Creator Richards, F. De B. (Frederick De Bourg) photographer. Title St. Stephens Church (Episcopal). Dr. Duchachett [sic], rector. Tenth St. East side corner of College Avenue. [graphic] : The broken ground &c in foreground, is the remains at the time the picture was taken, of the old wooden houses now removing to give place to a new market house. / Photograph by Richards. Date April 1859. Physical description 1 photographic print: salted paper mounted on paper; 19 x 15 cm.(7.5 x 6 in.) Notes Date inscribed on photograph. Tile and photographers imprint from Poulson inscription on mount. Manuscript note by Poulson on mount: See next picture. View showing the Protestant Episcopal church built 1822-1823 after the designs of William Strickland at 19 South 10th Street. Also shows the construction site for the Franklin Market in the foreground. Originally part of a series of eleven scrapbooks compiled by Philadelphia antiquarian Charles A. Poulson in the late 1850s entitled Illustrations of Philadelphia volume 3, page 49. The scrapbooks contained approximately 120 photographs by Philadelphia painter and pioneer photographer Richards of 18th-century public, commercial, and residential buildings in the city of Philadelphia commissioned by Poulson to document the vanishing architectural landscape. Retrospective conversion record: original entry, edited. Reproduced in The Print and Photograph Department of the Library Company of Philadelphias Center City Philadelphia in the 19th century (Portsmouth, N.H.: Arcadia Publishing, 2006), p. 39. Arcadia caption text: St. Stephen’s Church represents another magnificent church structure added to the cityscape of Philadelphia during the 19th century. Built 1822-1823 at 19 South Tenth Street after the designs of Philadelphia architect William Strickland, the Gothic-style Episcopal church houses two monuments bequeathed by devout parishioner and lawyer Edward Shippen Burd. The lower view shows one of the monuments, Burd’s tomb, designed by architect Frank Wills and installed after his death in 1848. The exterior view shows the construction site opposite the church for the Franklin Market, begun in 1859. Subject Episcopal churches -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. Construction -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. Philadelphia artists. St. Stephens Church (Philadelphia, Pa.) Geographic subject Tenth Street (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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