Archive Entry
426 Wyoming Avenue, Joy Wheeler Dow Architect, 1897
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Shingle style home by architect Joy Wheeler Dow, who built several homes in the Wyoming area. This house was called the Pirsson Cottage in Dow's 1906
"The Book of a Hundred Houses." In 1912, Dr. Frank Jewett (who also lived in 430 Wyoming Avenue) lived in the house.Jewett was the president of Bell Laboratories and many employees of Bell labs lived in the Wyoming area. In 1919 Jessie and Janette Dimmick lived in the house. Jessie was the Secretary Treasurer of a Pennsylvania mining company.
David Gibson Historic Sites Survey 1978
https://archive.org/details/bookofhundredhou00herbrich/page/372/mode/2up?ref=ol&view=theater&q=PirssonThistle, October 1982
The Book of a Hundred Homes. New York: Duffield & Co, 1906, 373-381.