Item Info
Item No: pdcc00099
Title: Musical Fund Hall
Additional Title: Where the National Republican Convention of 1856 was held.
Historic Street Address:
808 Locust Street
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
Built by the Musical Fund Society in 1824, the hall became a musical center for the city, and a place where Europe's most prominent musicians performed. In other uses of the hall the National Republican Convention of 1856 was held there, and through the mid-19th Century a steady flow of speakers, entertainers and religious leaders appeared at the hall.
Source: http://musicalfundsociety.org/history.htm
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.155103
Geocode Latitude:39.946954
Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.2
Creator Name: Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler
Strickland, William, 1788-1854 - Architect
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