Details
Contributor Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, architect.
Le Brun & Runge, architect.
Title [Horticultural Hall and Academy of Music, South Broad Street, Philadelphia] [graphic].
Publisher [United States]
Publisher UNITED STATES. 1875
Date [ca. 1875]
Physical Description 1 photographic print : albumen on stereograph mount ; 10 x 18 cm. (4 x 7 in.)
Description View looking northwest showing the front facades of Horticultural Hall and the Academy of Music on the 200 block of South Broad Street. Also shows row houses north of Locust Street on the west side of the block in the right background. Horticultural Hall, the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's headquarters on South Broad Street, was constructed after designs by Samuel Sloan in 1867. A fire destroyed this hall in early 1881, and it was rebuilt in 1882 after designs by Addison Hutton. Architects Napoleon LeBrun and Gustav Runge formed a short-lived partnership to win the design competition to build the sandstone Italaniate Academy of Music, constructed from 1855-1857.
Is part of New Excelsior Series. Fine American Views. Philadelphia, Penn'a.
Notes Title supplied by cataloger.
Manuscript note on verso: South Broad St.
Orange curved 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 Academy of Music (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society -- Buildings.
Concert halls -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Opera houses -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Organizations' facilities -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 220-230.
Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 232-246.
Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 250.
Genre Stereographs -- 1870-1880.
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880.
Associated name Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, architect.
Associated name Le Brun & Runge, architect.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| stereo - unidentified - Streets [P.9047.90]
Accession number P.9047.90