Swarthmore, PA I (8/6/2020)

Thursday, August 6, 2020
Wow! A 16,000-step walking tour! The Swarthmore Borough Walking Tour includes the campus of Swarthmore College, where we began. The campus also contains Scott Arboretum.

In the Magnolia section is the Benjamin West House (1724), which
is the traditional birthplace of the renowned American artist

Archway at Bond Hall (1927, by Karchner & Smith
in cottage-like Cotswold style)

Worth Hall (1924, by Karchner & Smith in Cotswold style)

Bond and Worth Halls were connected, and were designed to
evoke the intimacy of an English village 

Asimina triloba/Paw Paw fruit (KSS)

"Biostream" has naturalistic plantings in and around
a rock-filled drainage bed which allows storm water
to be handled in a creative and responsible manner

Part of the Terry Shane Teaching Garden?

Definitely part of the Teaching Garden (KSS)

Rear of the Scott Arboretum Offices in the Cunningham House
(c 1888, in Victorian vernacular style, for the Math and Astronomy
Department Chair, Susan Cunningham)

Scott Arboretum was founded in 1929 as a memorial to Arthur Hoyt Scott, class of 1895, who became president of the Scott Paper Company (said to have invented the paper towel).

Entrance Garden at the front of the Arboretum offices

Angelica gigas/Korean Angelica (KSS)

Robinson House (1880, as a faculty residence)

Cherry Border

Lilac Collection was started in 1931

Swarthmore Friends Meetinghouse (1879)

5 Whittier Place (1925, by William Lightfoot Price in
Craftsman-inspired style, along with 3 Whittier Place)

540 Ogden Avenue (1892, in Arts & Crafts-inspired style)

540 Ogden Avenue incorporated an 1881 stone water tower of
the West Hill Land Company that developed this area

Swarthmore is serious about wearing masks in public - one woman who
was crossing the street into her driveway apologized for not wearing her mask

324 Cedar Lane/Courtney Smith House (1879 in Second Empire style)
has become the residence of the president of Swarthmore College

410 Cedar Lane (1895)

530 Cedar Lane/Maddock-Ogden House (1736) is an
example of a late 18C Pennsylvania farmhouse

405 Thayer Road (1929, by J Linerd Conarroe as part of
the Emmons Tract of Riverview Estates)

401 Thayer Road (1935, for Louis Cole Emmons who
developed this neighborhood)

150 Guernsey Road (1931)

407 N Swarthmore Avenue (1922, by W Pope Barney and
George Edwin Brumbaugh in Tudor Revival style)

401 N Swarthmore Avenue/Muleswood

401 N Swarthmore Avenue/Muleswood (1880)

307 Elm Avenue (1881 in Stick style)

Sometimes winter is a better season to look at historic houses in established neighborhoods, since we missed seeing a few homes due to extensive plantings and trees.

We lost our bearings when we crossed under the SEPTA railroad tracks on the west side of Chester Road, and would recommend you stay on the east side.

Michael's Corner (1925-1926, by Stuckert and Company
in Tudor style) was one of the first commercial buildings
in the Swarthmore business district

118 Park Avenue (1908, by William Cyril Stanton
in Mission style for the Swarthmore Women's Club)

120 Park Avenue (1905 in Queen Anne/Shingle style. restored 2002)
was home to the Ingleneuk Tea Room until a fire in 2000

Swarthmore United Methodist Church (1925, expanded 1963)

Attached to the north of the United Methodist Church is
the original 1893 Gothic church, now used as a chapel

United Methodist Church shows solidarity with "Black Lives Matter"

Next: Swarthmore, PA II.