Philadelphia’s architecture, by William F. Gray ... written for the City history society of Philadelphia and read at the meeting of Wednesday, February 9th, 1910 (1915)
Gray, William F · Philadelphia, The Society · leaf 15
irenergies in that direction. The Bank of the United States, now the Girard National Bank, onThird Street, built in 1795, is a dignified and well studied composition 330 of its class, with a conscientious reproduction of the Roman Corinthianorder in the portico which forms the motif for the facade.… … <mm THE ARCADE Formerly on the north side of Chestnut Street between Sixth and Seventh. by Sir John Soane, but the more direct inspiration of the United StatesBank was probably the Royal Exchange of earlier date. The architectural projects of the town all take on, from this time, aclassic or…
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