Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street Philadelphia

by William R. Birch, Thomas Birch

$2,200 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Plate 27 from the very rare first American colour-plate book, with views that are uniquely valuable among American historical prints Martin Snyder . The print records the second building of the Bank of Pennsylvania on South Second Street above Walnut Street. Designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and built between 1798 and 1801, the bank was among the earliest and most influential American statements of Greek Revival architecture. The building was still unfinished when Birch

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