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[St. George's Methodist Church, 235 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
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Contributor
Smith, Robert, 1722-1777, architect.
Title
[St. George's Methodist Church, 235 North Fourth Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher
[United States]
Publisher
UNITED STATES. 1870
Date
[ca. 1870]
Physical Description
1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 9 x 18 cm. (3.5 x 7 in.)
Description
View of west front of church built 1763-1812 after designs by master builder Robert Smith on North Fourth Street south of New Street. Construction originally commissioned by German Calvinists who could not afford to fund the project to its completion. Unfinished building subsequently purchased in 1769 by Methodists, who held the first conference of American Methodists here in 1773.
Is part of
Unidentified series No. 63
Notes
Title supplied by cataloger.
Upper righthand corner of left albumen print torn.
Tan mount with rounded corners.
Cataloging funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Gift of Robert M. Vogel.
Subject
St. George's Methodist Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Methodist churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject
Fourth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 227.
Fourth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- North -- 235.
Genre
Stereographs -- 1860-1870.
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870.
Associated name
Smith, Robert, 1722-1777, architect.
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Religion [P.9047.131]
Accession number
P.9047.131
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