Details
Creator Quintin, David S., artist.
Contributor Duval, Peter S., 1804 or 5-1886, printer.
Title United States Hotel Chesnut [sic] Street, Philadelphia. [graphic] : This hotel under the presant [sic] management has under gone many important alterations and has been entirely refurnished with rich and elegant furniture. The situation of the house is acknowledged by all to be the most favourable of any in the city for either the man of business of pleasure. The proprietor respectfully solicits the patronage of friends and the public. Thomas C. Rea / From nature & on stone by D. S. Quintin.
Publisher Philadelphia: P. S. Duval, Lith
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1840
Date [ca. 1840]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph; 31 x 44 cm. (12.25 x 17.38 in.)
Description Advertisement looking east down Chestnut Street showing the large, prominent hotel opened in 1826 following the conversion by John Rea of several properties at 419-423 Chestnut Street. Gentlemen convene near the entranceway and portico of the hotel in front of which a carriage is parked. On the north side of the street, east of the hotel, several individuals, including couples and families, promenade and converse on the several blocks of businesses visible to the riverfront. Opposite the hotel, on the south side of the street, a couple promenades and boys play marbles in front of the former Second Bank of the United States (420 Chestnut) as another couple and several shadowy figures of pedestrians walk down the sidewalks in the background. In the street, a couple on horseback, an omnibus, and carriage travels. Also shows a partial view of the Farmers & Mechanics Bank (425-429) adjacent the hotel and a few trees and street lamps landscaping the street. A patron ascends the stairs to the bank. The hotel, altered in 1840, was demolished in 1856 for the erection of the new building for the Bank of Pennsylvania. Thomas C. Rea, son of John Rea, operated the property until his death in 1846.
Is referenced by Wainwright 417
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POS 779
Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Subject Bank of the United States (1816-1836)
United States Hotel (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Farmers & Mechanics Bank (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horse-drawn vehicles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Marbles -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Horseback riding -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Genre Lithographs -- 1830-1840.
Advertisements -- 1830-1840.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *W417 [P.2228]
Accession number P.2228