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Postcard: "Otter St. Bristol PA"
Written on back of postcard: "We lived just up the street. Bath St. Bristol."
Otter Street at the corner of Bath Street, facing south. It appears that construction on the trolley line is being completed. The trolley visible connected Bristol and Philadelphia. Another line on Bath Street ran to Doylestown. Trolley lines operated from 1900-1932. -
Postcard: "Bath Street, Bristol, PA"
The beginning/end of the trolley line to Doylestown, photograph taken in Bristol. The photograph was taken at Bath and Otter Streets. The Clossen House, later the Keystone Hotel was on the right.
Archive has multiple copies. One has an inscription that reads: “We lived just up the street, Bath Street Bristol.” -
[A steam engine heads north toward Trenton as it crosses the Canal at Mill Street]
This was between locks one and two. The building in the center is the restaurant and hotel located at Mill Street crossing. Otter and Bath Street would be to the left of the picture. W.H.H. Fine was proprietor of this establishment known as the “Railroad House.” -
"P.R.R. Bristol, PA"
Otter Street underpass at U.S. Route 13 of the P.R.R. when it was being elevated, circa 1910-1911. Note the trolley track on the left at street level, which connected Bristol to Philadelphia from (1900-1932). -
"New P.R.R. Bridge over Otter Creek Bristol, Pa."
Construction of the arched bridge over Otter Creek when the Pennsylvania Railroad through Bristol was being elevated (1910-1911). The bridge is located parallel between Otter Street and present (2019) U.S. Route 13. -
[Construction of the elevated Pennsylvania Railroad through Bristol (1910-1911)]
Concrete is being poured for the arched bridge over Otter Creek, located between the present (2019) U.S. Route 13 and Otter Street. -
[Postcard: Pennsylvania Railroad prior to 1911 elevated tracks]
Photograph showing tracks that went through the Old Route 13 and Mill Street crossroad. There were four tracks that went through town. -
[Overflow falls from the canal located just north of Lock # 1]
This was located behind the theater building originally called the Forrest Theater and later The Grand Theater. The water flowed past the old sewage plant into the Otter Creek Marsh area. -
[Otter Creek Marsh, a rare example of a freshwater tidal wetland]
This preserve has a number of rare plants and home for a variety of fish, animals, and birds. Preservation of the marsh was started in the 1980s. It is located adjacent to the Mill Street parking lot, which had formerly served as the Canal Basin for the Delaware Canal. -
[Bridge erected over the former Delaware Canal, opened in 2003]
It had once carried the railroad tracks route between Philadelphia and New York via Bristol until 1911. The bridge was replaced and the original sides were retained, but do not bear weight. Old Route 13 currently passes over the bridge. The red brick structure is the former Grand Theater, which opened in 1928 to replace the much smaller Forest Theater at that location. In 2003, when this photograph was taken, Arnold’s Office Furniture Store was there, later becoming Discover Learn & Grow Early Learning Center. -
[Bridge erected over the former Delaware Canal, opened in 2003]
It had once carried the railroad tracks route between Philadelphia and New York via Bristol until 1911. The bridge was replaced and the original sides were retained but do not bear weight. Old Route 13 currently passes over the bridge. -
[Bridge erected over the former Delaware Canal, opened in 2003]
It had once carried the railroad tracks route between Philadelphia and New York via Bristol until 1911. The bridge was replaced and the original sides were retained, but do not bear weight. Old Route 13 currently passes over the bridge. The red brick structure is the former Grand Theater, which opened in 1928 to replace the much smaller Forest Theater at that location. In 2003, when this photograph was taken, Arnold’s Office Furniture Store was there, later becoming Discover Learn & Grow Early Learning Center. -
[Bridge erected over the former Delaware Canal, opened in 2003]
It had once carried the railroad tracks route between Philadelphia and New York via Bristol until 1911. The bridge was replaced and the original sides were retained, but do not bear weight. Old Route 13 currently passes over the bridge. The red brick structure is the former Grand Theater, which opened in 1928 to replace the much smaller Forest Theater at that location. In 2003, when this photograph was taken, Arnold’s Office Furniture Store was there, later becoming Discover Learn & Grow Early Learning Center. -
[Bridge erected over the former Delaware Canal, opened in 2003]
It had once carried the railroad tracks route between Philadelphia and New York via Bristol until 1911. The bridge was replaced and the original sides were retained, but do not bear weight. Old Route 13 currently passes over the bridge. The red brick structure is the former Grand Theater, which opened in 1928 to replace the much smaller Forest Theater at that location. In 2003, when this photograph was taken, Arnold’s Office Furniture Store was there, later becoming Discover Learn & Grow Early Learning Center. -
[Hotel Closson (Keystone Hotel)]
“For: Ralph Radcliffe” inscribed on back. -
"Canal Bridge, Hotel Closson, Bristol, Pa."
