Appleton's illustrated hand-book of American cities; . t was begun in 1758, and finished in 1761. In the yard is a monument to Commo-dore Decatur, and in the steeple a cliime of bells. Other Episcopal churches notablefor their fine architecture are St. MarFs, in the later or English-Gothic style, and Locust; the Holy Trinity, in the Xorman style, cor. 19th and Walnut;the Church of the Incarnation, of granite and Pictou stone. Broad St., cor. of Jef-ferson; *S^. Stephens, pure Gothic, on 4th St., below Market; and St. Andreios,8th St., near Spruce, a fine specimen of the Grecian-Ionic
Appleton's illustrated hand-book of American cities; . t was begun in 1758, and finished in 1761. In the yard is a monument to Commo-dore Decatur, and in the steeple a cliime of bells. Other Episcopal churches notablefor their fine architecture are St. MarFs, in the later or English-Gothic style, and Locust; the Holy Trinity, in the Xorman style, cor. 19th and Walnut;the Church of the Incarnation, of granite and Pictou stone. Broad St., cor. of Jef-ferson; *S^. Stephens, pure Gothic, on 4th St., below Market; and St. Andreios,8th St., near Spruce, a fine specimen of the Grecian-Ionic style. The new Beth-Eden Baptist Church at the corner of Broad and Spruce Streets is a beautiful build-i n g. TheWest ArchSt. Church(Presbyteri-an) is a veryh a n d s o m cand spaciousstructure inthe Roman-Corinthianstyle; and theSecond Pres-hyterian(21stand WalnutSts.), the Cal-vary (in Lo-cust St.), andthe Washing-ton Square(Presbyteri-an), are fine buildings in various stylesis a handsome structure in the Xorman style. At the intersection of Broad. University ot Central Congregational, 18th and Green Sts. 30 HAND-BOOK OF AMERICAN CITIES. and Arch Streets is a cluster of fine clinrches: the Arch St. Methodist^ of whitemarble; the First Baptist, of brown-stone ; and the Lutheran Church, of greenserpentine, in tbe Gothic style. On Broad St., near Green, is the Synagogue, ahjindsome though peculiar structure of the Saracenic order. Among the meeting-houses of the Friends, that on the corner of Arch and 4th Sts. is best worth a and Cliaritable Institutions.—The University of Pennsylvania occuyues agroup of new and handsome buildings near 36th and Locust Streets, in West Phila-delphia. It is one of tlie oldest institutions of the kind in the country, having beenfounded as an academy in 1749, erected into a college in 1755, and into a universityin 1779. It has academical, collegiate, art, scientific, medical, and law departments :and in 1874-75
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