212 South Fourth Street, PHILADELPHIA CONTRIBUTIONSHIP FOR THE INSURANCE OF HOUSES FROM LOSS BY FIRE, oldest fire-insurance company in America, founded 1752, by Benjamin Franklin; known as “The Hand-in-Hand,” from its seal; Classic architecture, built, 1835; portraits, Horace Binney by Thomas Sully; painted in 1837, and by George B. A. Healy in 1857; Dr. Charles Willing and Hon. John Welsh by Bernard Uhle; James Lewis Smith by Henry Inman; William Sellers and Ellis Yarnall by Percy Bigland, English; Alexander Biddle, Sydney P. Hutchinson and John T. Morris by Vonnoh; James S. Smith, 2d, by Van Morcken. 218-22 South Fourth Street, site, Edward Shippen mansion; President, Provisional Council, and First Mayor of Philadelphia; his daughter, Peggy Shippen, was married to Benedict Arnold. Southwest corner of Fourth and Prune Streets, or Locust, residence of Dr. Caspar Wistar, in 1799; the garden extended to St. Mary’s churchyard; is now headquarters of the Philadelphia Chapter No. 2 of Colonial Dames. 244-50 South Fourth Street, ST. MARY’S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH, built, 1763, has a fine pieta by Boucher; in the graveyard are the tombs of Commodore Barry and of Thomas Fitzsimmons, members Continental Congress. 338 Spruce Street, residence, Joseph Hopkinson, born 1770, died 1842; author of “Hail! Columbia,” 1798; it was called “The President’s March,” and always sung when Washington held state events; music by Henry Roth; he also wrote “The Battle of the Kegs.” Southwest corner of Fourth and Pine Streets, OLD PINE STREET PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, brick, rough cast; classic; porch with Corinthian columns; built, 1857; graveyard is on both sides; east portion belongs to First Church, west to Old Pine. Southwest corner of Leithgow Street, above Fourth and South Streets, SOUTH STREET THEATRE, 1766-1821; now used as a business building. East side of Leithgow Street, west of Fourth, between South and Bainbridge Streets, site, APOLLO STREET THEATRE, 1811. Spruce to Pine Streets, Third to Fourth, site, OLD ALMSHOUSE, 1731, and PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL, 1732. Northwest corner of Third and Lombard Streets, residence of CHARLES WILLSON PEALE, 1741-1827. Southwest corner of Third and Pine Streets, SAINT PETER’S CHURCH, built, 1761; in the Churchyard are the tombs of Rev. Jacob Duché and Charles Willson Peale, artist, 1741-1827; it is often said, “To belong to old Philadelphia Society one must have an ancestor who entered Paradise through Saint Peter’s graveyard”; (see Churches). Northwest corner of Third and Pine Streets, site, residence of Colonel John Nixon, who read the Declaration of Independence. Northeast corner of Third and Pine Streets, site, residence of Rev. Jacob Duché; later, British Military Hospital. 224 Pine Street, site, residence, Mayor John Stamper, 1760; Governor John Penn died here. “His funeral was very great, making quite a crowd.” 237 DeLancey Street, above Pine, site, residence of Horace Binney, the great lawyer.