View showing the "dwelling house" hotel built on Walnut Street between 33rd and 34th streets for the Centennial Exhibition in 1876. The hotel, built on inexpensive land considered undesirable for a permanent hotel, was composed of rows of several houses that were to be later sold or leased as individual dwellings. Guests stand on the porch of the twenty-six house hotel. Horse-drawn carriages travel in the street., Yellow mount with rounded corners., Title from manuscript note on mount., 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. 1876
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department stereo - unidentified - Hotels [P.9047.51]
