View showing the guard house at Eaglesfield from under a brick arch. The estate was near the Girard Avenue Bridge in West Fairmount Park. Two men stand and sit on the small porch of the guard house adorned with lattice details. The country estate, Eaglesfield, possessed by numerous property owners, including Robert Egglesfield Griffith, Ann and James Greenleaf, and Richard Rundle, declined to obscurity following the completion of the new Fairmount dam in 1822, the mid-century construction of the Girard Avenue Railroad Bridge, and the development of Fairmount Park in the 1860s. The house was razed around 1869., Title from manuscript note on verso., Photographer's imprint in red text on mount., Manuscript note on verso: Mrs. Wm. B. Higgins, Yellow mount with rounded corners., Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012., Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Creator
Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Parks [P.9047.41]
