conception, full of dignity and repose, and forms a most successful termination to the vista when viewed from Rittenhouse Street. UNITED STATES MINT, Seventeenth and Spring Garden Streets, built, 1898; light gray granite; architect, James Knox Taylor. =Moorish.= HORTICULTURAL HALL, Fairmount Park; built, 1876; architect, Herman J. Schwarzmann. RODEPH SHALOM SYNAGOGUE, Mt. Vernon and North Broad Streets. =Byzantine.= FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, Seventeenth Street above Chestnut, stone; Edgar V. Seeler, architect. JACOB REED’S SONS, store, 1424 Chestnut Street, brick, marble, and tile; built, 1904; Price & McLanahan, architects; façade is one of the most interesting in the city; the column caps are symbolic of the business conducted therein, as is also the tile work on the intrados of the arch, which depicts the shearing and manufacturing of wool and has the richness of an Oriental rug. =Gothic.= ACADEMY OF THE FINE ARTS, Broad and Cherry Streets, Venetian polychrome Gothic, brick, limestone, and tile; architects, Furness & Hewitt; façade is interesting, as the most prominent example of the Venetian Gothic style, used in Philadelphia in the latter part of the nineteenth century. BROAD AND ARCH STREETS METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH, white marble. ST. CLEMENT’S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Twentieth and Cherry Streets, Norman; built, 1857; brownstone; architect, John Notman; later improvements; new roof; apse; Lady chapel and parish buildings by Horace Wells Sellers. ST. JAMES’ PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Twenty-second and Walnut Streets, English decorated Gothic, with sculptured band around the tower; Ohio green sandstone and granite; architect, G. W. Hewitt. ST. LUKE’S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Germantown Avenue and Coulter Street, granite and limestone; architect, Richard Upjohn of New York, who first used the principles of Gothic architecture in America; rectory, St. Margaret’s Home, parish house, and the rood screen in the church are by Cope & Stewardson; organ screen is by Pierson. ST. MARK’S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Locust Street below Seventeenth, early decorated Gothic; brownstone; architect, John Notman; later improvements include the Lady chapel, architects, Cope & Stewardson. SECOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, Twenty-first and Walnut Streets, French, with early English details; resembles the Parish Church in Norfolk, England; architect, Henry Sims. ST. STEPHEN’S PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH, Tenth Street above Chestnut, early Gothic, with two octagonal towers; stone; interior decorated by Frank Furness; rich and unusual color. SOUTH MEMORIAL CHURCH OF THE ADVOCATE, Eighteenth and Diamond Streets, French; architect, C. M. Burns; built, 1897; interior profusely adorned with carving; windows by Clayton & Bell.