The Hipple House: Reflections On a Lost Family Home
Two weeks ago the house at 27/29 South Sproul Road in Broomall was demolished. With the loss of the Hipple House, silently but imposingly keeping watch over that section of Sproul Road, one more physical link to our township’s past and the people who shaped it has been...
Obituary for a Funeral Home: the McCluen House, ca. 1847-2021
Last week the former Kish funeral home, a familiar landmark at Sproul and Lawrence Roads, passed into history. Now, after 1998 Sproul Road has been demolished, it is worth looking back on this building’s roughly 174-year life....