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
Fourth Street above Race, St. Augustine’s Roman Catholic Church, 1796;
destroyed in the riot of 1844; rebuilt in 1846.
Old St. John’s Church, Race Street between Fifth and Sixth; first
English Lutheran Church in America, built 1806.
Southeast corner of Fourth and Cherry Streets, site Zion Lutheran Church
(German), built 1766; in 1790 its organ was considered the finest in
America.
Northeast corner of Fourth and Arch Streets, James Russell Lowell stayed
here with his bride in 1845.
Southeast corner of Fourth and Arch Streets, Friends meeting-house;
oldest in Philadelphia, built in 1804; since 1811 it has been used for
the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Orthodox Friends, and is said to be
largest in the world. (See Historic Burial Grounds.)
Southwest corner of Fourth and Arch Streets, site of residence built for
William Smith, D.D., before 1762. First provost of the University of
Pennsylvania.
Fourth Street, west side, below Arch, site of the Academy in 1749;
beginning of the University, marked with tablet.
Southeast corner of Fifth and Arch Streets, Christ Church burial ground.
(See Burial Grounds.)
Southwest corner of Fifth and Arch Streets, Free Quaker Building;
tablet, inscription “By general subscription for the Free Quakers;
erected in the year of our Lord 1783, and of the Empire 8.” “Fighting
Quakers,” who fought in the Revolutionary War against peace principles
of the sect. The Apprentices’
[Illustration: BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
From the collection in Independence Hall
_Painted by B. T. Welch_]
Library, organized 1820 in Carpenters’ Hall, for many years only free
library in Philadelphia, occupied the building after 1850. Later used by
the Grand Lodge of Masons.
515 Cherry Street, residence of Bass Otis in 1819, who made the first
American lithograph.
528 Arch Street, site, Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, first in
Philadelphia, founded 1852; now absorbed by the University of
Pennsylvania.
627 Arch Street, site, Woman’s Medical College, first in America to
graduate women physicians, founded 1850.
Southeast corner of Seventh and Arch Streets, residence of David
Rittenhouse in 1770.
Northwest corner of Seventh and Arch Streets, Fort Rittenhouse;
residence of David Rittenhouse, 1787; treasurer of Pennsylvania.
117 North Seventh Street, site, Mikveh Israel Synagogue, built in 1747.
Removed to Broad and York Streets.
37-39 North Seventh Street, first United States Mint, 1792. David
Rittenhouse, superintendent.
Southeast corner of Sixth and Market Streets, site of Robert Morris
residence; next to it, on Market Street, 530-536, site of President
Washington’s mansion and John Adams, second President; originally built
for Richard Penn.
700 Market Street, Penn National Bank. House where Thomas Jefferson
wrote the Declaration of Independence.
801 Market Street, site, office of Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of
State.
About 808 Market Street, site, residence of Thomas Jefferson, in 1791.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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