germantown Pennsylvania 42 Philadelphia HLL 'HOTO CRED1 T: Patricia Heintzelman DATE OF PHOTO: August 1974 NEGATIVE FILED AT: Historic Sites Survey, NPS DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. Looking north from below Upsal Street—View of Billmeyer House--6504 Germantown Avenue, and the Bardsley House, 6j?00 Ciermantown Avenue. GPO 9 21-737 UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Pennsylvania NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES Philadelphia PROPERTY PHOTOGRAPH FORM FOR NPS USE ONLY (Type all entries - attach to of enclose with photograph) ENTRY NUMBER COMMON: Germantown AND/OR HISTORIC: Colonial Germantown Historic District u STREET AND NUMBER: CITY OR TOWN: Germantown Pennsylvania 42 Philadelphia 101 |||P H ,QT 0 R E F E R E N C E >HOTO CREDIT: Patricia Heintzelman DATE OF PHOTO: AUgUSt 1974 tu NEGATIVE FILED AT:: . Historic Sites Survey, NPS HI DESCRIBE VIEW, DIRECTION, ETC. View down Germantown Avenue from above Harvey Street looking east showing commercial blight. , i . NFS Photo 1964 The Naglee House, 4518 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsvlv.ania MR *>'' «li *PM ^ HI uniil] I r Loudoun, 4650 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. NFS Photo 1964 ^iffi* mI*J IN ni ;sril 1 -••» i/ Grumblethorpe, 5267 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania NFS Photo 1964 Wyck, 6026 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania NPS Photo 1964 -j4c "/. v7 '•5t £%£. ^4 I Ml The Johnson House, 6306 Germantown Avenue, Ohiladelphia, Pennsylvania NPS Photo 1964 The Concord School, 6313 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania NPS Photo 1964 Cliveden, 6401 Germantown Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania NFS Photo 1964 Upsala, *6430 Germantown Avenue, j^niladelphia, Pennsylvania NFS Photo.

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