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Bank of Pennsylvania

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Item No: pdcc00679
Title: Bank of Pennsylvania
Historic Street Address: 2nd & Walnut Streets
Media Type: Scrapbooks
Source: Print and Picture Collection
Notes:

Depiction of the front facade of the bank building from Second Street. Built in 1800 the Benjamin Latrobe-designed building was the first example of Greek Revival-style in the United States. Constructed of Pennsylvania marble, the much-admired building featured two porticos of six Ionic columns each.


Geocode Latitude: Geocode Longitude:-75.144430
Geocode Latitude:39.946856

Call Number: A917.481 P536 v.8
Creator Name: Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820 - Architect
Castner, Samuel, Jr., 1843-1929 - Compiler