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Title: Tabor Presbyterian Church, s.w. corner of Christian & 18th Sts. Philadelphia. Erected A.D. 1863
Description: Exterior view of the Gothic-style church at the southwest corner of Eighteenth and Christian Streets. Also shows pedestrian traffic in the foreground, including a couple, a woman and child, and a man strolling with two ladies. Church was organized in 1863 from members of the Missionary Association of the Calvary Presbyterian Church., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 740, Gift of David Doret., Sloan was a member of the Tabor Presbyterian church.
Creator: Watson, John Frampton, artist
Date: [ca. 1863]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **W362 [P.2004.44.31]

Title: The Calvary Presbyterian Church, Locust Street, - Philadelphia
Description: View showing the Gothic-style Presbyterian church built 1851-1853 after the designs of John Notman at 1508-1514 Locust Street. The building includes two towers that flank a center with gabled roof and contains arched doors and windows. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including two women conversing on the sidewalk and a man entering the church. Adjacent buildings are partially visible. The church was completed for a dissenting congregation that included locomotive industrialist Matthias Baldwin who contributed $10,000 to the over $100,000 construction and land fees., Not in Wainwright., Probably by Henry Steinegger, a Swiss-born lithographer active in the West in the later nineteenth century., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 77, Gift of David Doret., LCP AR [Annual Report] 2002, p. 65., See Catalogue of the twenty-second Exhbition of American Manufactures... (Philadelphia, 1852), p. 19, entry 2909.
Creator: Steinegger, Henry, artist
Date: [ca. 1852]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department **BW - Religion [P.2002.57]

Title: [Pine Street Church. Built A.D. 1764. Remodeled 1857]
Description: Proof of an exterior view showing the remodeled Third Presbyterian Church also known as Old Pine Street Church, originally built 1766-1768 after the designs of Robert Smith, at 400-416 South 4th Street. Columns on pediments adorn the front of the building and an iron-wrought fence protects the church property. Church remodeled from a meeting house to a Greek-style temple in 1857 after the designs of John Fraser., Title and name of printer from published copy of print in the collections of the Free Library of Philadelphia., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 602, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 136 T 445c, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:24 [published copy]
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 136 T 445c

Title: Pine Street Church. Built A.D. 1764. Remodeled 1857
Description: Exterior view showing the remodeled Third Presbyterian Church also known as Old Pine Street Church, originally built 1766-1768 after the designs of Robert Smith, at 400-416 South 4th Street. Columns on pediments adorn the front of the building and an iron-wrought fence protects the church property. Church remodeled from a meeting house to a Greek-style temple in 1857 after the designs of John Fraser., pdcc00002, Philadelphia on Stone, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:24, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 136 T 445c [proof copy]
Date: [ca. 1857]
Location: Free Library of Philadelphia. | Print and Photograph Collection. FLP Castner 23:24

Title: The old First Independent Church corner Broad and Sansom streets. Rev. John Chambers, pastor
Description: Exterior view of the First Independent Church, later renamed Chambers Presbyterian Church, built 1831 at the northeast corner of Broad and Sansom streets. Also shows a partial view of an adjacent building and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians include a man with a cane, a woman with a parasol, and two men greeting one another. Church housed the independent congregation of Rev. John Chambers. Congregation admitted to the Presbytery in 1873., Inscribed on the mount: In March of 1830, the cornerstone was laid. In June of 1831, the Church was opened for religious worship. In April, 1853, the Church was enlarged by an extension Eastward of Fifteen feet and the erection of a portico in front. This picture is undoubtedly the church that commenced in March, 1830, and first opened for worship in June, 1831., Title from label taped on verso. Label annotated: North East corner., Inscribed on verso: Gift of Gladywn Hill Library 11-9-62., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 524, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 136 C 356
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 136 C 356

Title: First Presbyterian Church, Southwark, Phila
Description: Exterior view of the church built 1857-1859 after the designs of Samuel Sloan at German Street below Third Street. Church includes two small and a large spire. Also shows an obelisk behind the church in the background., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 261, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 136 S 728
Date: [ca. 1859]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 136 S 728

Title: Second Presbyterian Church, city of Philada. Founded 1750. Enlarged 1809
Description: View showing the church built 1749 after the designs of Robert Smith at the northwest corner of North Third and Arch streets. Also shows pedestrian traffic, including two strolling women and three men conversing at the corner. Church was demolished 1837-1838 following the relocation of the congregation., Letter "s" printed backward in artist's imprint., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 687, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 862 B 756 #46, Free Library of Philadelphia: Castner 23:28., Upper left corner torn.
Creator: Breton, William L., ca. 1773-1855, artist
Date: 1830
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 862 B 756 #46

