Proposed addition to porches for Restaurant Building at Alden Park, School Lane & Wissahickon Ave., Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa., 21st Ward [graphic] / Edwyn Rorke, A.I.A., registered architect.

Format:

Image

Author/Creator:

Rorke, Edwyn G., 1890-1960.

Contributor:

Hutton, Addison, 1834-1916.

Jones, Lawrence E.

Strawbridge, Justus C. (Justus Clayton)

Visual Materials Collection (Athenaeum of Philadelphia)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

restaurants--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Apartment complexes--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

porches.

Wissahickon Ave. & School House Lane (Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Inn at Alden Park (Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Alden Park (Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.) Restaurant--1950.

Justus C. Strawbridge House (Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Torwoth (Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Local Subjects:

Wissahickon Ave. & School House Lane (Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Inn at Alden Park (Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Alden Park (Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.) Restaurant--1950.

Justus C. Strawbridge House (Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Torwoth (Germantown, Philadelphia, Pa.).

Physical Description:

4 drawings : pencil on paper ; 56 x 77 cm. or smaller

Place of Publication:

Jan. 4, 1950.

Notes:

Plot plan, floor plan, elevations & cross section.

Drawings have seal: Edwyn Rorke, registered architect, Pennsylvania, No. AE-528.

Location plan has "Lawrence E. Jones, President".

Richard Webster in Philadelphia preserved (1976) p.255 & 393 states that Alden Park is located on the former Justus C. Strawbridge (co-founder of Strawbridge & Clothier Department Store) estate, and that the Strawbridge house, 1885, built to an Addison Hutton design, serves as the restaurant. King's Philadelphia & notable Philadelphians (1902), p. 86, has a photo of this house, called "Torwoth", after the ancient Germantown Academy of this name.

Cited in:

Laverty, v.1, p.193, ROR*001/004