#north broad

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North Broad, Philadelphia (2013)

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North Broad (2013)

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 Widener Mansion (H. Josephine Widener Memorial Library (1900-1946); Conwell Theological Seminary; Peter A. B. Widener House; Institute of the Black Ministries) Philadelphia, PA 1887

The Widener Mansion at 1200 N. Broad Street was donated to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1900, when Peter A.B. Widener moved to Lynnwood Hall in Elkins Park, PA. It served as a library until 1946 at which point it was sold. In 1980 it was destroyed by fire.

From Thomas, George E.  “Architectural Patronage and Social Stratification in Philadelphia between 1840 and 1920.”  The Divided Metropolis:  Social and Spatial Dimensions of Philadelphia, 1800-1975.  Eds. William W. Cutler and Howard Gillette:

“Although the [P.A.B.] Widener house is symmetrical, its effect is the opposite; here, instead of chaste monochromatic, grey stone, brownstone gives way to brick and brick to iron, terra cotta, and finally tile on the structure’s roofs….   No surface, however minute, was left unembellished.  It has jokingly been said that Hale could invent a thousand motifs in the development of a design and use most of them, and the evidence here suggests that he could and did.  The interior was just as spectacular, the most extraordinary space being the dining room.  Its walls were painted away by a German-born decorative artist, George Herzog, whose work simulated views beyond the walls into a sunny seventeenth-century garden peopled with Widener’s family in floppy plumed hats and period dress."

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North Philadelphia is a ghost town

Fuck....yeah.