Details
Contributor Packard & Butler, printer.
Mahoney, John T., fl. 1824-1864, architect.
Title St. James Church. West Philada. [graphic] : Rev. F. P. O'Neill, Pastor. / P.
Publisher Philadelphia : Packard & Butler, lith
Date [ca. 1880]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph.
Description View showing the stone edifice of St. James Church, the church's first building, constructed in 1851 after the designs of John T. Mahoney at the southeast corner of Thirty-eighth and Chestnut Streets and two adjacent structures, possibly the church rectory and orphans' home. Shows pedestrians promenading on the sidewalks, including two women walking arm-in-arm along Thirty-eighth Street in the foreground. Also depicts a horse-drawn Chestnut-Walnut Street car travelling west along Chestnut Street. Reverend Francis P. O'Neill served as pastor of the church from 1875 until his death in 1882. Structure demolished in the summer of 1881 for the erection of the Gothic Revival church designed by Edwin F. Durang.
Notes Not in Wainwright.
Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 233
PAHRC: Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. James Church
Subject St. James Catholic Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Roman Catholic churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Street railroads -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Chestnut Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 3728.
West Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Mahoney, John T., fl. 1824-1864, architect.
Location Philadelphia Archdiocesan Historical Research Center.| Graphics Collection. | PAHRC Packard & Butler, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, St. James Church