. Philadelphia and its environs . PENNSYLVANIA INSURANCE AND TRUST BUILDING. appropriated to its use extends from Chestnut to Market Streets, a distance of 484 feet, and is175 feet 9 inches in width. The building will cover 425 feet 8 inches on Ninth Street by 150 feeton Chestnut and Market. It is proposed to make Ninth Street 20 feet wider, and it is thoughtthe United States Government will eventually purchase the whole square bounded by Chestnut,Market, Ninth and Tenth Streets, and dedicate it to national use. On the southwest corner of Ninth and Chestnut stands a group of marble stores
. Philadelphia and its environs . PENNSYLVANIA INSURANCE AND TRUST BUILDING. appropriated to its use extends from Chestnut to Market Streets, a distance of 484 feet, and is175 feet 9 inches in width. The building will cover 425 feet 8 inches on Ninth Street by 150 feeton Chestnut and Market. It is proposed to make Ninth Street 20 feet wider, and it is thoughtthe United States Government will eventually purchase the whole square bounded by Chestnut,Market, Ninth and Tenth Streets, and dedicate it to national use. On the southwest corner of Ninth and Chestnut stands a group of marble stores which areunsurpassed for substantial beauty in the city. Fine stores, indeed, may be said to be the rulefrom Ninth to Eleventh, and there are many on either side of these limits. PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. 27 Above Ninth, on the north side of Chestnut, is the handsome building of the long-estab-lished and well-known Penn Mutual Life Insurance OLD MAbOMC TEMPLE. On the northwest corner of Tenth and Chestnut Streets stands the magnificent granitebuildinc^ of the Alutual Life Insurance Company of New York. It is one of the handsomest 28 PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS.
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