Lower Merion/Narberth Building Photographs
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The buildings are sorted by street, compass direction (N,E,S,W) and then by address number. We use the street names and abbreviations (Ave/Ln/St/Rd/etc.) in Montgomery County’s Property Records, since it is an authoritative site that includes other data: owner, sale prices, taxes, plot size, building size, etc. It’s indexed by Tax Map ID and Parcel ID as well as address, although some old or township-owned properties have no address number, only the street name.
Year Built comes from the Montgomery County site but it isn’t reliable. Some very old buildings aren’t as old as reported, and other dates seem to be rounded to decade years: 1910, 1920 etc.
Sale Dates in format like 01-01-19xx are correct for the year but not the day.
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For each building, we show its “village” or post office: Ardmore, Penn Valley, Narberth, etc., based on the Zip Code in the Montgomery County site. For teardowns we show two permit dates if available, pre-inspection and pre-demolition.
We also include other information we may have, such as zoning or other board consideration, the reason for including it, our personal knowledge of the site, etc. The date taken is computer-generated as either the date we took the photograph or the date we created a new version of the picture from a scan of a film photo
or from a different digital photo. For some photographs the date taken is included in the comments in a format such as 12.2.99 for December 2, 1999.
Most of the photographs have been taken or scanned by Max Buten or Ted Goldsborough for the Lower Merion Historical Society. Color photographs taken after 1923 are © Lower Merion Historical Society.
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absorbing some of LM and Narberth history, contact us.
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