4500 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA

Address: 4500 Spruce Street (S.W. corner 45^th Street, West Philadelphia), Phila., PA

Architect: Unknown, Later alterations done by Wilson Eyre

Built: 1875

Status: Demolished 1960, Current site of University Mews condominium complex. Portion of stone wall surrounding property still stands.

Charles Moseley Swain Residence

Photo by Moses King

Philadelphia and Notable Philadelphians

(New York: Blanchard Press, Isaac H. Blanchard Co., 1901)

Additional Information:

Athenaeum of Philadelphia – Historic House Reports

Holding Name: Swain, Charles Moseley / Charles Moseley Swain House

Quantity: 1, Call Number: HHR 90.4

"In this substantial home of the most comfortable type, characteristic of the best part of West Philadelphia, resides Charles M. Swain, the president of City Trust Co., Director of the Merchants' National Bank, etc., former Councilman and son of the founder of the "Public Ledger." Moses King, Philadelphia and Notable Philadelphians (New York: Blanchard Press, Isaac H. Blanchard Co., 1901), p.69.

"Farther west, on the grounds at the southwest corner of 45th and Spruce Streets, Charles Moseley Swain, financier and founder of The Philadelphia Record, erected, in 1875, a mansion in which he lived until his death in 1904. He left a fortune of $1,800,000.00, but no will. Mr. Swain's mansion remained until 1960 when it was torn down. On September 20, 1962 ground was broken on the site for the University Mews, University City's first major residential construction in a generation." University City Historic Society.

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