Crestmont Farms, Philadelphia
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Crestmont Farms is an affluent small residential neighborhood in the
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, east of Knights Road. The housing consists of single homes. According to an ad in the ''Evening Bulletin'', June 19, 1926, Crestmont Farms was originally a farm that was divided into 70 single home sites. Thomas R. Coale (spelling?) was the developer and president of the Crestmont Farms Improvement Company. Nearby Frankford Hospital Torresdale Campus (now
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) was the site of the summer home of Saint Katherine Drexel's family, of which the original structure remains; the area of Crestmont Farms was part of that estate. {{NEPhila Neighborhoods in Philadelphia Northeast Philadelphia