When researching some dates for the last post, I came across two more West Chester walking tours, which did not show up when I Googled "West Chester walking tours!"
So here we go again!
Back in Marshall Square Park, which has a Pennsylvania State Champion Tree - this Fraxinus quadrangulata/Blue Ash (KSS) |
This neighborhood was full of University of Georgia flags and banners that we learned are displayed in support of a local 23-year old woman, named Georgia, who has bile duct cancer |
Umm, what season is it? |
7 E Virginia Ave (1903) has a block-long property that is 0.2 miles from downtown |
101 W Virginia Avenue (1870) was built for Thomas Marshall, president of the National Bank of Chester County |
121 W Virginia Avenue (1870 with Gothic elements) was built for dry goods merchant Samuel Parker |
Hitching post (KSS) |
205 W Virginia Avenue (1875, in Second Empire style) was built for an attorney, Robert T Cornwell |
221 W Virginia Avenue (1870 in Second Empire style) was built for attorney William B Waddell |
415 N Church Street/West Chester Library (1888, by T Roney Williamson in Queen Anne style) (KSS) |
Note the words "Public Library" on the turret |
All the buckling brick sidewalks made walking tricky |
320 N Church Street/Swedenborg Foundation (c 1760-1773, as a farmhouse, remodeled after 1935 with Colonial Revival features) |
21 W Washington Street/Washington Square (1917, as Biddle Street School, using bricks from the previous West Chester High School on this site) is now apartments (KSS) |
221-231 N Church Street is a row of duplexes, two constructed with fieldstone |
206 N Church Street/Former synagogue of Kesher Israel Congregation (1925) is now the Eagles Home of West Chester, a private social club with restaurant and bar |
116 W Gay Street/Taylor Music Store (founded in 1929) has a "keyboard awning" |
W Gay Street between N Church and N Darlington Streets; not as busy as on a Saturday! |
233 W Gay Street/St Agnes Church (1925, in Neo-Gothic style) is on the site of the 1793 church, the first church in West Chester |
Modern fountain at 44 W Gay Street |
30 N Church Street/First West Chester Fire Company (1888, by T Roney Williamson in Queen Anne style) |
The door to the former firehouse, now a restaurant |
1 N Church Street/Peter & Mary Rush's Grocery Store (1825) reflects the typical family-owned market of the 19C |
A horse-themed planter (KSS) |
101 S Church Street/Judge Thomas Bell House (c 1829, attributed to Thomas U Walter) has lost its brass rail at the steps |
121 W Miner Street/Everhart Mansion (1830, for the entrepreneur and real estate mogul William Everhart) |
Everhart Mansion wrought-iron porch columns (KSS) |
130 W Miner Street/First Presbyterian Church (1834, by Thomas U Walter in Greek Revival style, on land donated by William Everhart) is the oldest extant church in West Chester |
15 S High Street/Old Borough Hall (1912) |
11-13 S High Street/Buckwalter Building (1893, by John M Dickey in Romantic Medieval/Late Gothic style) |
2 W Market Street/Farmers & Mechanics Building (1908, by William C Pritchett in Beaux-Arts style) is considered to be the first and only skyscraper in town |
13-15 N High Street/Smith-Sharpless-Darlington Building (1789, in Federal style) is where William Darlington served as president of the First Bank of Chester County |
Remember the relief panels on 10 N High Street? At the top are a male and female settler with a Native American |
Next are Anthony Wayne, George Washington, and the Marquis de Lafayette |
17 N High Street/Former First Bank of Chester County (that we saw on Saturday), doorway (KSS) |
15 E Gay Street/Insurance Building (1905, in Beaux-Arts style) |
17 E Gay Street (1905?, Brutalist style) |
101 E Gay Street/United States Post Office was also seen on Saturday but today we note the random Brandywine Blue stones among the Cockeysville Marble stones |
3 W Gay Street/Former Woolworth's Store (1928) is now an Iron Hill Brewery restaurant |
120 N High Street/Former Warner Theatre (1930) is now Hotel Warner that kept the original staircase in the lobby |
104-116 E Washington Street/Simon Barnard Row (1875, in Federal style); one of these was rented by Buffalo Bill Cody for a winter in the 1870s |
309 N Franklin Street (1880, in Victorian style) |
2 comments:
So great to find this info. I’m Captain Robert T Cornwell’s Great Great Granddaughter. 205 W Virginia in West Chester was his home.
Just happened upon this site. Was lovely seeing the pictures along with information I would not have known about. I grew up on N.Church Street in the 60s and early 70s, as my father owned a business on Church. Both parents are from West Chester as well. Beautiful town, different now, thriving, but not the same. Miss the old stores, newspaper, shoe, sewing store, Mostellers, and the drug stores, Foulk, that you could sit and get a real cherry coke and sit with friends. Most people are not from West Chester anymore and it's seems to have become a more nose up in the air town. Sorry, but true......
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