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In later years when the business district moved west following City Hall to Broad Street the region continued to support a major publishing industry with nationally known medical, scientific and trade publications based on Washington Square. These businesses are housed in buildings designed by important local architects who shaped the Philadelphia regional architectural school, including T.
Walter, Frank Furness, T. Chandler and Ralph Bencker. Many of these were adapted to serve the immigrant population that arrived at the end of the nineteenth century and extended Philadelphia's black ghetto which had centered around Sixth and Pine streets in the vicinity of Mother Bethel AME Church. Originally developed as a unified mercantile neighborhood where families often lived above their businesses, the history of the district during the years was largely that of the ever greater social, and architectural separation between professional workplaces along Walnut Street and low skilled work along the river front.
These changes were paralleled by the separation of residence and workplace for the elite who in the era before the horsecar and other forms of transportation had lived near the commercial district. Their move out of the district after the Civil War coincided with the transformation of much of the residential portion of the district into a congested nix of work and residence for the poor.
In the nineteenth century, Philadelphia lost its position as the nation's largest city but it remained one of its principal centers of finance during the years covered by this nomination even after its stranglehold on the nation's finance was ended by Andrew Jackson's opposition- to the Bank of the United States in the s.
Walnut Street remains a major center of the Insurance industry to the present day with important buildings dating from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries continuing to serve that industry. Walter in Because those businesses remained concentrated here, Walnut Street retains the staid appearance that came to characterize the insurance industry as it sought to portray itself as a stable financial asset.
This was in marked contrast to the more eye-catching offices and banks of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. The range of commercial buildings that survive in the-Society Hill Historic District describes the evolution of commercial design over a longer period of time than any other portion of the city. Interspersed with the insurance offices are early twentieth century buildings for the publishing and advertising trades which remained in the old downtown when the banking and commercial businesses moved west.
They cross the border of the district into the East Center City Historic District, forming a continuous skein of brick and limestone colonial revival buildings which represented the city of Independence to the rest of the nation.
Designed by such prominent local architects as John T. Windrim, Ralph Bencker and Edgar Seeler, these later publishing buildings together with twentieth century insurance company offices make a clear statement about the local intention of establishing a regional style utilizing the red brick and light stone trim of the eighteenth century.
In this, it contrasts with the buildings of the new center city at Broad and Market streets, which are typically of marble and limestone, more in accord with the national stylistic trends. The businesses established in the district have significance too. For example, the idea of the insurance company was formulated with the Philadelphia Contributorship while later companies such as Penn Mutual are among the giants of the industry.
Other related industries -printing and advertising were centered in the district as well. The city's premier advertising agency, N. Ayer and Co. Though Ayer left for New York in the s, its building is a major landmark, with its three-story high figures of "Truth in Advertising" at the top commanding attention.
Other businesses of note include the J. Lippincott Press, and scientific and medical publishers, Lea and Febiger at the south east corner of Washington Square , and W. Saunders on the west side of the Square. Because the southern portion of Society Hill continued as a fashionable place of residence until after the Civil War, significant buildings were constructed there as well. The handsome brownstone row for Michael Bouvier on the block of south Fourth Street are among the few houses in the district to take into account modern Italianate styling.
Interspersed with the mansions of old Philadelphia were new churches, institutions and schools which were erected to serve the growing residential population.
John Notman's Athenaeum building on Washington Square, was built to serve local businessmen as well as nearby residents.
It is an important early Italianate structure, already individually listed as a National Landmark, and introduced the style of Charles Barry's London club buildings to an American audience. But it is not the only building to show the effects of the popularization of classical styles.
It was stuccoed and given a modern Roman Corinthian portico, while Thomas U. These used the new, more ornate Italianate and Roman Revival styles which are now rare in Philadelphia because most were erected before the Civil War along Broad Street and have been demolished to make sites for new office towers. After the Civil War, the population density of the district increased as its more prosperous residents moved westward and out of the district.
The black community which had settled on the outskirts of the old city stayed in the vicinity of Sixth Street. The new arrivals also left their mark on Society Hill in modernized houses that reflected the changing taste of the late nineteenth century, and new apartment houses that brought modern urban scale to the colonial village. In addition, both the black and Jewish communities built their own religious structures which survive as reminders of the district's ethnic diversity and contribute to its architectural diversity.
Most important of these is the Mother Bethel A. Church [Fig. Built on the site of the founding of the African Methodist Episcopal Church whose first bishop Richard Allen was rector here, this plot of land has been continually owned by blacks longer than any other in the country.
The substantial stone facade of the building at once testifies to its congregation's pride in the church's history and perhaps to its economic prosperity.
There is no one Jewish synagogue that symbolizes the aspirations and history of the entire community as Mother Bethel does for the district's black residents. The bells from St. Very cute and very safe. Resident 2y ago.
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