Quaint Corners in Philadelphia With One Hundred And Seventy Four Illustrations
Quaint Corners in Philadelphia With One Hundred And Seventy Four Illustrations
Campbell Helen
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Merrick purchased the property and began the erection of his row of splendid dwellings, in which lived some prominent Philadelphians. As if catching up with the belated project of William Penn for Center Square, the city in 1814 established a market shed in Broad Street just south of the square. It was a convenience much in advance of a demand, and after a struggle for existence for about a dozen years the market was removed. Removal of the Engine House and the remodelling of Penn Squares, as t...he Center now was named, hastened the development of the neighborhood, which was started by the erection of Latrobe's temple-like building. The first important permanent improvement around this new cen- CITY HALL SQUARE. 243 S! O n X w H O c S) w bd » O > o r w 02 H R w 00 o ft! O O 244 A SYLVAN CITY. ter was the United States Mint. This structure, which was designed by WiUiam Strickland, was begun in 1S29 and the building opened in 1833. It was the admiration of two generations of Philadelphians, was constructed of Pennsylvania marble, like so many of the public buildings put up in this city in the first half of the last century.
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