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Title: Rand, McNally & Co.'s handy guide to Philadelphia and environs, including Atlantic City and Cape May
Year: 1900 (1900s)
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Publisher: Chicago, New York, Rand, McNally & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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t brickstructure erected in Philadelphia. It was built in 1682, and for manyyears was used as the State House for the Province of Pennsylvania.It was taken to its present location many years ago from its originalsite in Letitia Street. Somewhat beyond it stands the old SweetBrier mansion, built about 1S10 by Samuel Breck, an eminent citizenand politician of that period. It commands one of the many wide andinteresting views of the river, and immediately beyond it a rusticbridge carries the drive across Lansdowne Ravine into that partof the Park occupied by the Centennial Exposition. Some of thebuildings remain, and offer inducements to the visitor to enter them. /;/ Horticultural Hall are still kept the magnificent tree fernsand other tropical plants which delighted visitors during the Cen-tennial. The Conservatory measures 230 by 80 feet, and is 55 feethi^h. At the west end of the old hall is stored a splendid collectionof blooming green-house plants, gathered many years ago by George
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THE CITYS PARKS AND DRIVES. 59 W. Carpenter, and presented to the city by his widow. A restaurantis maintained here. Memorial Hall, built in 1876 by the city, at a cost of $1,500,000as a permanent memento of the Centennial, is now partly occupiedby the School and Museums of Industrial Art elsewhere described. George s Hill is an eminence 210 feet in height, north of thesegrounds, from which a very wide landscape is to be surveyed, andit is a favorite resort for picnic parties and carriage-drivers. Itssummit bears the Belmont Reservoir (40,000,000 gallons), and at itsfoot is the allegorical fountain erected here in 1876 by the CatholicTotal Abstinence Society. Continuing along the beautiful drive, a mile further brings one toBelmont Mansion, the Revolutionary country-seat of Judge RichardPeters, an eminent patriot, who was acting as Secretary of Warwhen his friend Morris, of Lemon Hill, was practically Secretary ofthe Treasury. Both Washington, when President, and Lafayette,were entert

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