[Deshler-Morris House, 5442 Germantown Avenue]
Morris, Marriott Canby
1863-1948
photographer
Deshler, David
architect
still image
Graphic
Lantern slides
pau
PA. Philadelphia
ca. 1890-ca. 1900
1890
1900
monographic
eng
1 photograph: glass transparency; 3 x 4 in.
Lantern slide showing the Deshler-Morris House at 5442 Germantown Avenue, a house with two chimneys and ivy climbing the walls. The house is surrounded by trees and a boy rides a bicycle on the sidewalk. The road in front of the house has trolley tracks running down the center. David Deshler built the original four-room summer cottage on this Germantown lot in 1752, adding the three-story front addition in 1772. The house was sold to Col. Isaac Franks in 1792 after Deshler’s death. President George Washington rented the home for the duration of the yellow fever epidemic of 1793 and the summer of 1794. Elliston and John Perot purchased the house in 1804, selling it to Elliston’s son-in-law Samuel B. Morris after his death in 1834. The house stayed in the possession of the Morris family for over a century, when Elliston P. Morris donated the house to the National Parks Service in 1948. The name was officially changed to the Germantown White House in 2009.
Forms part of Marriott C. Morris Collection.
Morris family
Homes and haunts
Deshler-Morris House (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Dwellings
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.)
5442
P.9895.2145
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department
Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.2145]
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