{"id":15484,"date":"2014-10-26T08:10:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T13:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/?p=15484"},"modified":"2024-10-04T09:32:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T14:32:52","slug":"brewerytown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.howderfamily.com\/blog\/brewerytown\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewerytown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Twelve Mile Circle reflects my personal interests including those that transcend geo-oddities. Those include my fascination with zymurgy and breweriana. Recent examples included <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=14632\">Geo-BREWities<\/a> and <a href=\"\/blog\/?p=15283\">More Geo-BREWities<\/a> that examined breweries referencing geography within their names. I do try to tie these themes back to geography in some manner since that&#8217;s the notional objective of 12MC. Sometimes I&#8217;m more successful at that than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The current effort flipped the script. Rather than breweries named for geography, could I find geography named for breweries? Once again I turned to my trusty friend, the <a href=\"https:\/\/geonames.usgs.gov\/pls\/gnispublic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Geographic Names Information System<\/a>. I discovered surprisingly few place called Brewery anything. I did noticed minor occurrences with Brewery Gulch, Hill, Creek, Spring, Hollow and the like, plus a few historic properties. However, the list contained only a single populated place, a neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania called Brewerytown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Brewerytown<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0;\" tabindex=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/embed?pb=!1m18!1m12!1m3!1d12229.709390726712!2d-75.19153747267845!3d39.97655426394989!2m3!1f0!2f0!3f0!3m2!1i1024!2i768!4f13.1!3m3!1m2!1s0x89c6c7b94c2e1a2d%3A0x7dd03958163ff6d2!2sBrewerytown%2C%20Philadelphia%2C%20PA!5e0!3m2!1sen!2sus!4v1584311339494!5m2!1sen!2sus\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" aria-hidden=\"false\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Brewerytown <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brewerytown,_Philadelphia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">runs approximately<\/a> between the Schuylkill River&#8217;s eastern bank and 25th Street, bounded by Cecil B. Moore Avenue to the north and Parrish Street to the south<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name derived from an earlier industrial past as noted in <a href=\"https:\/\/water.phila.gov\/blog\/thats-why-they-call-it-brewerytown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">That&#8217;s Why They Call it Brewerytown<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;Brewers were attracted to the area ponded by the dam at the Fairmount Water Works for the ice they could harvest from the [Schuylkill] river. Then, in vaults carved along its banks, brewers would pack wooden hogsheads of lager beer with ice for six to eight months for the beer to &#8216;ripen.&#8217; Brewerytown evolved into a neighborhood that accounted for about half the city\u2019s beer production and included some of the largest brewers in the nation, who shipped their beer throughout the world.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillyhistory.org\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/06\/mmmmm-beeeer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PhillyHistory.org<\/a> added,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;By the turn of the century, eleven large breweries had made Brewerytown their home. Immigrants eager to find jobs and to support such industries as malt houses, equipment suppliers, and saloons followed close behind and turned the area into one of the city\u2019s most vibrant neighborhoods.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">So What Happened?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The usual story. <a href=\"http:\/\/pabreweryhistorians.tripod.com\/nabastory.html\">Prohibition<\/a>: &#8220;<em>In 1933 prohibition was repealed, but there wasn&#8217;t much left of Brewerytown but idle, hulking industrial carcasses with broken windows<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nonetheless, the current incarnation of Brewerytown showed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillymag.com\/tag\/brewerytown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Signs of revitalization<\/a> although it <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=AlyCDwAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PT121&amp;lpg=PT121&amp;dq=the+people+in+this+neighborhood+range+from+cold-cash+professionals+to+college+students+to+families+trying+to+make+ends+meet.+Its+proximity+to+both+I-76+and+the+infamous+loop+down+Kelly+Drive+makes+it+hugely+desirable+for+just+about+everyone--but+be+warned+that+when+real-estate+marketers+refer&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=HmCV4Lf4ts&amp;sig=ACfU3U038TbSreYJB9cHV90j7RiYGvcCNw&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwjAncHUxZ3oAhVwlHIEHat3BAsQ6AEwAHoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&amp;q=the%20people%20in%20this%20neighborhood%20range%20from%20cold-cash%20professionals%20to%20college%20students%20to%20families%20trying%20to%20make%20ends%20meet.%20Its%20proximity%20to%20both%20I-76%20and%20the%20infamous%20loop%20down%20Kelly%20Drive%20makes%20it%20hugely%20desirable%20for%20just%20about%20everyone--but%20be%20warned%20that%20when%20real-estate%20marketers%20refer&amp;f=false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">still had a ways to go<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;&#8230; the people in this neighborhood range from cold-cash professionals to college students to families trying to make ends meet. Its proximity to both I-76 and the infamous loop down Kelly Drive makes it hugely desirable for just about everyone&#8211;but be warned that when real-estate marketers refer to part of it as &#8216;up-and-coming,&#8217; a lot of the area hasn&#8217;t quite, er, come &#8216;up&#8217; yet.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Two historic properties on the western edge of Brewerytown fascinated me in particular. Neither had anything to do with breweries. They&#8217;re also about as far apart on the spectrum of culture, era and social hierarchy as imaginable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lemon Hill<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/garyreed\/7601530330\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/7260\/7601530330_d8ccdf8c2e_o.jpg\" alt=\"Lemon Hill Mansion. Photo by Gary Reed; (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)\"\/><\/a><figcaption>Lemon Hill Mansion<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Henry Pratt, a wealthy Philadelphia merchant, constructed a large Federal-style mansion on a 43-acre site along the Schuylkill River in 1800 (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/bALwXHEJa59SFXVW6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">map<\/a>). He named it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.parkcharms.org\/lemon-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Lemon Hill<\/a>. Apparently he grew lemon trees in his private greenhouse elsewhere on the property, thus the name.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t even his primary residence either. Pratt used it as a &#8220;summer retreat&#8221; to escape the confines of the city during the ferociously hot and humid months. That&#8217;s what people of wealth and privilege in urban environments did back in those days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The city licensed Lemon Hill, now part of Fairmount Park, to the <a href=\"https:\/\/cda1890.org\/lemon-hill\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Colonial Dames of America<\/a> (&#8220;<em>an international society of women members whose direct ancestors held positions of leadership in the Thirteen Colonies<\/em>.&#8221;) as their Philadelphia headquarters. In return, the society must preserve the property and make it available to the public in a variety of ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">John Coltrane House<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Jazz Icon&#039;s Philly Home to be Renovated\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P3teY5qtIUQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoltrane.com\/\">John Coltrane<\/a> (1926 \u2013 1967), the pioneering and highly influential postwar Jazz saxophonist, lived at 1511 N 33rd Street (<a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/qzU4Bq2RXwwNkdd6A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Street View<\/a>) from 1952 to 1958. That might make it slightly outside of Brewerytown, although close enough for this article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those were the formative years of his career. That&#8217;s when he began to establish himself and started playing with legendary figures such as Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk. Even after he moved to New York he continued to &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Coltrane_House\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">use the house as an alternate residence<\/a>&#8221; for the remainder of his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The John Coltrane House became a formal National Historic Landmark in 1999. Efforts are underway to preserve the property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twelve Mile Circle reflects my personal interests including those that transcend geo-oddities. Those include my fascination with zymurgy and breweriana. 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