Northeast corner of East Chestnut Hill and Norwood Avenues
DATE: 1887 - 1888
ORIGINAL OWNER: Charles Taylor
ARCHITECT: Unknown
CONTRACTOR: Unknown
Springside School was started in 1879 by Mrs. Comegy and Miss Bell, in one of the two
houses of the south side of Summit Street between Prospect Street and the Reading
Railroad. It soon moved to Chestnut Hill and Norwood Avenues and remained there
until the move to the present location at the intersection of Willow Grove Avenue and
Cherokee Street in December, 1957. Land for the present school (originally part of the
front lawn of Druim Moir, the Houston estate,) was given by Dr. and Mrs. Henry P.
Brown as a birthday present to the school on its 75th anniversary. Addition to the
Norwood Avenue school building was probably designed by Cope and Stewardson,
according to Jeff Moak. The spring for which the school is named is on the property of
129 Bethlehem Pike. Modern doctor's offices and parking lot on site presently.
Note: Demolished Old Springside Upper School. Hotchkin, p. 455: "Mrs. Comegy's
School (Springside)." p. 487: "The site of Mrs. Comegy's and Miss Bell's Young Ladies
School was occupied by Justus Donat, a brother of the innkeeper, and was owned by
Charles Taylor."