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The Independence Square neighborhood : historical notes on Independence and Washington Squares, lower Chestnut Street, and the insurance district along Walnut Street, in Philadelphia, together with some account of the buildings, events, and personages of State House row ...
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection F158.67.I33 P4
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Historic buildings--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Historic buildings.
- Independence Square (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Washington Square (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Society Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--Description and travel.
- Philadelphia (Pa.).
- Independence National Historical Park (Philadelphia, Pa.).
- Physical Description:
- 155 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., 1926.
- Contents:
- The neighborhood. Independence ; Philadelphia in 1776 ; The capital city ; The neighborhood to-day ; The influence of Franklin ; Lower Chestnut Street ; Around Independence Square ; Washington Square ; The Insurance District ; The Old Churches ; Romantic houses
- State House Row. Independence Hall ; Congress Hall ; Supreme Court Building ; The first Continental Congress ; The declaration of independence ; the articles of confederation ; the federal constitution ; the Liberty Bell.
- Notes:
- Written by Carroll Frey.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Copy 2: gift, E. Lichstein, 1991.
- OCLC:
- 5791668
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