Identifier: suburbanstations00penn (find matches)
Title: Suburban stations and rural homes on the Pennsylvania Railroad
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Pennsylvania Railroad
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Office of the General Passenger Agent
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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thecolonies through their struggle for independence. The plan of the town was so designed as to preserveunimpaired the natural beauties of the site, and permittheir enhancement by progressive improvement. Withthat foresight which characterizes the management ofthe Pennsylvania Railroad, the principle was estab-lished that whatever was done here should be well andthoroughly done; and already the wisdom of this isseen in the value of the building-lots, which nowreadily command prices equal to that of an ordinaryfarm in the same locality a score of years ago. Therules governing the sale of these lots, and to which allpurchasers are bound to comply, are as follows:— ist. All buildings must be set back from the lines of *Proud, in his History of Pennsylvania, says that Rowland Ellis, a prominent manamong the early Welsh settlers, came from Brin Maiir, a place near Dolgelly, in thecounty of Merioneth. Bryn signifies hill, and Maiur, big—broad. ArdMore means pre-cisely the same in Irish.
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RURAL HOMES. 25 the streets such distance as shall be agreed upon anddesignated in the deed. 2d. The improvements on the lots fronting uponMontgomery avenue must be of not less value thangSooo; and upon other avenues, streets, or lanes, ofnot less value than ^5000. 3d. The erection of buildings must be commencedwithin two years, and completed, so far as to renderthe same inhabitable, within three years from the dateof purchase. 4th. The erection of any buildings included in thefollowing classification will be expressly prohibited,namely:—Hotels, taverns, drinking-saloons, blacksmith,carpenter, or wheelwright shops, steam mills, tanneries,slaughter-houses, skin-dressing establishments, liverystables, glue, candle, soap, or starch manufactories, orother buildings of offensive occupation. 5th. The whole amount of the purchase-money maybe paid in cash, or, if the purchaser should prefer, one-third of the amount may be paid in cash, and the bal-ance secured by bond and mortgage upon the

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