Francis Lane on the Ridge Road
Permanent ID:
3431
Call number:
K: 4-91
Date:
February 1836
Inscription:
Francis Lane on the Ridge Road north of House of Refuge, this sketch made in February 1836 while on my way to see the Girard College then in progress of building, the inverted brick arches to support the colonade were nearly all up and the base of a few of the columns were laid, many hands were at work in the cutting sheds on the south end, Mr. David Sutherland superintending the work; I returned by the East side of the State Penitentiary made another sketch and passed the Small pox Hospital on my right and straight forward all open common to where Samuel Loyd had put up some new brick houses on the North side of Vine Street, passed Mr. Dryburgh, residence, S.W Corner of what is now 19th and Race Streets, arrived at Cherry Street I encountired a gully about 25 feet deep full of black stone, mire and water and had to walk back up to Race to 17th Street to get across, there were then a few Blacksmith shops and small houses on the south side of Filbert Street, inhabited by draymen and others, I then passed along 19th Street to Chestnut the square from Market to Chestnut and Sch. 3rd to Sch 4th St (19th to 20th) had a 7 feet fence around it and was a little dairy full of Cows pasturing with a small brick house, one story, on Chestnut St. standing back. D.J.Kennedy
Address:
Philadelphia
Format:
Watercolors
