{"nrhp_refnum":"80003611","name":"Fisher's Lane","other_names":["East Logan St."],"category":"district","location":{"address":"E. Logan St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Philadelphia","county":"Philadelphia","state":"PA","lat":40.029465201500045,"lon":-75.16076919205446,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1980-02-20","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Community Planning and Development","Architecture","Social History"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A historic district of about eleven properties along both sides of East Logan Street (formerly Fisher's Lane) in Germantown, Philadelphia, extending from Hood Cemetery at its upper end to Wakefield Street and Stenton Avenue at its lower end. It is made up mainly of 19th-century stone, stucco and brick houses with a few outbuildings and ruins.","why_significant":"The street is regarded as a fine example of 19th-century urban development and an early suburban streetscape that has remained largely intact from its peak in the 1870s and 1880s. Its houses include the 1850s-1858 Italianate villa built for T. Charlton Henry, whose interiors retain Eastlake and stencilled decoration. The street also has early roots, following a route shown on an 1766 survey, and it was home to artist Joseph Pennell as a boy.","narrative":"East Logan Street in Germantown runs between Hood Cemetery and Stenton Avenue and holds about eleven properties of stone, stucco and brick houses, carriage houses and greenhouse ruins, mostly built from the 1850s through the 1880s. The earliest part of 39 East Logan Street may date to 1729, though most of the present fabric is 19th century. The house at 53 East Logan Street was built in the late 1850s for T. Charlton Henry, a Philadelphia financier and bank founder, as a large Italianate villa set back from the street. Its ground-floor interior keeps walnut woodwork, plaster cornices and stencilled decoration from the 1870s. Nearby houses at 69, 75 and 81 were built between 1860 and 1871 and kept their street elevations largely unchanged. The street is significant as an early suburban streetscape that survived intact from the period of its greatest development in the 1870s and 1880s, in contrast with the rowhouses that surround it.","period_of_significance":"1850-1899","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Italianate villa; Eastlake (interior vestibule)","criteria":[],"status_note":"Several properties are deteriorated or vacant, while others are owner-occupied or recently renovated.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:33.682952-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/80003611.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003611/5a9b1179a2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/80003611/5a9b1179a2-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fishers_Lane_Philly.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fishers_Lane_Philly.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71997242","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisher%27s_Lane","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5454728"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/philadelphia/fishers-lane-80003611/"}