Looking down garden at Germantown from near the bean patch, [Deshler-Morris House, 5442 Germantown Avenue]
Morris, Marriott Canby
1863-1948
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Graphic
Glass negatives
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PA. Philadelphia
September 17, 1885
1885
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1 photograph: glass negative; 4 x 5 in.
Glass negative showing a garden at the Deshler-Morris House at 5442 Germantown Avenue. A path lined with flowerbeds and shrubs runs across the left side of the grass. Trees and other shrubs form the outer border of the garden. 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
Gardens
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Germantown Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.)
5442
P.9895.754
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Marriott C. Morris Collection [P.9895.754]
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