Community Corner
Then and Now: Answer Edition
A look at the answer to, and the winner of, last week's contest.
Reader was the quickest to the draw in contest, correctly identifying the backdrop of the football picture as being what is now the Phoenixville Hospital complex.
The full explanation, via the Phoenixville Historical Society:
This photograph was taken at what is now the Phoenixville Hospital complex. Nutt Rd. is to the left, and the view faces east towards Main Street. To the right is the old hospital in 1913.
This Phoenix High team of 1913 was proclaimed the champion of Chester County. In 1911 the ‘new’ Senior High School had been dedicated. It stood nearby to this field at the intersection of Nutt Road and Gay Street. The nicest feature of the school’s using this field was its perfect accessibility to nearly everyone, the trolley line running directly up to the entrance.
