View of the tree-lined street with the Federal style mansion of wealthy legislator, William Bingham, built in 1789, and the Powel House, residence of Mayor Samuel Powel, built after the designs of Robert Smith in 1765. Depicts street and pedestrian traffic including several women promenading with escorts, a man in military uniform, a woman holding a baby, and a horse-drawn carriage. The Bingham Mansion, converted to the Mansion House Hotel in 1807, was razed about 1850.The Powel House, was designated a historic landmark in 1931., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited., Illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 18.
Creator
W. Birch & Son
Date
[1800]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 18/P.2276.40]
