Details
Creator Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834.
Title Masonic Hall in Chesnut [sic] Street, Philadelphia 1810 [graphic].
Publisher [Philadelphia: W. Birch]
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1809
Date [1809]
Physical Description 1 print: engraving; 30 x 25 cm. (12 x 10 in.)
Description View, possibly from an architectural drawing, of the front facade of the hall, completed in 1811 purportedly after the designs of William Strickland, at Chestnut Street above Seventh Street. The hall, rebuilt in 1820 following a fire the previous year, was demolished in 1853.
Is part of City of Philadelphia in the State of Pennsylvania, North America, as it appeared in the year 1800. 2nd ed., continued by a supplement.
Is referenced by Snyder, "William Birch: His Philadelphia Views" 44a.
Notes Possibly proof copy.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Subject Fraternal lodges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- above Seventh Street.
Genre Engravings -- 1810-1820.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Birch's views [Sn 44a/P.8726]
Accession number P.8726