Hotel Closson, viewed over canal bridge that connects Otter and Mill Streets. This was the terminus of the trolley line to Newtown and Philadelphia. The railroad tracks crossing the intersection required that trolley passengers walk across the tracks and continue the journey to Morrisville down Mill Street. -
[Ford car parked next to the former Keystone Hotel which stood at Bath and Otter Streets]
Across the street is the Acme Grocery Market on Bath Street at Otter Street. It appears that a cook and five waitresses are posing outside the hotel (all unidentified). The Keystone Hotel was formerly called the Hotel Closson. -
"Harris Fuels, Inc." [advertisement]
Formerly located at 206 Otter Street, Bristol, PA. -
[Otter Street Ford Agency of Thomas Collier]
Otter Street School is the stone building in the back right of the photograph. -
[Site of the former Otter Street School]
A commercial business has been built around the former school. Otter Street School was built 1854, closed 1881. -
[Landreth Seed Baseball Team 1938]
This photograph was taken on a field between the Pennsylvania Railroad and Otter Street called Sullivan’s Field. The score board is Spencer’s Furniture. Spencer operated a Furniture store at Mill and Radcliffe Streets. Landreth Seed Team was from the Landreth Seed Farm, between Green Lane and Radcliffe Street to the Edgely Section of Bristol Township.
David Landreth is kneeling in front row, 4th from left. The field is now the building of the Penco Tech School.
Top Row: Black, Lolland, Ashby, Dougherty, Greggs, Breslin, VanSant.
Kneeling: Broderick, Carey, Rockhill, D. Landreth, Libertore, Lodge, Costello, Deboskey. -
[Landreth Seed Baseball Team]
Dave Landreth, owner, is seated on the ground in the middle. The field is Sullivan’s Field on Otter Street. The sign says Spencer’s Furniture store at the corner of Mill and Radcliffe Streets. The field has been replaced by a school called Penn Co. Technical School. -
[Intersection of Otter Street at PA Route 413]
The underpass leads to PA Route 413 North. Bristol Cemetery is just beyond the underpass. Turn left and travel to Croydon on US Route 13. The railroad between Washington and New York is over the road. -
[Intersection of Otter Street at PA Route 413]
The underpass leads to PA Route 413 North. Bristol Cemetery is just beyond the underpass. Turn left and travel to Croydon on US Route 13. The railroad between Washington and New York is over the road. -
[400 Otter Street]
Was once the site of Leibfreid Lumber Yard in the early part of the twentieth century. By 1941, Farmers Quality Food & Supply co-occupied the site. By the 1950s, David Landreth operated the Bristol Seed Company. The next occupant in the building adjacent to the street was Bristol Glass. By 2000, Bristol Glass moved to Cedar Street. The middle of these parallel rectangular buildings was removed. In 2001, the property was unoccupied. -
[412 Otter Street]
Home of Peter and Sadie Grosky, who operated Bristol Beef, a slaughterhouse at 533 Maple Street. The house is now listed under the name of Aaron Mittleman, a family member, and the business is now called Bristol Park. The business has been a wholesale meat business (as of 2001). -
[Linden Street looking toward Otter Street from Mifflin Street]
Green Street is on the right, just before the "Do not Enter" sign. -
[Keystone Hotel]
Closson House Hotel at the corner of Bath and Otter Streets--proprietor was Wilson Closson. Between 1900 and 1932 this was the terminus of an electric trolley line that connected Doylestown with Bristol. Later it was called the Keystone Hotel. A fire destroyed it in the 1980s. A new building was erected and it is now the location of the local judge. -
[Innkeeper Arthur Townsend, owner of the Keystone Hotel located at Bath and Otter Streets]
The hotel was formerly called the Hotel Closson. The building was destroyed in November 1980 by fire. In the late 1970s it was renamed Mari’s Closson House.