Any Info on Interior Moldings, etc. for Manayunk/Rox Row House circa 1910
Recently purchased a small row home built around 1910 in Manayunk/Roxborough. It’s under 900 square feet and is 2-story. It was renovated and is beautiful but I’d love to see any old pictures or get a better idea of what the original moldings would have looked like. Any help is appreciated!
Recently purchased a small row home built around 1910 in Manayunk/Roxborough. It’s under 900 square feet and is 2-story. It was renovated and is beautiful but I’d love to see any old pictures or get a better idea of what the original moldings would have looked like. Any help is appreciated!
I don’t know anything about Philadelphia, so don’t know if this will be helpful, but since no one else has posted yet:
Generally 1910 style is neo-colonial, “white cities,” bungalow, late Victorian, and American arts & crafts style. Your neighbors are probably the best source of information about what moldings you had originally. You may have had flat, plain picture rails and no molding near the ceiling.
You can do image searches on Google for many of these terms plus Victorian and Edwardian, searches on Amazon for books in this style, Google and eBay searches (and also check Restoration Hardware) for early electric light fixtures, and for historic wallpaper in the teens period. All of these should turn up various images of rooms and fittings.
I have found Jane Powell’s Bungalow Kitchens book to focus a lot on this period, even though all the photos are of kitchens and butler pantries and all the houses are on the West Coast.
The Joseph Byron book “Photographs of New York Interiors” at the turn of the century is also fantastic, but most of the photos are circa 1900, not 1910. They seem pretty similar though, at least in my mind!
Good luck!