Show first brick house in quaker city preserved on lansdowne drive in 0 o the west park near thirty fourth street and am girard denue stands the first brick house bouse built in philadelphia says ao an article in the philadelphia record william penn bult built it for his dauab ter letitia Ie when they lived loveil at market street between front and second the founder was a nun of simple habits and he ordered the house built plain and small of red brick two stories high and with a small rear addition it nus the first house in the city to have a cellar and a garret for many years it stood on letitia court while other structures grew up around it utmost almost hiding it 11 from view for a while after Leti death it was asa used for a tavern finally in 1883 as an outcome of the historic interest it inspired during daring duri dari the celebration of the bicentennial I 1 anniversary of the founding of pennsylvania it was carefully taken down and re erected on its ita present site in the park |