History & local legend
Cedar Grove was built in 1746 for Elizabeth Coates Paschall, a healer and member of a Philadelphia family whose descendants occupied the house for generations. It originally stood in Frankford before being moved to West Fairmount Park in the 1920s.
An account printed in the 1899 edition of Some Colonial Mansions and Those Who Lived in Them places Elizabeth's ghost at the original house. She is described watching children from an attic window and appearing on the stairs near the dining room, where family meals had once brought her children together.
Those scenes belong to the house's Frankford years, before the relocation. Among its surviving possessions is Elizabeth's book of medicinal remedies.
