Exterior view of the Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church,, Exterior, oblique view looking southwest at the two-story Roman Corinthian church and rotunda of the Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church, erected in 1853 after the designs of Stephen Decatur Button. Corinthian pilasters and narrow, arched windows adorn the front facade, which is surmounted by a dome and lantern made of wood and tin. An ornate iron railing extends south from the church to the partially visible adjacent three-story row house at 1528 North Eleventh Street. Includes five pedestrians (two couples and a woman) walking on the sidewalk in front of the church. Purportedly the first, and possibly only, Methodist Church in Philadelphia to have a dome or spire. A fire destroyed this first structure on January 18, 1857, and a second church, modeled on the first building, was completed in 1858., Dated supplied by Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 739, For architectural descriptions of the exteriors and interiors of the 1853 and 1858 church structures, see Poulson's Scrapbook of Philadelphia History, vol. VIII, p. 10, and vol. X, p. 65 (LCP reference copy Uy 8, 2526.F)., Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator
Watson, John Frampton, artist
Date
[ca. 1854]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W361 [P.2259]
