The house inspection was supposed to take place Tuesday, but it's been postponed. Some problems with turning on the utilities. Hopefully it will be rectified quickly and I'll be able to get it inspected next week. In the interim I've been doing research on old houses in general and my house in particular.
It started with me trying find some pictures of Brewerytown in its heyday. I thought a small collection of sepia toned photos would be a nice decorative touch. Then I tried to determine the age of the house. The real estate listing gave an approximate age of 75 years. That would mean it was built in the 1930s. But Brewerytown boomed in the late 1800s so it could be as much as 60 years older. Yes, I know I can get that information from the title search but I'm impatient. So I start searching and low and behold...
The pictures, dated 1949, are from the Philadelphia Department of Records. My house is to the immediate right of the 3-story house. My. Actual. House. How cool is that? So now I'm on a mission to learn all I can about the house and the neighborhood. Here are two helpful tools for researching people and places in Phila.
