The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them . eet in length, north and south, andfour hundred and seventy feet in width, east and west. The centraltower will rise to the height of four hundred and fifty feet, a greaterheight than any other spire in the world, the crowning feature being astatue of William Penn twenty feet in height. The area actually cov-ered is nearly four and a half acres, not including a court-yard in thecentre, two hundred feet square. Around t
The stranger's illustrated pocket guide to Philadelphia, embracing a description of the principal objects of interest in and around the city, with directions how to reach them . eet in length, north and south, andfour hundred and seventy feet in width, east and west. The centraltower will rise to the height of four hundred and fifty feet, a greaterheight than any other spire in the world, the crowning feature being astatue of William Penn twenty feet in height. The area actually cov-ered is nearly four and a half acres, not including a court-yard in thecentre, two hundred feet square. Around the whole will be a grandavenue two hundred and five feet wide on the northern front, and onehundred and thirty-five feet on the others. The general style of thebuilding is the Renaissance, modified to suit the purposes for which itis required. The basement story is of fine white granite, and the super-structure of white marble from the Lee quarries, the whole stronglybacked with brick and made perfectly fireproof. The structure willcontain five hundred and twenty rooms, and afford ample provision forthe present and future needs of its occupants. Its erection is in charge. 52 CUSTOM-HOUSE.—DELAWARE RIVER. of a Commission, and the architect who drew the plan and has charge of the work is John McArthur, Jr. The cars on Market, Arch, Chestnut, and Walnut Streets pass atBroad Street, near the immediate locality of this building, and from thenorthern and southern sections of the city lines of cars connecting withthese lines by exchange tickets (price nine cents) convey passengers tothe vicinity. CUSTOM-HOUSE. The United States Custom-House, on the south side of ChestnutStreet, between Fourth and Fifth, has two fronts, one on Chestnut, theother on Library Street, each ornamented with eight fluted Doric col-umns, twenty-seven feet high and four feet six inches in diameter, support-ing a heavy entablature. It is in imitation of the Parthenon at Athens, andis one of the purest specimen
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