Details
Creator Purviance, W. T. (William T.)
Title Colonnade Hotel [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: Purviance, Philadelphia photographer and publisher
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1870
Date [ca. 1870]
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on photographic mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the luxury hotel completed in 1868 at 1500-1506 Fifteenth Street (southwest corner of Fifteenth and Chestnut streets). The hotel was named after the "Colonnade Row" of early nineteenth-century pillared, porched townhouses previously on the site. The hotel was demolished in 1925 for the erection of the Franklin Trust Company Building.
Is part of Philadelphia and vicinity
Notes Yellow mount with round corners.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Colonnade Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1500-1506.
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - Purviance - Hotels [P.9047.62]
Accession number P.9047.62