- Brower Funeral Home Could Be The Site Of Homes In The Future
The 4.522 acre parcel of ground in the 900 block of South Providence Road, Nether Providence Township, formerly known as the Brower Funeral Home, maybe destined to be the site of new homes in the future.
At the August 2nd Board Of Commissioners meeting the future usage of the site came under discussion. The property is now in the hands of a bank, and currently For Sale signs can be seen on the property. Nether Providence Township manager Gary Cummings indicated that the new owner may be interested in subdividing the site and building three homes there.
A subdivision proposal for the property was approved several years ago, but has long since expired and the project would have to once again undergo such a review according to Cummings.
In December 2007, the funeral home’s then-owner, James Brower, and his wife, Gloriann, filed suit in the county Court of Common Pleas, seeking to challenge a longstanding deed restriction limiting residential development and barring most kinds of commercial development in the area. In response area neighbors asked the township to intervene and fight efforts to remove the deed restriction.
The neighborhood involved is part of Lapidea Manor, the former estate of Governor William C. Sproul, who was governor of Pennsylvania from 1919 to 1923, and passed away in 1928. Under a deed restriction put in place by Sproul’s heirs, only single or semi-detached private dwellings may be built on any of the lots there within 250 feet of any property line.
One exception is that no more than three “public garages, gasoline filling or automobile service stations” can be built but only within 125 feet fronting on Providence Road, and they must conform to “high-grade community development,” according to the deed restriction.
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