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Sadly, the Town decided to tear this old historic building down shortly after Sandy hit in the fall of 2012. It was supposed to be demolished before the storm but a lawsuit by a resident across from the Pavilion slowed the demo by a few months. It was not destroyed by the storm, in fact it held up very well, better than South End Pavilion.
There is no need for wmacre to be offended. This site should be flagged impressive, not offensive. The TIROS tracking site is an international historic site. Thanks to satellite based hurricane developed by Camp Evans engineers with RCA and NASA tens of thousands of persons of all races, creeds and national origins do not needlessly die every years since 1960. Before that time hurricanes would hit without warning. On this same site in 1946 Camp Evans engineers working on Project Diana began space communications by bouncing a radar signal off the moon. One of the engineers was Walter McAfee, an exceptional American with African Heritage. President Eisenhower would personally award Mr. McAfee a scholarship to Harvard University. As a Ph.D in astro-physics Dr. McAfee was a respected division head and an effective leader. Given these events this is not just another place on the map and therefore should not be removed. If you would use your imagination to think of things other than cross burnings, imagine how many more persons would have died in New Orleans without satellite based hurricane tracking. Now imagine a site, up the road from the TIROS/Diana site, at which during WW2 men, women -persons of all races and creeds worked together with the common goal of defeating the Axis powers to save democracy. The day WWII ended the site and the invention - radar it would further develop - would be cited as "a major reason for victory". Yes, in the 1920s the KKK rented some of those same buildings. The later triumphs over shadows their short time there. In a way it shows how much better things are now. So, forget about those guys. They are all dead and they did nothing of note or value. Let the memory of them die too.
Henry Percy Heald graduated from the Univ. of Penna. School of Architecture in 1895. Tens years later, when he wanted to build his home on the Albertson tract, he chose not to design it himself. Instead he chose as his architect his U of P classmate and Lansdowne resident, Oscar Mons Hokanson.
Dr. Robert Harris started construction on this dam and the nearby mill buildings (located to the left and out of this picture) in the spring of 1776. This mill was built with the goal of supplying Gen. Washington with 1 ton of gun powder per week. For the period up to the fall of 1777, Dr. Harris' mill supplied about 50% of Gen. Washington's needs.
Missing its cab, covered with red primer, brown rust and green moss, this steam age relic patiently sits waiting for restoration... or some other fate.
Based on a design by Philadelphia's foremost architect, Frank Furness, the Wallingford Train Station was built in 1890. Noted Shakespearian scholar and Frank Furness' brother, Dr. Horace Furness' 80 acre estate was situated on the other side of the tracks from this station.
Thanks for the compliment. I used to live 2 blocks away and saw the house every day. Its an important structure but doesn't have the anywhere near the recogintion of the other historic places in town.
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Sadly, the Town decided to tear this old historic building down shortly after Sandy hit in the fall of 2012. It was supposed to be demolished before the storm but a lawsuit by a resident across from the Pavilion slowed the demo by a few months. It was not destroyed by the storm, in fact it held up very well, better than South End Pavilion.
There is no need for wmacre to be offended. This site should be flagged impressive, not offensive. The TIROS tracking site is an international historic site. Thanks to satellite based hurricane developed by Camp Evans engineers with RCA and NASA tens of thousands of persons of all races, creeds and national origins do not needlessly die every years since 1960. Before that time hurricanes would hit without warning. On this same site in 1946 Camp Evans engineers working on Project Diana began space communications by bouncing a radar signal off the moon. One of the engineers was Walter McAfee, an exceptional American with African Heritage. President Eisenhower would personally award Mr. McAfee a scholarship to Harvard University. As a Ph.D in astro-physics Dr. McAfee was a respected division head and an effective leader. Given these events this is not just another place on the map and therefore should not be removed. If you would use your imagination to think of things other than cross burnings, imagine how many more persons would have died in New Orleans without satellite based hurricane tracking. Now imagine a site, up the road from the TIROS/Diana site, at which during WW2 men, women -persons of all races and creeds worked together with the common goal of defeating the Axis powers to save democracy. The day WWII ended the site and the invention - radar it would further develop - would be cited as "a major reason for victory". Yes, in the 1920s the KKK rented some of those same buildings. The later triumphs over shadows their short time there. In a way it shows how much better things are now. So, forget about those guys. They are all dead and they did nothing of note or value. Let the memory of them die too.
Henry Percy Heald graduated from the Univ. of Penna. School of Architecture in 1895. Tens years later, when he wanted to build his home on the Albertson tract, he chose not to design it himself. Instead he chose as his architect his U of P classmate and Lansdowne resident, Oscar Mons Hokanson.
Dr. Robert Harris started construction on this dam and the nearby mill buildings (located to the left and out of this picture) in the spring of 1776. This mill was built with the goal of supplying Gen. Washington with 1 ton of gun powder per week. For the period up to the fall of 1777, Dr. Harris' mill supplied about 50% of Gen. Washington's needs.
Missing its cab, covered with red primer, brown rust and green moss, this steam age relic patiently sits waiting for restoration... or some other fate.
Based on a design by Philadelphia's foremost architect, Frank Furness, the Wallingford Train Station was built in 1890. Noted Shakespearian scholar and Frank Furness' brother, Dr. Horace Furness' 80 acre estate was situated on the other side of the tracks from this station.
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Thanks for the compliment. I used to live 2 blocks away and saw the house every day. Its an important structure but doesn't have the anywhere near the recogintion of the other historic places in town.