Old Lutheran Church, in Fifth Street Philadelphia

by William R. Birch, Thomas Birch

$1,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Plate 7 from the very rare first American colour-plate book, with views that are uniquely valuable among American historical prints Martin Snyder . The plate shows the Old Lutheran Church, St. Michael's, on Fifth Street, built in 1743-48 under the leadership of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg for Philadelphia's growing German-speaking Lutheran community. A second Lutheran church, Zion, was begun in 1769, and both congregations used the two buildings for the following century;

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