Hill Top Research history

He served as Denver’s chief draftsman for 40 years, and was badly burned when he ran into a blazing city hall to rescue engineering records in 1901.

In 1926 the city’s proposal to open the property as “Public Highway and Street” was dismissed.

Hilltop Lab Animals, Inc. began operations in 1928, and quickly developed a reputation for supplying quality research animals at reasonable prices.

Several pieces were sold privately, and in 1937 the rest of the strip was sold for $100 to its president, Henry Wolcott Toll, who sold it off, piecemeal, to adjacent householders.

However, at 344 Cherry Street a small house built in 1938 by Herbert Brock was tucked into a 42-foot space – the reserved strip plus 12 feet of the lot to the north.

Tolls sons, Henry and Giles, tell about an altercation that arose in 1946 between their father and his old East High School rival, George Cranmer, the Manager of Improvements and Parks.

By the mid-1950’s the original residents had moved to other areas of the city, and the new culturally diverse residents attempted to join a community that actively cherished a history and a culture that predated the new residents’ arrival.

In the late 1960’s, the Greater Philadelphia area saw an increase in private schools designed for elementary aged children with learning differences.

By the 1970’s, development all but ceased entirely.

Fisher realize her goal on September 12, 1971, with the opening of The Hill Top Preparatory School.

In 1976, Hill Top opened the doors to its new home in Rosemont, PA.

For example, in 1982, during the sale of a house built partially on Thrice Place, a realtor was informed by the Department of Public Works that the house had been built over an existing eight-inch city sewer line without permission.