This small stone house was the original house on the Daniel Geissler (died 1745) tract, now Germantown High School. In the late nineteenth century it still stood to the rear of the Morris-Littell property, near the edge of E.H. Butler's property.

Sources:

• GHS: Photo Box 1, p. 116, Collection of Edwin C. Jellett: "Original house on Geissler tract, now Germantown High School, Germantown avenue and High street" (photograph).

• GHS: Keyser, Naaman. Notes for v. 2 (north of Chelten), History of Old Germantown, p. 38: "5933" (unpublished typewritten manuscript).

• LCP: Jellett, Edwin C. Germantown Gardens and Gardeners. Germantown: Horace F. McCann, 1914, pp. 13-14 (text).