Identifier: strangersillustr00phil (find matches)
Title: The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Subjects: Centennial Exhibition (1876 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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, the only clerical Signer, which stands on the east sideof the grounds. We have now briefly described the most important buildings whichstand out prominently in the midst of a host of structures of infinitevariety of size, shape, and purpose, among which restaurants of variousnationalities are especially noticeable. But in a work necessarily socondensed as this it is impossible to enumerate all of these structures,and, indeed, we doubt if any description would convey an adequate im-pression of the scene : suffice it to say that they notably exceed thecorresponding array at any of the European Expositions. CHURCHES. Philadelphia has within her limits nearly six hundred religious organ-izations, of which over five hundred possess church buildings of theirown. The following may be regarded as the representative churches oftheir respective denominations: 42 CHURCHES. BAPTIST. Bereaii. A handsome brown-stone building, on Chestnut Street, nearFortieth. Ihe Walnut Street cars pass the door.
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RKTH-EDEN CHURCH. Beth-Eden, at Broad and Spruce Streets. One of the finest churchedifices in the city; built of serpentine stone with variegated stone trim-mings and stained glass windows. Fifth Baptist. A Gothic brown-stone church, at the northwest cor- CHURCHES. 43 ner of Eighteenth and Spring Garden Streets. The cars on the Fair-mount branch of the Union line pass the church. First Baptist, at the northwest corner of Broad and Arch Streets.A handsome structure,.built of brown stone, with a steeple two hundredand twenty-five feet in height. Fourth Baptist, corner of Fifth and Buttonwood Streets; having asemi-circular front and a tower one hundred and eighty-eight feet high. Memorial Baptist, corner of Broad and Master Streets. An ele-gant new structure of unique design, built in the form of an amphi-theatre ; seating capacity, fourteen hundred. Tabernacle Baptist, on Chestnut Street, above Eighteenth. Animposing structure with a semi-circular front, supported by stone pillars ;it h

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