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 19
dignity. The Mint, built five years later, was greatly superior in this respect,in that the Grecian Ionic order which characterized it was used inpedimented porticos, the lines of which were consistently continuedaround the whole building, the sides of which were only properly sub-ordinated to the… … GIRARD COLLEGE Ridge and Girard Avenues. Founded by Stephen Girard. in 1831. Courtesy of John Wanamaker. water works. His earliest architectural essays were the first MasonicTemple (burned in 1819) in the Gothic style; the first Custom House(1819) on Second Street, a plain structure of three…
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