Lower Merion is piloting a new program to honor historical homes.
A stroll through the winding streets of the English Village development in Wynnewood can feel like taking a trip back in time.
The community’s look has remained almost untouched by change, nearly a century after the first home was built. One exception: small brass plaques mounted on some of the properties, calling attention to the fact that the house is in a historic district, one of seven such districts in Lower Merion Township. The plaques, installed earlier this year, include the year the home was built and a rose, emblem of the Tudor dynasty.
All told, Prichard said, there are roughly 1,000 properties on the township’s Historic Resource Inventory.Lower Merion is not the only area adding plaques to historical homes. Radnor has had a plaque program for about a decade and Philadelphia’s dates to 1959. The Radnor plaques are more elaborate than those in English Village and also more expensive at $300, about twice the cost of the English Village plaques. Most are in Wayne and many include a date of construction, the names of the architect and the builder, perhaps a notable original owner, and the historical society’s name.
“That was the impetus to protect the village,” said Susan. She and Mark bought their house in 1997 and turned the interior into a replica of English Tudor houses as many other residents have done despite the fact that historic preservation ordinances affect only house exteriors. Abplanalp describes their house as “a trip back in time.”
Abplanalp said that it then took about three years of planning by her and Prichard to start the plaque program for the village. They considered but rejected some use of the free-standing mounted historical plaques seen around the state and erected by the Historic and Museum Commission.
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