ELEVATION_OF_SOUTHEAST_FRONT_FACADE,_LOOKING_NORTHWEST_-_Free_Library_of_Philadelphia,_Manayunk_Branch,_Fleming_and_Dupont_Streets,_Philadelphia,_Philadelphia_County,_PA_HABS_PA-6758-3.tif
Summary
ELEVATION OF SOUTHEAST FRONT FACADE, LOOKING NORTHWEST - Free Library of Philadelphia, Manayunk Branch, Fleming and Dupont Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA | |||||
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Photographer |
Elliott, Joseph E.
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Title |
ELEVATION OF SOUTHEAST FRONT FACADE, LOOKING NORTHWEST - Free Library of Philadelphia, Manayunk Branch, Fleming and Dupont Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
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Description |
Carnegie, Andrew; Stevens, Benjamin Rush, architect; Preservation Alliance of Greater Philadelphia, sponsor
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Depicted place | Pennsylvania; Philadelphia County; Philadelphia | ||||
Date | 2007 | ||||
Dimensions | 4 x 5 in. | ||||
Current location |
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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Accession number |
HABS PA-6758-3
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Credit line |
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Notes |
Philadelphia was the recipient of one of the largest of Carnegie's library grants. Although the city was among the first to establish a free library system, it had no purpose-built structures prior to the endowment. The branch libraries were built between 1905 and 1930, under the direction of the city appointed Carnegie Fund Committee, and designed by a "who's-who" of Philadelphia's architects. The twenty extant branch libraries remain as a remarkable intact and cohesive grouping, rivaled only by that of New York City, with fifty-seven. Manayunk Branch was designed by architect Benjamin Rush Stevens in the Beaux Arts styling and symmetrical T-plan that came to define Carnegie Libraries in Philadelphia as well as nationwide. However, its fine details, massing, and scale make it one of the more elaborate of the Philadelphia branches.
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Source | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa4076.photos.573945p | ||||
Permission
( Reusing this file ) |
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Object location | 39° 57′ 07.99″ N, 75° 09′ 51.01″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 39.952220; -75.164170 |
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