This house on Washington Street at the foot of Gardner Path was one of 25 Blake Park houses designed by Royal Barry Wills and built by Maurice Dunlavy, whose own Wills-designed house was behind it on Weybridge Lane. 490 Washington Street was home…
Year Built: Permit Date:
1928 4/20/1928
Architect:
Royal Barry Wills
Builder:
Maurice A. Dunlavy
Cost to Build:
$15,000
Owner (On Permit Date):
Maurice A. Dunlavy
First Residents:
The Harrington Family
This house, like all of the…
The origins of the building now known as 8-10 Lowell Road are not entirely clear, but the best evidence indicates it was once the carriage barn of the family of Mary and Robert Sharp Davis on Cypress Place (now Stanton Road.) In the 1897 map at…
Year Built:Permit Date:
192711/28/1927
Architect:
Royal Barry Wills
Builder:
Maurice A. Dunlavy
Cost to Build:
$14,000
Owner (On Permit Date):
Maurice A. Dunlavy
First Residents:
Virginia & Francis Snow
This house, like all of the…
Year Built:
1910
Architect:
Thorndike & Kiesling
Builder:
Burton W. Neal
Cost to Build:
N/A
Owner (On Permit Date):
Mrs. Arthur W. Blake
First Residents:
N/A
The origins of 12-14 Lowell Road, like those of its neighbor at 8-10…
Year Built:
1910
Architect:
Thorndike & Kiesling
Builder:
Burton W. Neal
Cost to Build:
N/A
Owner (On Permit Date):
Mrs. Arthur W. Blake
First Residents:
N/A
14 Lowell Road is in the same house as 12 Lowell. See 12 Lowell Road for…
Philip Drinker (1894-1972) the co-inventor of the iron lung, was a professor of industrial hygiene at the Harvard School of Public Health. Son of a former president of Lehigh University, Drinker graduated from Lehigh in 1917 and began teaching at…
Year Built:
1854-1856
First Resident at this Address:
Abbie L. Paige and Thomas & Mary O'Connor
One of a handful of pre-1900 buildings in Blake Park, this house was originally the carriage house of the Robert Sharp Davis house that is now 50…
Year Built:Permit Date:
19282/21/1928
Architect:
Royal Barry Wills
Builder:
Maurice A. Dunlavy
Cost to Build:
$15,000
Owner (On Permit Date):
Maurice A. Dunlavy
First Residents:
Francis C. & Margaret W. Rogerson
This house, like all of the…
Year Built: Permit Date:
1929 4/6/1929
Architect:
Royal Barry Wills
Builder:
Maurice A. Dunlavy
Cost to Build:
$20,000
Owner (On Permit Date):
W.H. Haker, 50 Marshall Street
First Residents:
Walter & Maude Haker
This house, like all…