Memorial Hall : a history prepared for the Fairmount Park Council for Historic Sites by Rebecca Trumbull

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Trumbull, Rebecca.

Contributor:

• Fairmount Park Council for Historic Sites

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Memorial Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.)--History.
• Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art--History.
• Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)--History.
• Historic buildings--Penn--Philadelphia.
• Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Historic buildings.

Physical Description:

154 p. : ill., map, plans ; 28 cm.

Other Title:

Memorial Hall, a history

Place of Publication:

[Philadelphia, Pa. : s.n.], 1986.

Summary:

"Memorial Hall, located in West Fairmount Park, is one of the two remaining buildings from the 1876 Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia."--P. 1. After the centennial it was acquired by the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art for use primarily as a museum, most of the collections of which formed the nucleus, in 1928, of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It slowly lost its museum function to become a recreation center, which was renovated from 1959-1967.

Notes:

• Cover title.
• "October 1986".
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 11).

OCLC:

37444308