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1881–1893, Francis L. Price and William L. Price, and others. Principally Eagle and Radnor rds., Willow and Poplar aves.
  • North Wayne (© George E. Thomas)
  • Wayne Station (© George E. Thomas)

London's Bedford Park established the idea of a planned bedroom suburb. In the Philadelphia region, banker A. J. Drexel and his business partner and publisher George W. Childs brought together capital and the capacity to finance and create a suburb at Wayne Station (1881, Wilson Brothers) on the Pennsylvania Railroad. Builders Herman Wendell and Monroe Smith, who had been active in West Philadelphia, commissioned the Price brothers, both trained in Frank Furness's office, to design a decorative real estate office (demolished) as well as a half-dozen model houses whose names—“Bruin Lodge,” “Pillar House,” “Tower House,” and “Flemish House”—were calculated to stimulate desire. Houses occupy small lots with front, side, and rear yards on tree-lined streets, share a common palette of materials—local stone and shingle—and are shaped with windows that convey function in ways that recall Furness's own house “Idlewild” ( DE25).

Writing Credits

Author: 
George E. Thomas
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What's Nearby

Cabrini College (“Woodcrest,” James W. Paul, John and Edna Dorrance House)
“Chanticleer,” Adolph Rosengarten House
Christ Church, Ithan
Radnor Friends Meetinghouse
“Ardrossan,” Robert L. Montgomery Estate

Citation

George E. Thomas, "North Wayne", [Wayne, Pennsylvania], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/PA-02-DE46.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of PA vol 2

Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania, George E. Thomas, with Patricia Likos Ricci, Richard J. Webster, Lawrence M. Newman, Robert Janosov, and Bruce Thomas. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2012, 236-236.

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