Title: [First Reformed Presbyterian Church, Broad Street between Spruce and Pine streets, Philadelphia]
Description: Exterior view showing the building of the First Reformed Presbyterian Church (i.e. Wylie Memorial Church) erected in 1854 on the 300 block of Broad Street after the designs of John McArthur, Jr. Pedestrian traffic, including a couple on promenade, walk in front and in the courtyard beside the church. Congregation organized in 1798. Church renamed in the early 1890s for long-term pastors T.W.J. Wylie and Samuel Wylie., Title supplied by cataloguer., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 262, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Ba 136 C 445, Library Company of Philadelphia copy, gift of David Doret, and acquired after completion of Philadelphia on Stone project. Digital image is copy at Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Trimmed.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Ba 136 C 445, Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret and Mitchell Collection - Prints [P.2018.63.6]

Title: Broad Street Independant [sic] Church, Philadelphia
Description: Exterior view of the First Independent Church, later renamed Chambers Presbyterian Church, built 1831 at the northeast corner of Broad and Sansom streets. Also shows a partial view of an adjacent building and pedestrian traffic. Pedestrians include a couple with a child and two men greeting one another. Also contains amateur ink-drawn and hand-colored modifications. Retouches show fire hoses in front of the buildings leading to firefighters using a hand-pumper to fight a blaze in the background. Some pedestrian figures also altered with firefigher hats and capes. The church, altered in 1853 to include a front portico, housed the independent congregation of Rev. John Chambers. Congregation admitted to the Presbytery in 1873., Inscribed on recto: S.A. Jackson; see p. 81., Title annotated with a slash through the "a" in "Independant.", Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 64, Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled "Illustrations of Philadelphia" volume 4, page 85. The scrapbooks contained photographs of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia collected by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape.
Creator: Town, E.
Date: [ca. 1850]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches and meetinghouses [(4)2526.F.85]

Title: West Arch Street Presbyterian Church, corner of Eighteenth & Arch streets, Philadelphia, Pa
Description: Exterior view showing the church also known as Arch Street Presbyterian Church built by Joseph DeNegre in 1855 after the designs of Joseph C. Hoxie at 1726-1732 Arch Street. Also shows parishioners, men, women, and children, leaving the church, walking past it, and convening in couples and groups on the sidewalk around the building. Also shows a horse-drawn carriage galloping in the street., Title from item., Date inferred from active dates of partnership of M.H. Traubel & Co., Length of House 150 feet, Width " " 87 ", Height of Front Tower 115 feet, " " Centre " 170 "., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 882, Gift of David Doret., Print received after original dates of project.
Date: [ca. 1855]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Doret Collection - Prints [P.2020.39.13]

Title: Second Reformed Dutch Church
Description: Exterior view showing the Presbyterian church with colonnade portico at 811 N. 7th Street). Lithograph by an ornate gilt decorative border composed of flowers, leaves, and filigree. Shows pedestrian traffic in front of the church built 1853-1854 under the supervision of the building committee of Rev. Dr. J. F. Berg, George Hawes, D. W. C. Moore, and Charles Collins Jr. Pedestrians include a man carrying a bundle on his shoulder and a boy playing with a hoop. Congregation organized in 1852 from members withdrawn from the First German Reformed Church., Title from item., Date supplied from variant copy in the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 688a, Variant of Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 138 R 332
Creator: Sherwin, John H., b. 1834, artist
Date: [1857]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W333 [P.2019.55.3]

Title: Fourteenth [sic] Presbyterian Church. N. west corner of Schuylkill Seventh and George Sts. Phila
Description: Exterior view showing the Greek-Revival style building of the Ninth Presbyterian Church opened in 1841 at S. 16th and Sansom streets. Partial views of neighboring buildings are visible. Also shows pedestrian and street traffic. Includes a small horse-drawn buggy traveling past an overweight man with a lady waiting near a lamp post at the street corner. Congregation organized May 1822., Title partially printed on mount, Philadelphia on Stone, POS 270, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 136 F 781, Contains paper backing.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), artist
Date: [ca. 1841]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 136 F 781

Title: Princeton Presbyterian Church, Phila
Description: Exterior view showing the greenstone church built 1858-1860 at 39th Street (i.e., Saunders Avenue) and Powelton Avenue in West Philadelphia. An iron fence surrounds the church and trees line the sidewalk in front of the sanctuary. A lot of land and a grove of trees flank the property. Exiting parishioners are visible in the doorway and individuals greet and converse with one another on the sidewalk as a horse-drawn buggy rushes past in the street. A new church building was completed on the site in 1876. Congregation organized October 1855., Manuscript note on recto: 39th & Powelton Ave., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 627, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 136 P 957
Date: [ca. 1860]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 136 P 957

