Ruins of Old Eastwick April 26, 2008
Posted by crd2 in Philadelphia, built environment.trackback
Posters on this site have left comments about idyllic days spent in pre-redevelopment Eastwick. These are some concrete remains of this anomalously interracial community: a church known recently as the St. Paul AME and a two story single-family home on the opposite sides of now-defunct 86th St. and Bartram Ave. Much of the grid system of pre-1950s Eastwick has been obliterated, the untended roads end abruptly or continue into abandoned lowland fields as rutted paths.
Both are located here:
[St. Paul AME Church -- in 1942 known as the Eastwick Church, built in 1928 by S.J. Jones]
[Builder's stone, St. Paul's AME]
[8608 Bartram Ave.]
More to come.
I have two items that might interest you both of which were on the “free cart” at the UCB library: (1) Mill Creek Redevelopment Area Plan 1954 and (2) Schuylkill River Park Center City Redevelopment Area 1964. Happy to mail them to you.
Hey Chris….it’s McCool, please forward me your email address I have a question about your website. Thanks.
michaelmccool@hotmail.com