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Wissahickon Inn, Germantown

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Item No: pdcc01197
Title: Wissahickon Inn, Germantown
Historic Street Address: 500 Willow Grove Avenue
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

Postcard view of the Wissahickon Inn, a 250-room resort hotel built in 1884 by industrialist Henry H. Houston. Since 1898 the inn has served Chestnut Hill Academy (founded 1850), which acquired ownership in 1940.


Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.195006
Geocode Latitude:40.076449

Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.11
Creator Name: Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler