View showing the abandoned Pine Street Meeting House built 1752 after the designs of Robert Smith on the 100 block of Pine Street. A brick wall covered in disintegrating broadsides stands in front of the building. Also includes a partial view of the former residence of Marquis de Yrujo, Spanish Minster to the United States 1795-1808. Meeting house was razed circa 1861., Title and photographer's imprint from Poulson inscription on mount., Date inscribed on photograph., Poulson inscription on mount: [See my ms copy of "Lang Syne papers" Art. "Washington" Vol. II, p. 27.], Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 11, p. 65. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Published in Charles Peterson's Robert Smith architect, builder, patriot 1722-1777 (Philadelphia: The Atheneum of Philadelphia, 2000), p. 37., Published in Robert F. Looney's Old Philadelphia in Early Photographs 1839-1914 (New York: Published in copperation with The Free Library of Philadelphia by Dover Publications, Inc., 1976), plate 40.
Creator
Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg), photographer
Date
March 1859
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department photo - Richards -- Churches and meetinghouses - [(3)2526.F.65 (Poulson)]
