Background:
The house itself is first mentioned in a 1762 deed, but deeds to the property extend back to 1682. The Knorr family owned this property from 1728 to 1849. Later resident Daniel Smith, botanist and president of Haverford College, cultivated a noteworthy garden. The two-story stone and stucco house was torn down in 1868 by Jacob Albright for the construction of a store and drug store.

Additional Sources:

• GHS: Keyser, Naaman. Manuscript Notes for v. 2 (north of Chelten), History of Old Germantown, p. 47 (unpublished typewritten text).

• GHS: Photo Box 1:
  • "House of John Knorr (left), West side of Germantown avenue, north from Walnut lane" (copy of photo made 1859 for John Fanning Watson--same image as shown above from FDB Richards Collection at LCP).
  • in envelope 4: "The Knorr House formerly at N.W. cor Walnut Lane & Main St. Germantown. Owned by John Knorr and later owned & occupied by Daniel B. Smith. Copy by Reuben Haines of a pencil sketch by Mr. Thos. Stewardson in 1862" (photograph of oval-shaped pencil sketch showing the side of the house facing Walnut Lane, to view see Bullock Collection citation below).

• GHS: Photo Scrapbook 2 : Johnson, George Clarence, compiler. "Pictorial Germantown Road & the Vicinity & Some of its Inhabitants, p. 108 (print of 1859 F.D.B. Richards photograph shown above and also a photograph of same pencil sketch found in Bullock Collection below).

• HSP: Shoemaker Collection, folio 12: "W Cor Germantown Road & W Walnut Lane" (text and photograph).

• Jellett, Edwin C. Germantown Gardens and Gardeners. Germantown: Horace F. McCann, 1914, p. 81 (text).

• LCP: John G. Bullock Collection, number 65: "Knorr house, NW Main St & Walnut Lane" (lantern slide of an oval-shaped pencil sketch on a visiting card, made in 1862).