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Banjotown
house restoration 2007-11
Interior & Exterior changes:
When the current house owner's great grandfather's (x6) brother, Philip Livingston, signed the Declaration of Independence the adjacent area was still vacant farm land and woods assigned to Richard Davies by William Penn. This specific house was built in 1885-6, shortly after a sub-division of what was then Sarah Jane Matlack's 12-acre plot and Banjo Town subsequently emerged as a flourishing community. The original house was extended haphazardly in the 1900s with a series of rough additions including a cobbler's shop (which later became a bathroom) in an enclosed porch at the rear.
The old footage in the exterior video here mixes the remains of the old 19th century layout with the ongoing 21st century refurbishment. Now almost completely restored (since these videos) the new design is basically indistinguishable from the old at the front and sides, while the back reflects and complements the original structure, approximately covering the same footprint established in its early days.
Lecture:
Early Radnor – Photos & Stories
by Phil Graham:shop
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