So that "Hohen Adel" carriage stone was re-listed on eBay today, and we received an interesting email from the seller, in response to the inquiry we sent when we first encountered his listing: ------------------------------------------------------ eBay Seller has responded to your question about item: BEER ITEM -- HOHEN ADLE BREWERY CARRIGE STEP STONE ------------------------------------------------------ Hello Fillmores of the East Falls...
ITEM DESCRIPTION: A BEER COLLECTORS DREAM ITEM; OWN AN ORIGINAL PIECE OF PHILA PA BREWING HISTORY; CARRIAGE STEP STONE FROM THE LATE 1800'S; THESE STONES WERE USED AS A STEP TO GET OFF OF A HORSE-DRIVEN CARRIAGE ; THIS STONE WAS AT THE ORIGINAL BREWERY AT CONRAD STREET AND INDIAN QUEEN LANE IN PHILA PA; THEN IN THE EARLY 1950'S IT WAS MOVED TO THE HOHEN ADLE HOUSE ON INDIAN QUEEN LANE; THE STONE IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION; A RARE RARE...
In its heydey, Hohenadel Brewery produced seven different beers, including Indian Queen Ale, Rival Porter, and even a "Health" beer that claimed to be "Approved, Recommended and Endorsed by U.S. Health Bulletin for Absolute Purity, Free from Adulterations" -- big whoops, there. In 1916, the PA District Attorney charged John Hohenadel with "misbranding," and fined him $100. Poor John! Sounds like he was just trying to market his own spin on the...
NEWSWORKS.org is local public TV station WHYY's online community news source (they also partner with a lot of other newspapers, social media, reporters, etc. to create a huge database of all kinds of info/issues in the Philly region. They've got an active FaceBook page, with lots of sharing and discussion. Not sure how scribe Emily Brooks found us, but she was eager to tour the mansion, and hear all about our collaboration with East Falls...
So, I commuted for work from Oklahoma City to Philly for a year while working for BuLogics. One morning a week I would drive around Philadelphia and look for the neighborhood that would become home to my family (husband, three home-schooled kids and two dogs). I looked in every single neighborhood, regardless of demographic, statistic, etc. I knew I'd know "home" when I found it, and once I saw East Falls I was done. I love everything about...
How did your street get its name? How did any of them? We've got three "Queen" lanes in East Falls -- Queen, New Queen, and Indian Queen -- but does anyone know who this "Queen/queen" is? Any googling fool can tell you that Philadelphia's Queen Village was named for Sweden's Queen Cristina, but our local sovereign's identity is not so apparent. A yellowed newspaper clipping we found in the old Baptist church's archives next door to Hohenadel...
Decorating a historic house is always a challenge -- it's not like you can just hop off to Target for another leaded glass assembly or some hand-beveled balustrades. And when's the last time you browsed an aisle of newel post lighting fixtures? True story: I didn't even know how to spell "newel post" when I opened Felicte's latest photo, cryptically titled "Meet Maeve." And there she was, already up on her pedestal, the front banister of...
"Confessions of a Window-Peeker," I might title this post, although since it's about Hohenadel House's new bathroom that'd probably give off the wrong impression, d'oh. But I am pretty nosy, which I pronounce "noosy" for some reason (BTW, anyone know why locals add an extra "o" when we say it out loud? Or is the word "newsy"...?). Whatever ya call it, I loooooooooove seeing how people fix up their homes, and how their spaces serve them. What...
Let's get this straight right off the bat: no, Sean and Felicite are not trust fund babies. They are neither independently wealthy nor sponsored by royalty (as far as we know). They've renovated old houses before, and saw Hohenadel House as an exciting challenge, their biggest home project yet. That's what they liked about the house: the challenge. The history. The satisfaction of restoring a faded architectural beauty -- giving it new life as a...
Our Höhenadel timeline jumps around quite a bit -- records in the 1800's were poorly kept, and complicated endeavors such as moving households or establishing businesses could take years (subsequently, important dates tend to overlap). Höhenadel history in East Falls begins with a veritable boat load of bakers & brewers who came to America from the southern Rhine region of Germany in the 1850's. They dispersed throughout Philadelphia and...
