Fisher's Lane


Fisher's Lane
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
39 E. Logan Street in the Fisher's Lane Historic District, June 2010
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Location	E. Logan St., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Coordinates	40°1′46″N 75°9′40″W / 40.02944°N 75.16111°W / 40.02944; -75.16111Coordinates: 40°1′46″N 75°9′40″W / 40.02944°N 75.16111°W / 40.02944; -75.16111
Area	5 acres (2.0 ha)
Architect	Multiple
Architectural style	Second Empire, Italianate
NRHP Reference #	80003611^[1]
Added to NRHP	February 20, 1980

Fisher's Lane is a national historic district located on East Logan Street in the Wister neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The district includes 12 contributing buildings and 3 contributing structures in a residential section of Wister. The houses are representative of the Second Empire and Italianate-styles of architecture.

Specific properties include those at numbers 39, 53, 69, 75, and 81 on the northwest side of East Logan Street and 48, 62, 76, 82, and 90-92 on the southeast side. The artist Joseph Pennell lived at 75 East Logan as a teenager. One of his early works depicting "the ugly house across the street" won a prize in a school art show, presented to him by the state.^[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.^[1]

References

1 2 National Park Service (2010-07-09). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
↑ Ortega, Richard I. (1979). "Fisher's Lane" (PDF). National Register of Historic Places Nomination Form. Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Retrieved January 5, 2014.

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