| Creator |
Bartlett & French, photographer. |
| Contributor |
McAllister, John A. 1822-1896, collector. |
|
Sloan & Stewart, architect. |
| Title |
[Masonic Hall, Chestnut Street below Eighth, Philadelphia] [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[Philadelphia] |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1863 |
| Date |
[ca. 1868] |
| Physical Description |
1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.25 x 6.75 in.) |
| Description |
View looking east from below Eighth Street showing the Masonic Hall at 713-721 Chestnut. The hall, built 1853-1855 after the
designs of Sloan & Stewart, was razed by fire in 1886. Shows adjacent and tenant businesses, including Marxsen & Witte, china
and glass (713 Chestnut); H. A. Osterle & Co., trimmings; and Marvin & Co., safes (721 Chestnut).
|
| Notes |
Title supplied by cataloguer. |
|
Yellow paper mount with square corners. |
|
Attributed to Bartlett & French. |
|
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with edited. |
|
Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia. |
|
Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the
19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 83.
|
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Arcadia caption text: In 1855 the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania opened a new hall on the north side
of the 700 block of Chestnut Street, the site of an earlier Masonic Hall. The Masons occupied the top three floors of the
Gothic brownstone building, designed by Philadelphia architect and Mason Samuel Sloan, and rented the first floor out to commercial
tenants. Initial enthusiasm for the building faded quickly as problems with water in the basement and poorly ventilated rooms
became apparent. By the time of this c. 1868 view, a Masonic committee had described the building as “a gross failure both
in its plan and its construction.”
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Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012. |
| Subject |
H. A. Osterle & Co. |
|
Marxsen & Witte. |
|
Marvin & Co. |
|
Masonic buildings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Fraternal lodges -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Commercial streets -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Stores & shops -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Safes. |
|
Tableware industry -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
|
Trimmings stores -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 713-721. |
|
Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 700 block -- North side. |
| Genre |
Stereographs -- 1860-1870. |
|
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
| Associated name |
Sloan & Stewart, architect. |
| Provenance |
McAllister, John A. (John Allister), 1822-1896, collector. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Bartlett & French - Associations [(8)1322.F.27b] |
| Accession number |
(8)1322.F.27b |
