Author: Robert Morris Skaler
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738557434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
During the Gilded Age, Rittenhouse Square was home to Philadelphia's high society, with more millionaires per square foot than any other American neighborhood except New York's Fifth Avenue. Established by William Penn in 1682 as the South-West Square and renamed after astronomer David Rittenhouse in 1825, Rittenhouse Square and its environs changed from an isolated district of brickyards and workers' shanties into the city's most elegant and elite neighborhood between 1845 and 1865. The brownstone and marble mansions on the square itself were inhabited by the city's wealthiest and most prestigious families, with names like Biddle, Cassatt, Drexel, Stotesbury, and Van Rensselaer. As Philadelphia's upper classes fled to the suburbs in the early 20th century, their mansions were replaced by skyscrapers or taken over by cultural institutions like the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Curtis Institute of Music. While only a few original residences remain on Rittenhouse Square, it is still the center of a lively upscale neighborhood.
Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square
Author: Robert Morris Skaler
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738557434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
During the Gilded Age, Rittenhouse Square was home to Philadelphia's high society, with more millionaires per square foot than any other American neighborhood except New York's Fifth Avenue. Established by William Penn in 1682 as the South-West Square and renamed after astronomer David Rittenhouse in 1825, Rittenhouse Square and its environs changed from an isolated district of brickyards and workers' shanties into the city's most elegant and elite neighborhood between 1845 and 1865. The brownstone and marble mansions on the square itself were inhabited by the city's wealthiest and most prestigious families, with names like Biddle, Cassatt, Drexel, Stotesbury, and Van Rensselaer. As Philadelphia's upper classes fled to the suburbs in the early 20th century, their mansions were replaced by skyscrapers or taken over by cultural institutions like the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Curtis Institute of Music. While only a few original residences remain on Rittenhouse Square, it is still the center of a lively upscale neighborhood.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738557434
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
During the Gilded Age, Rittenhouse Square was home to Philadelphia's high society, with more millionaires per square foot than any other American neighborhood except New York's Fifth Avenue. Established by William Penn in 1682 as the South-West Square and renamed after astronomer David Rittenhouse in 1825, Rittenhouse Square and its environs changed from an isolated district of brickyards and workers' shanties into the city's most elegant and elite neighborhood between 1845 and 1865. The brownstone and marble mansions on the square itself were inhabited by the city's wealthiest and most prestigious families, with names like Biddle, Cassatt, Drexel, Stotesbury, and Van Rensselaer. As Philadelphia's upper classes fled to the suburbs in the early 20th century, their mansions were replaced by skyscrapers or taken over by cultural institutions like the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Curtis Institute of Music. While only a few original residences remain on Rittenhouse Square, it is still the center of a lively upscale neighborhood.
The Philadelphia Police, Past and Present
Author: Howard O. Sprogle
Publisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
Who's who in American Jewry
Speculative Landscapes
Author: Ross Barrett
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520343913
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Introduction -- Land, looking, and futurity in the Hudson Valley -- Digging for gold : allegories of speculation on the Illinois frontier -- Picturing land and labor in the Old Northwest and New England -- Perilous prospects : speculation and landscape painting in Florida -- Painting and property on Prout's Neck -- Conclusion.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520343913
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Introduction -- Land, looking, and futurity in the Hudson Valley -- Digging for gold : allegories of speculation on the Illinois frontier -- Picturing land and labor in the Old Northwest and New England -- Perilous prospects : speculation and landscape painting in Florida -- Painting and property on Prout's Neck -- Conclusion.
The Irish in Philadelphia
Author: Dennis Clark
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9780877222279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Reveals a number of significant and interesting insights into Irish immigrant history in America
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9780877222279
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Reveals a number of significant and interesting insights into Irish immigrant history in America
The Peoples of Philadelphia
Author: Allen F. Davis
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Although much has been written about elite Philadelphians, only in recent decades have historians paid attention to the Jews and working-class blacks, the immigrant Irish, Italians, and Poles who settled in the city and gave such sections as Moyamensing, Southwark, South Philadelphia, and Kensington their vitality. In this classic of social and ethnic history, the authors draw on census schedules, court records, city directories, and tax records as well as newspaper files and other sources to give a picture of the ways in which these less-privileged groups of Philadelphians lived. What emerges is a picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 9780812216707
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Although much has been written about elite Philadelphians, only in recent decades have historians paid attention to the Jews and working-class blacks, the immigrant Irish, Italians, and Poles who settled in the city and gave such sections as Moyamensing, Southwark, South Philadelphia, and Kensington their vitality. In this classic of social and ethnic history, the authors draw on census schedules, court records, city directories, and tax records as well as newspaper files and other sources to give a picture of the ways in which these less-privileged groups of Philadelphians lived. What emerges is a picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city.
Memoir of Rev. John Wiley Faires, A. M., D. D., Founder and Principal of the Classical Institute, Philadelphia
Author: Charles Joseph Cohen
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Railroads of Pennsylvania
Author: Lorett Treese
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811748871
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Regional histories of the great railroads and relics of rail culture.
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811748871
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Regional histories of the great railroads and relics of rail culture.
Cultural Landscape Report for Independence Square
Author:
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Category : Independence National Historical Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Independence National Historical Park (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description