. Carpenters' hall. 0 0^4 314 809. F^ISrpOI^IG (DbMOI^IBS. BY Richard K. Betts. REVISED EDITION. (Ninetieth Thousand.) PUBLISHED BY THE F/SB •8 (SAI^PENiTEr^S I7ALL AND ITS I)lS!?OI^IG CQBMOr^IBS. When we survey this quaint old building, situ-ated at the head of Carpenters Court, on Chestnutstreet, between Third and Fourth streets, andconsider that when erected it stood beyond theoutskirts of the city, we cannot but admire thepublic spirit of its founders. The Carpenters Company, of the City andCounty of Philadelphia, is one of the oldestAssociations of Pennsylvania, being instit
. Carpenters' hall. 0 0^4 314 809. F^ISrpOI^IG (DbMOI^IBS. BY Richard K. Betts. REVISED EDITION. (Ninetieth Thousand.) PUBLISHED BY THE F/SB •8 (SAI^PENiTEr^S I7ALL AND ITS I)lS!?OI^IG CQBMOr^IBS. When we survey this quaint old building, situ-ated at the head of Carpenters Court, on Chestnutstreet, between Third and Fourth streets, andconsider that when erected it stood beyond theoutskirts of the city, we cannot but admire thepublic spirit of its founders. The Carpenters Company, of the City andCounty of Philadelphia, is one of the oldestAssociations of Pennsylvania, being institutedabout forty years after the settlement of the pro-vince by William Penn, and maintaining an un-interrupted existence from the year 1724. Amongits early members were many prominent in colo-nial history, and whose architectural tastes areimpressed upon buildings that yet remain, memo-rials of that early day. The object of the Association, as expressed inits Act of Incorporation, was to obtain instruction in the science of arch
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