View showing the building known incorrectly as the Letitia Penn House on Letitia Street between Market and Chestnut streets. The misidentified residence, purportedly built in 1682 by William Penn and given to his daughter in 1701, was relocated to Fairmount Park in 1883. A torn Civil War broadside adorns the side of the house. View also includes the adjacent William Penn Hotel., Trimmed yellow mount with square corners., Title supplied by cataloguer., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook., Reproduced in Joseph Jackson's America's most historic highway (Philadelphia: John Wanamaker, 1926), p. 32., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
ca. 1863
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Residences [(6)1322.F.60c]
View photographed during the 1860s showing the building incorrectly identified by 19th-century historians as the Letitia Penn House at 8 Letitia Street between Market and Chestnut streets. Signs for V. Rundangel's German saloon and Jacob Sinn, importer of liquor, (operating at the address in 1868) adorn the Penn House. View also includes the adjacent William Penn Hotel. The residence was wrongly recorded as built in 1682 by William Penn and given to his daughter in 1701. The house was relocated to Fairmount Park in 1883., Photographer's imprint printed on mount., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Creator
Cremer, James, 1821-1893
Date
[ca. 1868]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - Cremer - Hotels [P.9047.89]
View showing the William Penn Hotel on Letitia Street between Market and Chestnut streets. A group of working-class men stands near a fire hydrant in front of the hotel. View also includes the adjacent building incorrectly identified by 19th-century historians as the Letitia Penn House, which was wrongly recorded as built in 1682 by William Penn and given to his daughter in 1701. Signage decorated with a beer keg adorns the misidentified Penn house., Orange mount with rounded corners., Gift of Robert M. Vogel., Digitization funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Date
[ca. 1870]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9047.26]
Postcard depicting exterior view of the house, also known as the Letitia Street House, built for merchant Thomas Chalkley in 1713 to 1715. Shows the two-and-a-half-story house with a gabled roof and dormer; green shuttered windows on the façade; and a sign above the front door that reads, “William Penn.” The front doors and windows are open. In the left, ivy grows up the wall. Four young girls and one boy, some with baskets on their laps, sit on a bench beside the house and look toward the viewer. Numerous trees stand on the property around the house. Image is also pasted with glitter that decorates the grounds, as well as the border of the house, like garland. In the 19th century, the house was misidentified as being built by William Penn in 1682 and given to his daughter Letitia. The building served as a tavern for many years before being moved from Second and Chestnut Streets to Fairmount Park (3401 West Girard Avenue) in 1883., Title from item., Date inferred from content., Also known as the Letitia Street House., Manuscript note written in lower right on recto: Mother., Gift of David Doret, 2019.
Date
[ca. 1900]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection – Ephemera [P.2019.64.31]
