La Pierre House, Academy of Natural Sciences, and Union League, Broad St., below Chestnut, Phila[delphia] Pa. [graphic].
United States, ca. 1875.
View showing the La Pierre House hotel, the second building of the Academy of Natural Sciences museum, and the Union League on the west side of the 100 block of South Broad Street. The hotel, completed in 1853 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John McArthur, was expanded and renamed Lafayette Hotel in 1876. The second building of the Academy, completed in 1840 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Notman, and expanded in 1852, housed the museum until 1876. The Union League, established to raise money and recruits for the Union cause, was completed in 1865 after the designs of Philadelphia architect John Fraser. Includes horse-drawn carriages parked in front of the buildings.
Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited.
Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
La Pierre House (Hotel : Philadelphia, Pa.)
Union League of Philadelphia -- Buildings.
Museums and galleries -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. lctgm
Hotels -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. lctgm
Carriages & coaches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. lctgm
Broad Street (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- South -- 100 block -- West side. local
Stereographs -- 1870-1880. gmgpc
Albumen prints -- 1870-1880. gmgpc
Fraser, John, 1825-1906, architect.
McArthur, John, 1823-1890, architect.
Notman, John, 1810-1865, architect.
Imprint PA. Philadelphia. 1875.
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