Details
Creator Breton, William L., artist.
Contributor Kennedy & Lucas's Lithography, printer.
Title Residence of Washington in High Street, Philada.; British Barracks, Philadelphia. [graphic] / W.L. Breton delt.
Publisher Philadelphia. Kennedy & Lucas, lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1830
Date [1830]
Physical Description 2 prints (1 sheet): lithograph; 10 x 15 cm. (4 x 6 in.)
Description View showing the house, also known as the Robert Morris House, built circa 1767-1768 at 526-530 Market Street, resided in by the president during construction of the executive mansion on Ninth Street. The walled garden adjacent the residence and the neighboring Sheaff's Wine Store (512 Market) are also visible. Includes pedestrian traffic of two men with canes. The residence burned in 1780 and was demolished in 1803.
View showing the barracks built in 1757 in Northern Liberties for the quartering of British soldiers. Infantrymen drill across from a soldier presiding over a cannon in the courtyard of the buildings. The Barracks extended between Second, Third, Tammany, and Green streets and were razed soon after the American Revolution.
Notes Plate published in John F. Watson's Annals of Philadelphia...(Philadelphia: E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1830), opp. p. 361.
Manuscript note below images: different from 2 book.
Philadelphia on Stone
POS 644a&b. POS 644a: Residence. POS 644b: British Barracks.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Gift of James Rush.
Residence view reproduced in Edward Lawler Jr.'s "The President's house In Philadelphia: The rediscovery of a lost landmark." Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (January 2002), pp. 5-95.
Subject Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Homes and haunts.
Barracks -- British -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Northern Liberties (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Market Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 526-530.
Green Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 200 block.
Genre Lithographs -- 1820-1830.
Book illustrations -- 1820-1830.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| BW - Residence [9245.Q.31a&b]
Accession number 9245-Q-31ab
9245.Q.31a
9245.Q.31b