Title: Exterior view of the tabernacle of the Alexander Presbyterian Church, Rev. Alfred Nevin. D.D. Pastor. N. E. corner of Nineteenth and Green streets. Philadelphia
Description: View showing the one-story red brick temporary church building that housed the congregation, later the West Green Street Church, 1858-1859. Also shows street and pedestrian traffic, including a horse-drawn coach, promenading families and couples, and a boy waving an American flag. Congregation originally named for Rev. Archibald Alexander. The permanent church structure was built during the 1860s and complete by 1869., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 218, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 136 A 374
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 136 A 374

Title: Interior view of the tabernacle of the Alexander Presbyterian Church, Rev. Alfred Nevin. D.D. Pastor. N. E. corner of Nineteenth and Green streets. Philadelphia
Description: View looking toward the pulpit of the temporary church building that housed the congregation, later the West Green Street Church, 1858-1859. Includes the pulpit, organ, three rows of pew benches, a chandelier hanging between roof beams, and a wood stove at each end of the church. Permanent church building was built during the 1860s and completed by 1869., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 389, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb 136 A 374a
Date: [ca. 1858]
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bb 136 A 374a

Title: St. Paul's German Lutheran Church. N. East, corner of Brown and St. John sts., Phila
Description: Exterior view of the church built 1840 after the designs of architect A.D. Caldwell on the 200 block of Brown Street. Also shows pedestrian and street traffic, including a man and woman admiring the church from a street corner; a couple in a carriage acknowledging a gentleman passing on horseback; and a man seated side-saddle on a stopped horse conversing with a man in the street., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 714, Gift of David Doret.
Creator: Wagner, T. S. (Thomas S.), artist
Date: c1840
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *W349 [P.2004.44.30]

Title: Second Reformed Dutch Church [commemorative print]
Description: Commemorative print containing a pasted lithograph of an exterior view of the Presbyterian church with colonnade portico (811 N. 7th Street). Lithograph partially printed over and surrounded by an ornate chromolithgraphed decorative border and pasted letterpress cutouts. Shows pedestrian traffic in front of the church built 1853-1854 under the supervision of the building committee of Rev. Dr. J. F. Berg, George Hawes, D. W. C. Moore, and Charles Collins Jr. Pedestrians include a man carrying a bundle on his shoulder and a boy playing with a hoop. Congregation organized in 1852 from members withdrawn from the First German Reformed Church. Chromolithographed border comprised of a wreath of different flowers and cutouts with gold printed letterpress text describing, and listing prominent figures in, the history of the church., Text cut-outs surrounded by chromolithographed bead-like strands. Information includes the date of the organization (March 29, 1852), laying of the corner stone April 21, 1853), opening of basement, lecture, and Sabbath School rooms (October 25, 1852), and dedication of the church (March 5, 1864); names of the first pastor (Joseph F. Berg, D.D.), organist (Charles Collins Jr.), board president (Albert Rorer), secretary (D. W. C. Moore), sexton (J. Collom), superintendent of Sabbath Schools (Charles Santee), and treasurer (John Ross); the list of officers (i.e., elders, deacons, trustees) in 1853 and 1857; "Contents of the Corner Stone, Deposited April 21, 1853, including a constitution of the church and newspaper accounts of the laying of the cornerstone; "Ceremonies at Laying the Corner Stone April 21, 1853"; the names of the builders, carpenters J. & G. A. Binder, and bricklayers William Chapman & Son; the names of the building committee; and the price of the lot purchased from Joseph J. Sharpless, the cost of the building, and the acknowledgement that the "Church made free of debt by subscription, January, 1857.", Philadelphia on Stone, POS 688, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bc 138 R 332
Creator: Sherwin, John H., b. 1834, artist
Date: March 1857
Location: Historical Society of Pennsylvania HSP Bc 138 R 332

Title: High Street, with the First Presbyterian Church. Philadelphia, 1800
Description: Lithographic facsimile of plate nine from William Birch's "Views of Philadelphia" showing a street scene with a view of the First Presbyterian Church on Market Street below Third Street. Depicts pedestrians, predominately women, traversing the sidewalk before the church and adjacent buildings; a horse-drawn dray and cart traveling the street; and a woman peddler with her basket of goods near the High Street market shed. First Presbyterian, rebuilt from 1793 to 1794 after the designs of John Trumbull, was the first building in the city with a classic temple facade. The building was razed following the relocation of the congregation., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 355, Accession number amended by cataloger., Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of views of Philadelphia., Original engraving illustrated in S. Robert Teitelman's Birch's Views of Philadelphia (Philadelphia: The Free Library of Philadelphia, 1982, rev. 2000), pl. 9., Sinclair operated from 79 South Third Street circa 1840-1849.
Creator: Sinclair, Thomas
Date: [ca. 1845]
Location: Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Churches and meetinghouses [Log 1322.F.c]

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