Albertson, Henry, Subdivision Historic District

Lansdowne Borough's Henry Albertson Subdivision is a residential district of seventy-one single and twin houses built between 1884 and about 1940 on forty-three lots laid out from a 24-acre tract. Henry Albertson, a Quaker dry goods merchant, bought the land in 1883 with his wife Mary and built their own Queen Anne house in 1884, the first on the property. Construction peaked between about 1895 and 1905, when 61 percent of the houses were built. The district holds Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, and Tudor Revival houses, many with stone first stories, wood upper stories, and porches. Its buildings are regarded as unusually well preserved, with high integrity and only one non-contributing house. The district is significant as a clear example of a late nineteenth and early twentieth century suburban neighborhood near the railroad that developed with the growth of the borough.