April 23, 2014
A Fixer-Upper with Panache
Philadelphia Sunday Inquirer | (excerpt)
If a house could have a pedigree, the John Penn House on Mansion Row would have a lineage to die for. Recognize any of these names? George Washington. John Penn. Benjamin Chew. Now, add some that are not so familiar, but equally significant : Juan de Miralles, the first Spanish ambassador to this country, and William Swain, founder of the Philadelphia Ledger and Baltimore Sun newspapers. For $1.25 million, you can put your own name on that illustrious list. Steve DiFrancesco, president of Hunter Reed and Company, the real estate firm handling the sale of the property, says …