City Directories and History: Lynch Deas House – This was one of the first houses built in the Kirkwood neighborhood, circa 1850, not as a summer house, but as a handsome and substantial year-round residence. Its two-story portico and tall proportions are similar to the Kershaw-Cornwallis house (see No. 1), both fine examples of Georgian style of architecture. It was long the home of the Shannon family. [Courtesy of the Camden Tour Book]
The Lynch Deas House was completed about 1853. Born in 1807,
Deas arrived in Camden in the 1830’s where he established a physician’s office. A Mr. Hamilton, a Philadelphia architect, prepared the plans of the house. Deas resided in the house until about 1884, when the Lang family acquired the property. C.J. Shannon, President of the First National Bank, Springs & Shannon, Inc., and Camden Loan & Realty Company, was the next owner. The Shannon family sold the house in 1961 to W.W. Wanamaker, III, and the Chesnuts acquired it in 1972. [Camden Archives and Museum]
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