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(Photo by Richard F. Hope)
Italianate Residence (220 Bushkill Street)
3-story “Italianate” style brick house,[1] with roofed stoop.
Built on part of original town Lot No.49 as surveyed by William Parsons when he established Easton in 1752. This Lot was formally sold by the Penn Family to Jacob Smith in 1807.[2]
Said to have been built c.1857.[3]
In 1874, with the inauguration of the modern street numbering scheme, this address was assigned to the residence of William Wilson.[4]
In 1890, 222 Bushkill Street was the residence of Matilda Reichard, while 224 Bushkill Street was the residence of agent Charles H. Riegel and his family.[5] These may have been apartments located within this building.
In 1900, 220 Bushkill Street was the residence of Frank E. Wilson.[6] By 1910, and again in 1920, it was the residence of Martha M. Wilson and her family.[7]
[1] City of Easton, Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form, Attachment: Building Description Survey Area 1 Zone B (City Council Resolution approved 12 May 1982).
[2] Deed, Penn Family to Jacob Smith, B3 455 (10 Apr. 1807); A.D. Chidsey, Jr., The Penn Patents in the Forks of the Delaware Plan of Easton, Map 2 (Vol. II of Publications of the Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society 1937).
[3] City of Easton, Pennsylvania Historic Resource Survey Form, Attachment: Building Description Survey Area 1 Zone B (City Council Resolution approved 12 May 1982).
[4] Article, “The New Numbers”, Easton Daily Free Press, Thursday, 4 Dec. 1873, p.3.
[5] Census Directory of Northampton County, Eleventh U.S. Census, 1890 (Joseph H. Werner, assisted by Geo. W. West 1891), J-POHL transcribed online at www.bethlehempaonline.com/beth1890/eastoncityjtop.html.
[6] 1900 Census, Series T623, Roll 1447, p.61B (clerk, age 27).
[7] 1910 Census, Series T624, Roll 1381, p.28A (own income, age 73); 1920 Census, Series T625, Roll 1609, p.95B.