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 5
ally be occupied in the contest with the material conditions, and whenthere is added a great struggle for political existence, it is not to bewondered that the drain of money and energy precluded any markedattention to the less essential considerations of art and literature, or evenscience. The… … GLORIA DEI CHURCH, KNOWN AS OLD SWEDES Swanson Street below Christian.It is the oldest church in Philadelphia, dating from 1698.Courtesy of John IVanamaker. country, and while here and there in the colonies a limner found ascant livelihood in the making of family portraits, and the country…
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