Fisher's Lane

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.