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 20
ntre of thecity and offers great opportunitiesarchitecturally. It is unfortunatethat it is not nearer the newer andmore rapidly developing centre. Strickland also designed theBlockley Hospital building, whichhas a simple dignity due, to someextent, to its high podium or base-ment, and the Naval… … 336 The beautiful little choragic monument also furnished the motive forthe main building of Girard College by Thomas U. Walter, whichwas begun before the Exchange was finished, though not completed tillsixteen years later, but its use is much less successful. The comparative slenderness of the…
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