 The house appears on the 1843 Ellet Map of Philadelphia County, on the south side of Nicetown Road (Hunting Park Avenue), east of the Philadelphia and Germantown Rail Road and west of the Germantown and Perkiomen Turnpike (Germantown Avenue).By the 1855 Barnes Map, the city's street grid has been sketched in, although few of the streets yet existed.By 1862, a horse-drawn streetcar line passed a block east of the house.