Details
Creator Geo. H. Walker & Co.
Contributor Wills, Frank, 1822-1856, architect.
Title Sacred Heart Convent, "Eden Hall." Torresdale, Pa. [graphic]
Publisher Boston: Geo. H. Walker & Co
Publisher MA. Boston. 1885
Date [ca. 1885]
Physical Description 1 print: lithograph, tinted with one stone; 52 x 65 cm. (20.5 x 26 in.)
Description View of the girls boarding school and convent administered by the Society of Sacred Heart Sisters that was built 1849-1850 after the designs of Frank Wills at 4800 Grant Avenue in Northeast Philadelphia. The stone building contains several wings and a chapel. Crosses adorn the roofs. Girls play on the grounds landscaped with trees. Also shows a woman and child walking up the path to the school entrance and a man with a horse-drawn wagon near the chapel. A border, arched at the top with simple art details, frames the image. The society purchased the Torresdale estate of F. Cowperthwait in 1847 and operated a school on the property until 1969.
Notes Philadelphia on Stone
POSP 199
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Biographical / historical note Walker & Co., the Boston lithography firm established in 1879, sought the patronage of Roman Catholic clergy in the early 1880s.
Subject Eden Hall (Torresdale, Pa.)
Boarding schools -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Convents -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Grant Avenue (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- 4800.
Torresdale (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Lithographs -- Tinted -- 1880-1890.
Associated name Wills, Frank, 1822-1856, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **BW - Religion - Sacred Heart Convent [P.9372]
Accession number P.9372