Details
Creator Rease & Schell.
Contributor Johnston, William L., 1811-1849, architect.
Keely, Patrick Charles, 1816-1896, architect.
McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, architect.
Title Odd Fellows' Broadway Hall. Broad & Spring Garden Streets, Philadelphia. [graphic].
Publisher Philadelphia: From nature and on stone by Rease & Schell 17 So. 5th St
Date [ca. 1855]
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph, hand-colored; 45 x 60 cm.(18 x 23.5 in.)
Description View looking east down Spring Garden Street from Broad Street showing the Odd Fellows Hall at the northeast corner of Spring Garden and Broad streets (400 block N. Broad). A horse-drawn carriage is parked and another passes in front of the hall enlarged in 1853 after the designs of Samuel Sloan for the benevolent and charitable organization, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. The roof of the building is adorned with statues representing Charity and Hope, tenets of the organization and red drapes are visible in the second floor windows. The busy street also includes a couple with their son walking their dog; a gentleman and woman on horseback; a hurried surrey; an omnibus pulled by a horse-team dressed in regalia traveling in front of the Spring Garden Institute (northwest corner Spring Garden and Broad); and men talking near the fountain completed in 1853 in the center of the block of Spring Garden. Also shows partial views of the Spring Garden Commissioners Hall (built 1848, 1300 block Spring Garden, William. L. Johnston, archt.); the Church of the Assumption (1131-1133 Spring Garden, built 1848-1849, Patrick Keely, archt.) and St. Mark's Lutheran Church (N. 13th and Spring Garden, built 1850-1851, John McArthur, Jr., archt.).
Is referenced by Wainwright 257
Notes Manuscript note on verso: Mr. Rinear 1/2 [cent] silver. $1.50 called for.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 517
Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 051 B 863
Trimmed.
Subject Independent Order of Odd Fellows -- Buildings.
Fraternal organizations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
City & town halls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Technical institutes -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Fountains -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 400 block.
Spring Garden Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 1300 block.
Genre Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1850-1860.
Associated name Johnston, William L., 1811-1849, architect.
Associated name Keely, Patrick Charles, 1816-1896, architect.
Associated name McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Associated name Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, architect.
Location Historical Society of Pennsylvania | HSP Bc 051 B 863