“LOOK! LOOK! At the
new modern, side yard dwellings, 3807-09 Baring street. Notice the difference in work and material to
other houses recently built. No
skylights in dining rooms, but large bay windows instead; no long back alleys;
large front porches and back yards; Filbert’s patent pavement ["Vulcanite"]; finest tiled
bath rooms ever seen, butler’s pantry, with hot and cold water, plenty of
closets [i.e., cabinets]; steel plate French ranges; two heaters; cemented
cellars; incandescent electric and gas
for lighting; wardrobes in second and third floor front rooms; all French plate
glass in fronts; no carpets laid to cover bad floors; first and second stories
furnished in hard wood, old colonial style [i.e., parallel boards]; all done by
day’s work, no cheap contract work; plumbing guaranteed for three years. If you never have seen a first-class modern house,
you are specially invited to look through the houses. You may buy when you see them and learn the
price.
E. E. Baldwin, Builder.
on
the premises.”
(Phila. Inquirer, Nov. 21 and 23, 1891)
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