1982 National Register of Historic Places Inventory for Colonial Germantown Historic District:
"Charles Megargee Mansion, now Settlement Music School, Germantown branch, c. 1858, two and one-half stories, brick with wood and pressed metal trim, Second Empire style. --- Contributing."

Background:
Also served as Young Republican Club, then Girls High School.

Additional Sources:

• GHS: Handsome Homes of Germantown, Chestnut Hill, Mt. Airy & Pelham (Germantown: Independent-Gazette, 1899), p. 28: "Young Republican Club House, Main Street below Tulpehocken" (photograph).

• GHS: Keyser, Naaman. Manuscript Notes for v. 2 (north of Chelten), History of Old Germantown, pp. 51-52 (unpublished typewritten notes).

• GHS: Photo Scrapbook 2(2), p. 109 "Young Republican Club House Main Street below Tulpehocken [this printed caption is followed by this typed information:] Formerly, 1871, Chas. Magarge's Residence, Now the colored Y.M.C.A. Owned by Henry Godey in 1885, was the Franklin School in 1889 & owned by Harry Godey." (same image, here dated as 1906, as shown above from the Perkins Collection, vol. 61D, p. 79).

• GHS: Public Schools Box 1, envelope 7 Germantown District High School-preliminary agitation for: "To Open High Schools Here" (news article dated June 10, 1910).

• HSP: Campbell Collection, vol. 35, p. 8: "Young Republican Club House, Main Street below Tulpehocken-1900" (same image, here dated as 1900, as shown above from the Perkins Collection, vol. 61D, p. 79).

• HSP: Shoemaker Collection, folio 13: "Girls High School. Built by Charles Megargee as a residence about 1875. Germantown Road, W side, op Herman St." (photograph by Cleveland, 1914, showing the northwest side of the house as well as the facade).

• PHC: 6128 Germantown Avenue: "Young Republican Club House, Main Street below Tulpehocken-1900" (same image as shown above from the Perkins Collection, vol. 61D, p. 79).