View of the altered first building of the Chestnut Street Theater, at Chestnut above Sixth Street, the front facade redesigned by Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1805 with columns flanked by wings. The most lavish and first gas-lit theater in the country, opened in 1794, was destroyed by fire on April 2, 1820, and rebuilt after the designs of William Strickland in 1822. Depicts several individuals, predominately couples, strolling and convening near the theater. A horse-drawn carriage, with three people, travels in the street., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, with corrections.
Creator
Fox, Gilbert, 1776-1807?, etcher
Date
[1828]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's Views [Sn 32b/P.2276.68]
Street scene on Chestnut Street below Sixth Street with views of Independence Hall (completed in 1748), and the adjacent Congress Hall (Town Hall), completed in 1789 as a county courthouse, and used by Congress from 1790 to 1800. Depicts several men convened outside Congress Hall; couples strolling the sidewalk; and horse-drawn carriages, a man on horseback, and a boy with a dog traversing the street. Includes view of the building originally built as a city hall, and used as the seat of the Supreme Court from 1790 to 1800., Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Creator
Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Date
[1804]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Birch's views [Sn 33/P.2276.69]
