Rooftop view from the La Pierre House Hotel at Broad and Sansom streets showing North Broad Street. View includes: the Seventh Presbyterian Church at the northeast corner of Chestnut and Broad streets; Arch Street Methodist Episcopal Church (built 1869-70) at 55-65 N. Broad Street; and the tree-covered North and South Penn Squares (removed circa 1871 for the construction of City Hall). Also shows freight cars traveling past the Seventh Presbyterian Church on Chestnut Street and north on North Broad Street en route to the freight depot of the Reading Railroad at the corner of Cherry and Broad streets., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Title printed on mount., Purple mount with rounded corners., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphia's Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 116., Arcadia caption text: Taken from the rooftop of the La Pierre House Hotel at Broad and Sansom streets, the left view shows Penn Square shortly before it was removed in 1871 for the construction of the new City Hall designed by Philadelphia architect John McArthur, Jr. ..., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Simons, M. P. (Montgomery P.), photographer
Date
ca. 1870
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Simons - Streets [(8)1322.F.17a]
