This Old Manor

The property has been known at various times as the Heights, Woodburne, Woodbourne,

The Scott Estate, Little Flower, and Villa St Theresa.

The land on which the mansion stands was originally the a family farm which ran all the way

to the Creek and there are indications that the Great Minquas Path, a fur

trading route between the Susquahannock region and the Dutch fur trading posts, passed through the 

property.

It is said there were encampments on the "Heights of Darby" during the British occupation of 

Philadelphia (1777-1778)

Before the Civil War, the property was owned by George McHenry, President of the

Philadelphia Board of Trade, and a Southern sympathiser who went to England and arranged for 

shipments to go through the Union blockade. The land was sold at Sheriff's sale in April 1862

and the property then came under the ownership of Thomas A. Scott who served in

Abraham Lincoln's Cabinet as Assistant Secretary of War for Transportation and later as

President of the Pennsylvania Railroad..

His son, Edgar Scott, commissioned noted architect Horace Trumbauer to build the present mansion

in 1906 with the possible participation of Julian Abele.

Both Edgar Scott Senior and Edgar Scott Junior served with the Norton-Harjes American Volunteer 

Motorized Ambulance Service during the First World War.  Edgar Scott Senior died in France on 

October 20, 1918, 22 days before the Armistice. Edgar Junior married Helen Hope Montgomery

who had been the inspiration for Tracy Lord in "The Philadelphia Story."

The property was purchased by the Sisters of the Divine Redeemer in the 1930's. It is believed the 

postcard dates to the time the property was used as an orphanage. It later was a nursing home

and closed in 2005

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CMRE Church

The CMRE Church was founded in 1887 in West Philly, as the "Theological Seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church", its chartered and legal name. The seminary was established based on the pledge of a trust created by Harriet Benson in March, 1886. The corner stone for the first building to house the seminary was laid on September 19 of that same year. The seminary began meeting for classes in 1886 under the tutelage of Bishop William Nicholson in his residence. It officially opened the doors to its first class of students on September 30, 1887, in its new building as the seminary of the Reformed Episcopal Church, after the trust was received on March 16, 1887.

The future of Christ Memorial has been in doubt for years, at least since the church’s 170-foot-high steeple collapsed during an intense storm in 2004.

In 2018 A demolition permit has been issued for the CMRE Church. Now it's waiting for it's fate wit the wrecking ball.

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The Church of the Alcohol and Drug Consumption

Photo Above By VDFP

This Church, a structure in N. Philly dates back to 1848. 

Construction on this Church was started in May of 1848 and it was dedicated in November of the following year, with a third of the funds said to have been donated by non-Catholics who were happy to have it in the area. With majestic Gothic architecture and twin copper spires soaring fifteen stories above the ground, the Church is an iconic building and a central part of an area that has already lost much of its heritage. It was designed by Patrick Charles Keely, one of the most prolific and respected ecclesiastical church architects in America's history, and is currently the oldest surviving structure he created. St. John Neumann helped consecrate the church and St. Katharine Drexel was baptized there, so it is also of no small historical significance to the Catholic church.

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This Budd's for you

Budd was founded in 1912 in Philadelphia by Edward G. Budd, whose fame came from his development of the first all-steel automobile bodies in 1913 and, in the 1930s, his company's invention of the "shotweld" technique for joining pieces of stainless steel without damaging its anti-corrosion properties.The Budd Company was a 20th century metal fabricator, a major supplier of body components to the automobile industry and a manufacturer of stainless steel passenger rail cars, airframes, missile and space vehicles, and various defense products.

Budd Company became part of Budd Thyssen in 1978 and in 1999 a part of ThyssenKrupp Budd. Body and chassis operations were sold to Martinrea International in 2006. No longer an operating company, Budd filed for bankruptcy in 2014. It currently exists to provide benefits to its retirees.

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