Creator |
Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927 |
Title |
The Herkness Bazaar |
Date |
ca. 1922 |
Description |
View of a rotunda-shaped building, identified as the Herkness Bazaar, and adjacent buildings. A sign on the building beside
the rotunda advertises the Walnut Street Theatre.
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Notes |
The interesting structure upon Ninth Street, adjoining the Walnut Street Theatre, known for generations as the Herkness Bazaar,
has been removed in the present year (1915). This building was erected prior to 1847 for the exhibition of a Cyclorama of
Jerusalem. In that year it was bought by Alfred M. Herkness as a sales mart for horses and vehicles, and the business was
continued by a surviving son until 1913. This bazaar is supposed by many persons to have been the old Baptist building, erected
in 1812 and long popular as "Dr. Stoughton's church," which was also a rotunda in form. There is conclusive evidence, however,
to show that the latter stucture was situated in the middle of the block, upon Sansom Street below Ninth Street.
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Taylor Catalog Number: 37 |
Is part of |
Frank H. Taylor Collection |
Identifier |
Taylor - Case 7-9 [2717.F] |