A guide book of art, architecture, and historic interests in Pennsylvania
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A guide book of art, architecture, and historic interests in Pennsylvania
Architecture -- Pennsylvania; Art -- Pennsylvania; Historic buildings -- Pennsylvania; Pennsylvania -- Guidebooks; Pennsylvania -- History
Rehoboth Methodist Church, formed in 1830; used the old Academy; the
Supreme Court met here in 1800; now on Paul Street below Unity Street;
present building Spanish architecture, dark brick, erected, 1879. St.
Mark’s Protestant Episcopal Church was a Mission of Trinity, Oxford;
started in 1709; present church, Frankford Avenue below Sellers Street,
erected in 1908; English, Fourteenth century Gothic; Port Deposit
granite with Indiana limestone trimmings; architects, Watson and Huckle;
windows by D’Ascenzo and Tiffany. Frankford Presbyterian Church, corner
of Frankford Avenue and Church Street, was originally German Reformed;
corner-stone laid, 1770; for many years the church was supplied with a
preacher from the Market Square Church, Germantown; present building
erected, 1859; architect, McArthur. St. Joachim’s Roman Catholic Church,
corner of Church and Franklin Streets, built, 1874; Gothic, brownstone
and sandstone; has a very beautiful tower, resembling that of Magdalen
College, Oxford; architect, Edwin Durang; contains three carved marble
altars; also a large mosaic, and memorial windows from Munich.
Automobile, north from Centre Bridge, River Road, to DURHAM, commands
some of the most beautiful views in eastern Pennsylvania; through
LUMBERVILLE, Devil’s Half Acre; right, at Like Kiln, site of important
Indian fishing village, many relics have been found here. POINT
PLEASANT, mouth of Tohickon Creek, Indians quarried argillite rock for
blade material; RIDGES ISLAND, Indian village site; grave of Edward
Marshall of the “Indian Walk,” in his family graveyard. Tinicum Creek,
picturesque gorges, ringing rocks, cliffs of the narrows, with fine view
from Table Rock, very rare “ice plant” grows here. Hill Presbyterian
Church, built, 1761, on Durham Road near OTTSVILLE.
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