. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . OLD MASONIC TEMPLE. Of its kind in the city. It presents a front of forty-four feet on Chestnut Street by two hun-dred and forty feet on Twelfth, and its ceiling is twenty-two feet in height. The buildin^ was PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. 29. SCENE ON CHESTNUT STREET erected by Dr. S. S. White, who occupies all of it, exceptthe first floor, for the manufacture and sale of artificialteeth, dentists instruments, etc., in which specialty he doesthe largest business in the world, having branch houses inNew York, Boston, a
. Philadelphia and its environs, and the railroad scenery of Pennsylvania . OLD MASONIC TEMPLE. Of its kind in the city. It presents a front of forty-four feet on Chestnut Street by two hun-dred and forty feet on Twelfth, and its ceiling is twenty-two feet in height. The buildin^ was PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. 29. SCENE ON CHESTNUT STREET erected by Dr. S. S. White, who occupies all of it, exceptthe first floor, for the manufacture and sale of artificialteeth, dentists instruments, etc., in which specialty he doesthe largest business in the world, having branch houses inNew York, Boston, and Chicago. We next pass the building of the Young Mens Chris-tian Association, on Chestnut Street, above Twelfth, andthe Chestnut Street Theatre and Concert Hall, on the op-posite side of the street, and, crossing Thirteenth Street,come to the United States Mint. This building was erected in 1829, pursuant to an act ofCongress enlarging the operations of the government coin-ing, and supplementary to the act creating the Mint, whichwas passed in 1792. The structure is of the Ionic order,copied from a temple at Athens. It is of brick, faced withmarble ashlar. Visitors are admitted before twelve oclock, every dayexcept Saturday and Sunday ; and the beautiful and delicateoperations and contrivances for coining, a
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