Table of Contents: Historic Philadelphia :

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	American Philosophical Society
Contributors:	Simon, Grant Miles.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Philadelphia, 1953.
Series:	Transactions of the American Philosophical Society,
Subjects and Genres:	Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Historic houses, etc. Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Social life and customs. Pennsylvania > Philadelphia > Maps.
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Table of Contents:

The Independence Hall group
Philosophical Hall : the home of the American Philosophical Society
The oldest bank building in the United States
The second bank of the United States
The Philadelphia exchange : William Strickland, Architect
Carpenters' Hall
Library Hall : home of the Library Company of Philadelphia 1790-1880
Franklin's home
190, High Street (Market Street below Sixth) : the home of Washington and Adams, 1790-1800
The Charity School, the Academy and the college, Fourth and Arch Streets
Christ Church, St. Peter's, and St. Paul's
St. Joseph's and St. Mary's churches
Quaker landmarks in early Philadelphia
The Presbyterian churches of old Philadelphia
St. George's church : the cradle of American Methodism
The Pennsylvania hospital
Philadelphia's eighteenth-century fire insurance companies
Peale's Museum
The Athenaeum : some account of its history from 1814 to 1850
The academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia
The Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania
Houses and early life in Philadelphia
Two centuries of Philadelphia architecture : 1700-1900
Market houses in High Street
The theatre and drama in old Philadelphia
The taverns of colonial Philadelphia
Philadelphia prisons of the eighteenth century
Map of old Philadelphia, showing historic buildings and sites..