Hall Details, Congress Hall 181

LXXXIV. Interior Detail of Main Entrance, Congress
Hall; President's Dais, Senate
Chamber, Congress Hall 190

LXXXV. Gallery, Senate Chamber, Congress Hall 191

LXXXVI. Carpenters' Hall, off Chestnut Street
between South Third and South
Fourth Streets. Erected in 1770;
Old Market House, Second and Pine
Streets 196

LXXXVII. Main Building, Pennsylvania Hospital.
Erected in 1755 197

LXXXVIII. Main Hall and Double Staircase, Pennsylvania
Hospital 206

LXXXIX. Custom House, Fifth and Chestnut
Streets. Completed in 1824; Main
Building, Girard College. Begun in
1833 207

XC. Old Stock Exchange, Walnut and Dock
Streets; Girard National Bank, 116
South Third Street 210

XCI. Christ Church, North Second Street near
Market Street. Erected in 1727-44;
Old Swedes' Church, Swanson and
Christian Streets. Erected in 1698-1700 211

XCII. St. Peter's Church, South Third and
Pine Streets. Erected in 1761; Lectern,
St. Peter's Church 216

XCIII. Interior and Chancel, Christ Church;
Interior and Lectern, St. Peter's
Church 217

XCIV. Interior and Chancel, Old Swedes' Church;
St. Paul's Church, South Third Street
near Walnut Street 220

XCV. Mennonite Meeting House, Germantown.
Erected in 1770; Holy Trinity
Church, South Twenty-first and Walnut
Streets 221

_The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia_

CHAPTER I

PHILADELPHIA ARCHITECTURE

Philadelphia occupies a unique position in American architecture. Few of
the early settled cities of the United States can boast so extensive or
so notable a collection of dwellings and public buildings in the
so-called Colonial style, many of them under auspices that insure their
indefinite perpetuation. These beautiful old structures are almost
exclusively of brick and stone and of a more elaborate and substa