Details
Title La Pierre House, Academy of Natural Sciences, and Union League, Broad St., below Chestnut, Phila[delphia] Pa. [graphic].
Publisher United States
Date ca. 1875
Physical Description 1 photographic print: albumen on stereograph mount; 9 x 18 cm.(3.5 x 7 in.)
Description View showing the La Pierre House hotel, the second building of the Academy of Natural Sciences museum, and the Union League on the west side of the 100 block of South Broad Street. The hotel, completed in 1853 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John McArthur, was expanded and renamed Lafayette Hotel in 1876. The second building of the Academy, completed in 1840 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Notman, and expanded in 1852, housed the museum until 1876. The Union League, established to raise money and recruits for the Union cause, was completed in 1865 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Fraser. Includes horse-drawn carriages parked in front of the buildings.
Is part of American scenery. 27
Notes Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
La Pierre House (Hotel : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Union League of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
Museums and galleries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 100 block -- West side.
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Fraser, John, 1825-1906, architect.
Associated name McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Associated name Notman, John, 1810-1865, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9260.2]
Accession number P.9260.2