Fisher's Lane


Fisher's Lane is a national historic district located on East Logan Street in the Wister neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The district includes 12 contributing buildings and 3 contributing structures in a residential section of Wister. The houses are representative of the Second Empire and Italianate-styles of architecture.
Specific properties include those at numbers 39, 53, 69, 75, and 81 on the northwest side of East Logan Street and 48, 62, 76, 82, and 90-92 on the southeast side. The artist Joseph Pennell lived at 75 East Logan as a teenager. One of his early works depicting "the ugly house across the street" won a prize in a school art show, presented to him by the state.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.