Background:
This eighteenth-century two-story stone dwelling was similar in appearance to the Green Tree Inn, but without the second window to the right of the door. In 1800 tanner Michael Keyser lived here. After the War of 1812, British soldier William Botton [or Bottoms] settled here, eventually buying the Haines brewing house on Walnut Lane.

Additional Sources:

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 Manuscript Notes for v. 2 (north of Chelten), History of Old Germantown, p. 47 (unpublished typewritten notes).

• 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).

• GHS: Photo Scrapbook 2 : Johnson, George Clarence, compiler. "Pictorial Germantown Road & the Vicinity & Some of its Inhabitants, p. 108 (print of 1859 FDB Richards photograph shown above).

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