Background:
This coach factory stood on the north side of West Rittenhouse Street. Jellet describes the mid-nineteenth century Smith & Burk coach factory, placing it near Germantown Avenue, between Honey Run and the old Spring Cottage adjacent to the Old Poor House (37 West Rittenhouse). The 1871 shows Fishers' coach factory at that location. The 1871 and 1885 Atlases for Germantown show a second coach factory on this block--the C.W. Burk coach factory past Adams (McCallum) Street at what is now 109 or 111 West Rittenhouse Street.

Demolished.

Sources:

• GHS: Jellett, Edwin C. "Germantown Historical Miscellany," p. 232: "Old Poor House Lane" (news article written October 8, 1898 ).