Featured North End Home

Spring 1998 - The Harris House

We intend to highlight one of our neighbor's homes periodically here on the web site. If you have a home you'd like to see included, please let John Livingston know. As we build a significant archive of these features, we hope it will serve as something of a modest historical resource for the neighborhood.

Pictured below is the Harris House, 6306 Huntington Avenue. Owned by Karl and Bea Dahlen, it has been featured in our Historic Homes Tour as well as in the Daily Press.


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THE HARRIS HOUSE WAS BUILT IN DECEMBER, 1927.

THE FAMILY MOVED INTO HOUSE IN TIME FOR CHRISTMAS 1927.

THE CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY WAS OBTAINED AFTER THE HOLIDAYS, HENCE THE DATE OF 1928 ON THE PLAQUE.

THE OWNERS WERE MR. R. LOGAN HARRIS, FROM BLACKSTONE, VIRGINIA, HIS WIFE JULIA, ORIGINALLY FROM KENTUCKY, AND THEIR TWO CHILDREN R. LOGAN JR. AND LOUISE.

R. LOGAN HARRIS SR. WAS A CASHIER AT SCHMELZ BANK, WHICH WAS LOCATED ON WASHINGTON AVENUE AT 26TH STREET, THIS POSITION WAS SIMILAR TO A BANK MANAGER TODAY.

 

CONSTRUCTION

THE STYLE IS GEORGIAN REVIVAL

BUILT OF 3 BRICK DEEP FLEMISH BOND OVER A HALF BASEMENT

STILL HAS ORIGINAL HOT WATER RADIATOR HEAT

ORIGINAL SLATE ROOF COPPER GUTTERS & DOWN SPOUTS

SOLID PLASTER WALLS OAK FLOORS

9 1/2 FOOT CEILINGS

21 ROOMS - 38 DOORS - 48 WINDOWS 6 OVER 6 ROPE SASH

6 Bedrooms

2 Living Rooms

Dining Room

3 Full Baths

2 Kitchens

Breakfast Room

2 Powder Rooms

Sitting Room

Florida Room

Pantry

Laundry Room

Basement

Outside:

Widow's Walk

Detached Garage

Pool House

2 Brick Patios

In-ground Pool

CURRENT OWNERS KARL AND BEA DAHLEN

KARL IS A GRADUATE OF PENN STATE UNIVERSITY AND UNIV. ARKANSAS

SERVED IN THE US ARMY FOR 28 YEARS, RETIRED AS A COL

NOW A CONSULTANT

BEA DAHLEN ATTENDED UNNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA.

WRITES POETRY AND SHORT STORIES

PAINTING AND PHOTOGRAPHY

ACTIVE WITH FORT EUSTIS OFFICER AND CIVILIAN SPOUSES' CLUB, HILTON WOMAN'S CLUB AND NORTH END/HUNTINGTON HEIGHTS PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION, INC.

BOTH BORN AND RAISED IN PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA

2 GROWN SONS

BRUCE RICHARD, MARRIED TO RICHANN BRYANT DAHLEN OF PITTSBURGH PA

GRAND DAUGHTER, NICHOLE MARIE DAHLEN, BORN JAN 28, 1997

DOUGLAS KARL DAHLEN

Bea has written a poem about the time she and Karl have spent at 6306 Huntington:

Abiding

Around me I sense

A time long expired,

As brick surrounds plaster

Enclosing recall

Of dissimilar lineage,

And unhurried tempos,

Unfamiliar faces

Who dwelled in this hall.

 

This house was not only

Their shelter and haven,

Reflection of taste,

Disposition and role;

Erected to show forth

The family's position.

It stands as a tribute,

Endures with a soul.

 

Entrusted to my care,

Their history, character,

A passed generation

Prevails here within.

My home is an album

Of time's essence captured,

Preserving a portrait

Of that which has been.

 

 

B. V. Dahlen