Details
Contributor Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, architect.
Title [Residence, corner of Walnut Lane and Greene Street, Germantown, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1865
Date [ca. 1865]
Physical Description 1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 8.5 x 17.5 cm. (3.25 x 7 in.) (stereograph format)
Description View showing a man leaning against the gate of a Gothic-style residence built in Germantown after the designs of Samuel Sloan. The design of the residence is a near mirror of another commissioned by Chestnut Hill developer Charles Taylor and built at Chestnut Hill and Norwood Avenues in 1861 after the designs of Samuel Sloan. Mirrored architectural details included recessed gable fronts on opposite sides of the house.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Creme mount with square corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Image previously misidentified as "Charles Taylor residence, northwest corner of Chestnut Hill and Norwood Avenues, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia." The Chestnut Hill property was sold to Horace Brown in the fall of 1861 and was later purchased by Dr. Robert Bolling and then Colonel George H. North in 1883. The residence was demolished in 1928.
Subject Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Walnut Lane (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- at Green Street.
Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Genre Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Residences [8353.F.17]
Accession number 8353.F.17