Exterior view looking northeast at the first Philadelphia Gas Works, expanded in 1850 after the designs of John C. Cresson, the second chief engineer of the gas works. View includes the coal stores, retort house, lime and coke sheds, lime kilns and house, purifying houses, gasholders, and railroad tracks situated on the 2200-2300 blocks of Market Street immediately east of the Market Street Permanent Bridge. The gas works were originally completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer Samuel V. Merrick. A second facility, the Point Breeze Gas Works, was built 1851-1854 at Passyunk and Schuylkill avenues after the designs of engineer John C. Cresson., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 588, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc885 B786.
Date
[ca. 1852]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W288 [P.2124]
Plan of the first Philadelphia Gas Works, expanded in 1850 after the designs of Cresson, the second chief engineer of the gas works, near the Schuylkill River on the 2200-2300 blocks of Market Street. Diagrams the coal stores, retort house, lime and coke sheds, lime kilns and house, purifying houses, gasholders, and railroad tracks. Includes a "References" key to coded symbols of buildings, including valve houses and meters. Works originally completed in 1834 after the designs of engineer Samuel V. Merrick ., Date inscribed on recto., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 332, Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Friend & Aub
Date
Feb. 11, 1851
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Public Utilities [(7)1322.F.91]
