| Creator |
Taylor, Frank H. (Frank Hamilton), 1846-1927 |
| Title |
Once a Fashionable Hotel |
| Date |
ca. 1922 |
| Description |
Depicts a row of residences on the corner of Seventh and Walnut Streets. People stand on the corner, and a horse-drawn carriage
waits in the street.
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| Notes |
The fine, typical old residence here depicted was built about he year 1807 at the southwest corner of Walnut and Seventh Streets
(once known as Columbian Avenue). It was erected by Captain John Meany, and in the sixty years of its existence housed a
numhber of notable families, and was also famed as a fashionable restaurant and hotel. Some of those who lived here were Mr.
Parish, merchant and importer; Lonard Keocker; Dr. John Syng Dorsey (who died here); Dr. George McClellan, father of Gen.
George B. McClellan, who was born in this house. Joseph Head opened the residence in 1824 as a "gentlemen's restaurant and
club house." It was in fact, a predecessor of Mr. Boldt's "Bellevue" of recent memory. In the same year of the "First Troop"
tendered a dinner of historic renown at "Head's" to Gen. Lafayette. A later occupant was Josiah Randall, Esq., who was resident
here when D.J. Kennedy and E.H. Klemroth made the drawings from which this present picture had been painted. The site is
now covered by the building of the Philadelphia Saving Fund Society.
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Taylor Catalog Number: 57 |
| Is part of |
Frank H. Taylor Collection |
| Identifier |
Taylor - Case 9-6 [2717.F] |
