The House of Samuel Powel
Erected by the Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Dames of America to mark the house of Samuel Powel (1738–1793) Mayor of Philadelphia from 1775 to 1776 and after the Revolution from 1789 to 1790.
Washington and Lafayette were frequent visitors in this house, now restored as a memorial to Samuel Powel and his wife Elizabeth Willing and maintained by The Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks.
Marker is on South 3rd Street north of Spruce Street, on the left when traveling north.
Courtesy hmdb.org
