Background:
Colonial. Demolished in 1930 when the Green Tree Tavern was moved to this site.

In the earliest years of the Germantown settlement, Jan Doeden farmed and grew apples and pears on this lot just to the north of the Pastorius tract. Christian Warmer the elder, who resided on the next lot (extending to Walnut Lane), later purchased the properties both above and below the Pastorius tract, the Morris-Littell house and Doeden's house at 6021-23 Germantown Avenue. Christian Warmer the younger then lived here with Dr. Christopher Witt, who had previously resided in the Morris-Littell house with Daniel Geissler, its previous owner.

Additional Sources:

• GHS: glass negatives, box 5, env 5#2 (Jellett negative dated 1903, showing store fronts).

• GHS: Keyser, Naaman. Notes for v. 2 (north of Chelten), History of Old Germantown:
  • pp. 38-40: "5933" (unpublished typewritten manuscript)
  • p. 42: "6021" and "6023" (unpublished typewritten manuscript).

• GHS: Photo Scrapbook 2, p. 105: "#6021-23" (photograph).

• HSP: Campbell Collection, vol. 33, p. 193: "Warner Houses. 6021-6023 Gtn Av." (same photographic image as in Perkins, vol. 61D, p. 65; taken before the 1886 construction of 6025-29 Germantown Avenue).

• HSP: Mutual/Green Tree Insurance Policy 9216 for 6023 Germantown Avenue.

• HSP: Perkins Collection, vol. 61D, p. 65: "6021 and 6023 Germantown av. - Warner houses" (same photographic image as in Campbell, vol. 33, p. 193, and manuscript text).

• Jellett, Edwin C. Germantown Gardens and Gardeners. Germantown: Horace F. McCann, 1914, pp. 13-14: associations of Christian Warmer and of Dr. Christopher Witt with this property, including its gardens, during the Colonial period (text).

These Warner houses also appear in some images of the Green Tree Tavern:

• HSP: Campbell Collection, vol. 33, pp. 188-189: Green Tree Inn, 6019 Germantown Av. (photographs, woodcut).

• HSP: Perkins Collection, 61D:59, 61, 63, and 64 Pastorius House, Green Tree Tavern (photographs, woodcuts).

• HSP: Shoemaker Collection, folio 14: Green Tree Tavern (photographs).