Identifier: philadelphiaitse00jb (find matches)
Title: Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: J.B. Lippincott & Co
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Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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o be covered with an iron net-work. Directly opposite this, on thesouthwest corner, is the office of thePublic Record. Third Street is the home of the bankersand brokers. To a certain extent, it isthe Wall Street of Philadelphia. On itwe find the eminent banking-house ofDrexel & Co., and many others. Again turning to the left, we pass theoffice of the ETcning Telegraph, anda few doors below it find the GirardBank, a venerable but still stately edifice,built 1795-8 for the fiii^t United StatesBank, and. afterwards occupied by theman whose name it bears, and whosememory Philadelphia must ever cherishas that of the most munificent benefactorshe has ever had; and nearly opposite PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. this is one of the most beautiful banking-houses in the citv It i. ,h. t j . „ , small but elegantly-designed building, of wh.te kl„ Hampshi ^ranL f:! pillars and tablets of highly-pol.shedAberdeen. The ^^^^^ZTLZlZZt^X^With an eye to equal beauty and security. ^^ ^ fuinished,
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Again resumin- our way up Chestnut Street, we pass, on the south side, the office of the Inquirer, and immediately after, on the north, the Bank of North America, the first bank estab^ ished m the United States, it having been founded by Congress in 1781, when the credit of the country was very far indeed below par. Robert Morris was one of the principal ori-inators PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. of this bank, and it proved a valuable auxiliary to his efforts in behalf of the public treasury.By its aid he succeeded in raising again the public credit and in establishing a good circulatingmedium. The present building is of brown stone, in the Florentine style of architecture. Nextabove, and separated from the bank only by a narrow alley, is the new building of the Guaran-tee Trust and Safe Deposit Company, a beautiful structure of pressed brick ornamented withOhio stone and colored tiles. Its frontage on Chestnut Street is 57 feet, and its depth 198 feet.The building was erected in 1874

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