Castner Scrapbook v.18, Chestnut Street – Residences 1, page 2
Historical Images of Philadelphia Castner Scrapbook Collection
Item Info
Historic Street Address: Bartram's Gardens
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:
Item 1, top: Image and text from "Gleason's Pictorial", v. 6, n. 21, p. 328 (5/27/1854), showing Bartram Hall, home of locomotive manufacturer Andrew Eastwick. It was designed in 1850 by architect Samuel Sloan, in the Italianate style. It was located in Bartram's Gardens, America's first botanical garden (founded in 1728), in the Kingsessing neighborhood, on the west bank of the Schuylkill River below Gray's Ferry. After being sold to the city in 1890, the mansion burned down in 1896. Bartram's Gardens, however, is still a large public garden, and was designated as a National Historic Landmark and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1960. Engraving by Devereux, Del. and Schenck, SC, for the above-cited "Gleason's Pictorial", 24.5 x 19 cm (plus attached text, 8 x 11cm), 1854.
Item 2, bottom: Image of the Charles J. Harrah residence, at 858 N. Broad Street (SW corner of Broad & Poplar Streets). It existed from 1887-1909, then was demolished and replaced by the Metropolitan Opera House (built by Oscar Hammerstein). Engraving for an unidentified publication, 13 x 10 cm, undated.
Creation Year: 1845
Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.212201
Geocode Latitude:39.932741
Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.18
Creator Name: Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler
Devereux Del. - Engraver
Samuel Sloan, 1815-1884 - Architect
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