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	This photograph of University Heights #1 was taken looking north from the Woman's Magazine Building. Harvard Avenue is on the right and Bryn Mawr (now Trinity) is on the left. Cornell Avenue, Columbia Avenue and Amherst Avenue all intersect with Bryn Mawr on the left. Steam is rising from the power plant at the end of the Woman's Magazine Building Press Annex.
	This Dutch Colonial Revival style house at 6915 Amherst Avenue was one of a row of houses built along Amherst between 1906 and 1907. Architect Herbert C. Chivers was an associate of Edward Gardner Lewis, and architect for the Woman's Magazine Building. Chivers also designed houses, and this house matches his "Sambar" design on page 366 in "Artistic Homes," his catalogue of house plans published in 1910.
	This photograph of University Heights #1 was taken looking north from the Woman's Magazine Building, sometime before mid 1908. The ornate roof of the Conservatory is visible on the lower right. Harvard Avenue is the first street in the foreground, followed by Cornell Avenue and then Columbia Avenue. The houses are all located on Amherst Avenue.
	This photograph was taken at the intersection of Yale and Amherst Avenues in University Heights #1. All the houses are on Amherst Avenue. The closest house is 6969 Amherst (originally #23 Amherst) which was built before 1907 by the University Heights Realty and Development Company. The first resident was W. Ross McKnight, who first rented and then purchased the house.
	This Shingle style house at 6925 Amherst Avenue in University Heights #1 was one of a group of houses on Amherst built on speculation by the University Heights Realty and Development Company between 1906 and 1907. The house was pictured in Lewis' publication "The American Woman's League and University City," published in early 1908. The first resident was W. V. Teasdale.
	This Tudor Craftsman style house at 6935 Amherst Avenue in University Heights #1 was one of a group of houses on Amherst built on speculation by the University Heights Realty and Development Company between 1906 and 1907. It was originally #31 Amherst Avenue. The first resident was Whatley N. Chandler, a manufacturer.
	This Shingle style house at 6959 Amherst Avenue (originally #25 Amherst Avenue)was one of a group of houses on Amherst built on speculation by the University Heights Realty and Development Company between 1906 and 1907. The first resident was B. Frank Isaacs, an osteopath.
	This Shingle Style house at 6931 Amherst was one of a group of houses built along Amherst in University Heights #1 between 1906 and 1907. This photograph was taken just after the house was destroyed by fire sometime in 1911.
	This Shingle Style house at 6931 Amherst was one of a group of houses built along Amherst in University Heights #1 between 1906 and 1907. This photograph was taken just after the house was destroyed by fire sometime in 1911.
	This Dutch Colonial Revival style house at 6915 Amherst Avenue was one of a row of houses built along Amherst between 1906 and 1907. Architect Herbert C. Chivers was an associate of Edward Gardner Lewis, and architect for the Woman's Magazine Building. Chivers also designed houses, and this house matches his Sambar design on page 366 in "Artistic Homes," his catalogue of house plans published in 1910.
	This Tudor Craftsman style house at 6935 Amherst Avenue was one of a group of houses built along Amherst Avenue in University Heights #1 between 1906 and 1907.
	This Shingle style house at 6955 Amherst Avenue was one of a group of houses on Amherst Avenue built on speculation by the University Heights Realty and Development Company between 1906 and 1907. Some of these houses were sold immediately, but others were rented for the first few years. The first resident of 6955 Amherst was Elmer Fromm, who was associated with the Rice Stix Dry Goods Company.
	This Shingle style house at 6955 Amherst Avenue was one of a group of houses on Amherst Avenue built on speculation by the University Heights Realty and Development Company between 1906 and 1907. Some of these houses were sold immediately, but others were rented for the first few years. The first resident of 6955 Amherst was Elmer Fromm, who was associated with the Rice Stix Dry Goods Company.
	Most of the houses along this block of Amherst Avenue were built on speculation by the University Heights Realty and Development Company and are some of the earliest houses built in University Heights #1. Although a few were sold immediately, several were rented for the first few years. In this photograph taken from the intersection of Amherst Avenue and Radcliffe Avenue in July 1906, the house at 6951 Amherst appears to be complete, but several others along the block are still under construction.
	This Shingle Style house at 6931 Amherst was one of a group of houses built along Amherst in University Heights #1 between 1906 and 1907. This photograph was taken just after the house was destroyed by fire sometime in 1911.
	This Shingle Style house at 6931 Amherst was one of a group of houses built along Amherst in University Heights #1 between 1906 and 1907. The house was destroyed by fire sometime in 1911. In this photograph, water used to fight the fire has frozen on the kitchen range, pipes and light fixture.
	This Shingle style house at 6951 Amherst Avenue was one of a group of houses on Amherst Avenue built on speculation by the University Heights Realty and Development Company between 1906 and 1907. The first resident was E. B. Stinde, an agent for the N. W. Life Insurance Company.

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