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 . ofthe visitor. This store-room is the largest of its kind in the city. Itpresents a front of forty-four feet on Chestnut Street by two hundredand forty feet on Twelfth, and its ceiling is twenty-two feet in building was erected by Dr. S. S. White, who occupies all of it,except the first floor. We next pass the Chestnut Street Theatre and Concert Hall, on theopposite side of the street, and, crossing Thirteen
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 . ofthe visitor. This store-room is the largest of its kind in the city. Itpresents a front of forty-four feet on Chestnut Street by two hundredand forty feet on Twelfth, and its ceiling is twenty-two feet in building was erected by Dr. S. S. White, who occupies all of it,except the first floor. We next pass the Chestnut Street Theatre and Concert Hall, on theopposite side of the street, and, crossing Thirteenth Street, come to theUnited States Mint. (See Mint.) Opposite the Mint is the new building of the Presbyterian Board ofPublication. .Soon after crossing Broad Street, we pass the elegantbuilding of the Baptist Board of Publication. Here, on opposite corners of Fifteenth and Chestnut, stand the hallof the Young Mens Christian Association and the Colonnade on are the Reform Club and the West End Hotel. From Sixteenth Street, rows of stately dwellings extend to theSchuylkill, over which a substantial and elegant bridge has recentlybeen thrown. (See Bridges.). BUILDING OF THE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW YORK. ICH STREETS.—MARKET STREET. Market Street, from river to river, is the grand eittrep6t ofinlandand foreign commerce. Its magnificent width affords ample room andgreat facilities for the moving of heavy goods; railway tracks are laiddown in it, running directly into numerous depots and warehouses, andwhole cargoes of merchandise are thus daily sent from the warehousedirect to distant points. A walk along this street shows many fine buildings, but few ofspecial note. Some are found of historic interest, such as the OldLondon Coffee-House, on the corner of Front and Market, PennsHouse, in Letitia Street, and Christ Church, in Second Street, aboveMarket. Second Street presents in itself a peculiar feature of the city, whichthe visitor should not fail to s
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