Identifier: philadelphiaitse00phil (find matches)
Title: Philadelphia and its environs
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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he Bank of North America, the first bank estab-lished in the United States, it having been founded by Congress in 1781, when the credit ofthe country was verv far indeed below par. Robert Morris was one of the principal originators 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 cir-culating medium. The present building is of brown stone, in the Florentine style of archi-tecture. Just above, on the opposite side of the street, 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, and has the merits of combining novelty and beauty ofdesign with the greatest security against both fire and theft. The safe deposit vaults, six in
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CUSTOM-HOUSE AND POST-OFFICE. number, are situated at the rear end of the building, and are constructed with every precautionfor safety. EacTi vault is ten feet wide by eighteen feet deep. Below Fourth Street, and opposite Carpenters Hall, is the elegant white marble building ofthe Fidelity Safe Deposit and Insurance Company, which combines a handsome exterior withthe most impregnable security that modern science can devise. It is in the Italian style,with a front of Lee marble, and is the largest enterprise of the kind in the country. Thesafe alone weighs 150 tons, and cost $60,000. And on Fourth Street, just below Chestnut,stands the new iron building of the Provident Life and Trust Company, a much admiredpiece of architecture. PHILADELPHIA AAD ITS LNVIRONS.

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