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Title: Historic buildings of America as seen and described by famous writers;
Year: 1906 (1900s)
Authors: Singleton, Esther, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Historic buildings Historic buildings
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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wards High Street, and so en-tirely closes the court at that end (formerly open as a cartpassage) that from that cause alone, to those not well-informed it looks as the principal house, and may havetherefore been regarded by transient passengers as Pennshouse. This house his commissioners had placed for him, as he requested,facing the river. It was on Front Street south of the present MarketStreet, in the centre of a lot which ran back to Second Street, alongMarket, and included about half the block. There were no houses thenbetween Front Street and the river-shore. The house was of brick, andis still preserved, as we suppose, but has been removed to FairmountPark. It was always known as the Letitia House, because he afterwardsgave it, with its large lot, to his daughter. In it, I have no doubt, manyof the early meetings of the Provincial Council were held, and it maybe considered the first state-house of the Province.—Sidney GeorgeFisher, The True William Penn (Philadelphia, 1900).
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oo X2 < THE WILLIAM PENN HOUSE, PHILADELPHIA 165 The truth is that for many years the great mass of thepopulation had dropt or lost the tradition about Pennshouse in the court; and it is only of later years, antiquitiesbeginning to excite some attention, that the more intelli-gent citizens have revived some of their former hearingsabout the court. During all the earlier years of my life, Inever heard of Penn living there at all; but of later yearsI have. I have been, therefore, diligent to ask old menabout it. Several said it never used to be spoken of intheir youth. John Warder, an intelligent merchant, nowabove seventy-three years of age, was born at the cornerhouse of the alley on High Street, and has told me he neverwas told of Penns living there, when a boy. On the otherhand, a few old men have told me, at every period of theirlife the tradition (though known to but few) was, that itwas one of two houses, to wit—either Doyles Inn, or theold Rising Sun Inn on the western side

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