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Title: Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Stockton, Louise, 1838-1914 Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936 Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916 Jackson, Joseph, 1867-1946 Turner, Eliza Sproat, Mrs., 1826-1903 Leach, Frank Willing, 1855-1943 Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918
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Publisher: Philadelphia, New York, J. Wanamaker
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ncethan anv «»ther in the new confederation. Life changedin all way-. The low houses of the fn-st period hadbeen replaced by buildings, the height of which was pro-toted ai:aiu-t by the old jx-oplc. who regardeil them asan invitation to lioth lire and lightning, liobert Morris,cautious, shrewd ami successful in all his financial man-agement of j)ublic interest>. had begun the imi)ossibkpala<-e kuum had been expeudeil before il reachedthe lir>t -tory above grouiul. there being two and some-times three underLrround. made up of imunneraldearches, vault- and labyrinths. Marble had been usedIbr the whole, ornamented in ndief, but before the roofwas on. impatient and indignant creditors, for whom nomoney remained, found their only re-<»urce would be topull down, block by block, the vast mass of material
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QUAKER AND TORT. 197 which, put into smaller houses, might possibly bringsome return. The Folly became a row of buildingson Sanson! Street, and only -- the underground laby-rinths, so massively builtas to defy the reconstruct-ors, remain, and may pos-sibly puzzle future explo-rers. Many houses of lessermagniticence, but of equalinterest, had been builtduring the second fiftyyears of the settlement, afew of which still remain,but chiefly in and betweenthe city and Germantown,improvements having doneaway with most of thosein the business part of thecity. Whitpains GreatHouse, Binghams Man-sion, Loxleys house andBathshebas Bath andBower have left no trace,but in Germantown many of the first buildings are stillstanding, one of the most interesting of these being theold Livezey house, occupied by families of the samename for two hundred years.

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