Photograph- Hiram Witmer home along Route 30 in Paradise. On back of photo: 'Original house was built by Hiram Witmer, son of Daniel Witmer. Hiram married Margaret Hoover. This will be torn down 1964 to build the new state ? Paradise Building."
Photograph- Hiram Witmer home along Route 30 in Paradise. On back of photo: 'Original house was built by Hiram Witmer, son of Daniel Witmer. Hiram married Margaret Hoover. This will be torn down 1964 to build the new state ? Paradise Building."
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Hiram Witmer home along Route 30 in Paradise. On back of photo: 'Original house was built by Hiram Witmer, son of Daniel Witmer. Hiram married Margaret Hoover. This will be torn down 1964 to build the new state ? Paradise Building."
Hope Lodge, near Philadelphia, was built in the first half of the 18th century. A bedroom fireplace is framed with tiles from Holland, as are several others. The use of two horizontal panels over the fireplace is a typical procedure of the period. Courtesy Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission.