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Versailles, sigh
2005.03.06 17:56

Well guess what?!? Since you've lived right off Germantown Ave. you can tell everyone that you likewise lived right off a street President George Washington once lived on. The Deshler Morris House at 5442 Germantown Ave. briefly served as the 'Executive Mansion' during Philadelphia's yellow fever epidemic 1973-4(?) and the government (Philadelphia was US Capital 1790-1800) sought safety in Germantown.

The Deshler Morris House is still there, but the King of Prussia Tavern a block up, where Jefferson stayed and Washington often ate, is gone. It's the Risqué Beauty Parlor and DollarLand now. Stotesbury also lived in Germantown (on Tulpehocken St.) when he was a widower with two daughter's.

Jean-Pierre-Antoine Tassaert
Love and Friendship
(The Sacrifice of the Arrows of Love on the Altar of Friendship)
1776
marble

Today there are some very nice sculptures from Whitemarsh Hall at the Philadelphia Museum of Art--given by Eva in memory of Ned. The sculpture that was in the Stairhall, before that, belonged to Frederick the Great. Imagine that, real live King of Prussia marble.

[And, speaking of industrialists, how about Martha Stewart's coincidental Versailles sigh of relief? I can't wait to read her guide to Creative House Arrest.]

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