Miss Elizabeth Newport

S. 18th Street, Longport, NJ

1890 | Residence | Demolished

“Minerva Parker, architect, 14 S. Broad Street, has plans prepared for a two-and-a-half story frame cottage, at Longport, NJ, for Miss Elizabeth Newport. Dimensions, 30x36 feet. Modern conveniences, hot air heating.” (May 28, 1890)

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Not much is known (yet) about Elizabeth Newport, who was born to Quaker parents in Chester County, Pennsylvania in 1829. She commissioned the house from Minerva in 1890; when she died in 1897, she bequeathed the house to her two nieces, Elizabeth N. Travilla and Mary Travilla.