Stephen Girard Building (Girard Trusts Building) from N
Stephen Girard Building (Girard Trusts Building), lower part of N façade
The thirteen story Stephen Girard Building at Girard and 12th Streets was begun in 1896 as offices for the Board of the Stephen Girard Estates Trust. The new building was designed by James H. Windrim, a Girard College graduate. Windrim combined classical motifs, like the Ionic portico and entablature facing 12th Street and the eight caryatids flanking the entrance, with the latest "skyscraper" construction. This photograph was taken when demolition of buildings on Market Street allowed less elaborate N façade to be seen.
Windrim, James H. (American architect, 1840-1919)
Photographer: Lee T. Pearcy
Image: December 31, 2015
1896
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CP2016-004
21 South 12th St., Philadelphia, PA
Stephen Girard Building (Girard Trusts Building) from NE
Stephen Girard Building, upper stories from NE
The thirteen story Stephen Girard Building at Girard and 12th Streets was begun in 1896 as offices for the Board of the Stephen Girard Estates Trust. The new building was designed by James H. Windrim, a Girard College graduate. Windrim combined classical motifs, like the Ionic portico and entablature facing 12th Street and the eight caryatids flanking the entrance, with the latest "skyscraper" construction. The building opened on December 18, 1897 and the Board moved in on November 21, 1898. The architect's rendering and early photographs show balconies at the eleventh floor on the N and W façades
Windrim, James H. (American architect, 1840-1919)
Photographer: Lee T. Pearcy
Image: December 31, 2015
1896
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CP2016-001
21 South 12th St., Philadelphia, PA
Phidias Studying for the Parthenon Frieze
Oil sketch of Phidias studying horses and riders from the life for the Parthenon frieze.
Eakins, Thomas (American painter, photographer, and sculptor, 1844-1916)
Johnson, Geraldine A.,ed., Sculpture & Photography (1998) Page 55.
ca. 1883-1890.
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Parthenon, Phidias
Oil, fiberboard.
00-00575
American
Modern, realism
Repository: Bryn Mawr College Image Collection
George Washington, Patriae Pater
One of a series of at least 79 portraits of Washington painted by Rembrandt Peale, only one of them from life. In this "porthole" style painting Washington is surrounded with classical motifs. The oak wreath or "corona civica," awarded to Roman citizens for saving the life of a fellow citizen in battle, along with the Latin legend "Patriae Pater" or "Father of his Country" probably evoke classical republican ideals rather than the Emperor Augustus, who was given the title Augustus and awarded the civic crown in 27 BCE and in 2 BCE received the title "Pater Patriae." The mask of Jupiter, king of the Roman gods, in the keystone affirms not only Washington's supremacy, but also classical ideals of leadership. Philadelphians may have remembered the Walnut Street Theatre's display on December 23, 1799, ten days after Washington's death, which featured "an affecting scene of a tomb, in the center of which was a portrait of the sage and hero, encircled by oak leaves."
Peale, Rembrandt (American painter, 1778-1860)
ca. 1824
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Oil on canvas
72 1/4 x 54 1/4 in. (183.5 x 137.8 cm.)
CP2014-040
American
Repository: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Accession number: 1912.14.4
Arcadia
Eakins, Thomas (American painter, photographer, and sculptor, 1844-1916)
Goodrich, Lloyd. Thomas Eakins, (Cambridge, MA, Harvard UP, 1982) page 253, number 121. Data from: Bryn Mawr College
1883
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plaster cast
00-00584
American
U.S. Naval Home
exterior
Strickland, William (American architect, painter, and engraver, 1788-1854)
Wayne Andrews
Photographer: Wayne Andrews
Image: between 1945 and 1953
Wayne Andrews Archive
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CP2015-041
American
Philadelphia, PA
Repository: Wayne Andrews Archive
Accession number: WA0863
Center Square Water Works - Copy of Drawing
Center Square Water Works - Copy of Drawing "North and South Front of Center Square Engine House - Drawing Fred Graff August 3, 1799"
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry (British architect and engineer, 1764-1820, active in the United States)
City of Philadelphia
1799
Image supplied by City of Philadelphia Department of Records. Further information: www.phillyhistory.org
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CP2014-043
City Hall, Philadelphia
Repository: City of Philadelphia, Department of Records
Accession Number: 3535-0-6242
Center Square Water Works - Copy of Drawing
Center Square Water Works - Copy of Drawing "Elevation of Lower Engine House - Drawing by Fred Graff - August 3, 1799"
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry (British architect and engineer, 1764-1820, active in the United States)
City of Philadelphia
1799
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CP2014-042
City Hall
Repository: City of Philadelphia, Department of Records
Accession Number: 3534-0-6241
George Washington, Patriae Pater
One of a series of at least 79 portraits of Washington painted by Rembrandt Peale, only one of them from life. In this "porthole" style painting Washington is surrounded with classical motifs. The oak wreath or "corona civica," awarded to Roman citizens for saving the life of a fellow citizen in battle, along with the Latin legend "Patriae Pater" or "Father of his Country" probably evoke classical republican ideals rather than the Emperor Augustus, who was given the title Augustus and awarded the civic crown in 27 BCE and in 2 BCE received the title "Pater Patriae." The mask of Jupiter, king of the Roman gods, in the keystone affirms not only Washington's supremacy, but also classical ideals of leadership. Philadelphians may have remembered the Walnut Street Theatre's display on December 23, 1799, ten days after Washington's death, which featured "an affecting scene of a tomb, in the center of which was a portrait of the sage and hero, encircled by oak leaves."
Peale, Rembrandt (American painter, 1778-1860)
ca. 1824
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Oil on canvas
72 1/4 x 54 1/4 in. (183.5 x 137.8 cm.)
CP2014-040
American
Repository: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Accession Number: 1912.14.4
Warne tomb, West Laurel Hill Cemetery
Rear view, facing E toward Schuylkill River
Grave monument of the Warne family in the form of a classical altar with Ionic columns at the four corners.
Unknown
Photographer: Lee T. Pearcy
Image: March 22, 2014
1890s-1920s
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CP2014-039
American
Modern, neo-classical
West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania