In the early 19^th century, many well-to-do

families built row houses between and on the

sites of once spacios estates. Servants and

tradesmen, who found jobs within the wealthy

houses, lived conveniently nearby, often,

according to local folklore, on Acorn Street in

these smaller versions of Chestnut Street

houses.

Nearby Branch Street, known as Kitchen Street

in the early decades of the 1800s, contained

kitchens adjacent to the rear of Beacon and

Chestnut Street homes

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