Plan for the library building originally built circa 1859 after the designs of John McArthur as a market house. Shows the ground and second floor plans including dimensions, "Front Elevation on 10th Street," and "Interior elevation of Rear Wall." Floor plans include reading rooms for ladies and gentlemen, library room containing "desks for changing books" and book cases, toilet, ladies parlor, desk for umbrellas, writing and business room, lecture room, gentleman's conversation room, work room, committee room, board room, librarian's and janitor's residences, chess room, and newspaper room. Interior elevation contains a sky light and stained glass window. The library, organized in 1821 for the benefit of merchants and merchant clerks, purchased the building in 1867 and relocated in 1869., Not in Wainwright., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 608, Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Date
[ca. 1869]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department *BW - Libraries - Mercantile [P.8922]
Exterior view of Bennett's Tower Hall, the four-story, tower-shaped clothing store at 518 Market Street altered by architect Samuel Sloan circa 1867. Includes partial, faded view of adjacent properties. Col. Joseph M. Bennett (1816-1898) established his business, which he named Tower Hall in 1853, at the address in 1849. He was a successful businessman who used his wealth for philanthropic pursuits including the establishment of a Methodist orphanage and the bequest of West Philadelphia properties to the University of Pennsylvania in support of women's education., Date assigned by cataloger., Published in Samuel Sloan's City and Suburban Architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 56, design XII for a mercantile building in the Norman style., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 288, Free Library of Philadelphia: 724.3 SL52C, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited.
Creator
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, artist
Date
[ca. 1867]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department W25 [*Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.56]
Plate in architectural design book illustrating a perspective view of a symmetrical, Italian-style, suburban mansion on the edge of Rittenhouse Square built 1855-1857 for Joseph Harrison, Jr. after designs by Samuel Sloan. Pedestrian traffic, including two gentlemen on horseback, a man and woman walking, and a horse-drawn carriage, pass in front of the mansion near the square in the foreground., Published in Samuel Sloan's city and suburban architecture (Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1867), plate 107, design XXIV for a suburban mansion., Philadelphia on Stone, POS 641, Wainwright retrospective conversion project, edited., Library Company of Philadelphia: in *Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.107, Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Bb16 H32., Atwater Kent Museum: 440.14.103.1
Creator
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884, artist
Date
[1867]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Books & Other Texts | Rare W309 [*Am 1867 Sloan 7883.F.107]
