enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. 1798 Bank of Pennsylvania heist - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1798_Bank_of_Pennsylvania...

    The 1798 Bank of Pennsylvania heist was the robbery of $162,821 (over $2.9 million today) on the night between August 31 and September 1, 1798 from the Bank of Pennsylvania at Carpenters' Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Isaac Davis and Thomas Cunningham. [1] It is notable as the first major bank robbery in the United States.

  3. Patrick Lyon (blacksmith) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Lyon_(blacksmith)

    Patrick Lyon (c. 1769, Edinburgh, Scotland – April 15, 1829, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was a Scottish-born American blacksmith, mechanic and inventor. After being falsely accused and imprisoned for a 1798 bank robbery, he became a working class hero. [1] A self-made businessman, he was among the foremost American makers of hand-pumped fire ...

  4. Bank of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_Pennsylvania

    Bank of Pennsylvania building designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe.Engraving by William Birch. Civil War memorial Adrian Michigan. In 1793, the Bank of Pennsylvania was established with a charter from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and branches were opened in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Reading, and Easton. [2]

  5. Carpenters' Hall - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenters'_Hall

    Carpenters Hall was the site of the 1798 Bank of Pennsylvania heist. [11] [12] The federal Custom House in Philadelphia was located at Carpenters' Hall between 1802 and 1819, except for a brief interruption between January and April, 1811. [13] In 1970, Carpenters' Hall was declared a National Historic Landmark. [14]

  6. List of works by Benjamin Henry Latrobe - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Benjamin...

    1797–1798 [3] Gamble Hill (Col. John Harvie's home) Richmond 1798 [4] Bank of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia: 1798–1801 First major Greek Revival building in the United States. Sedgeley: Philadelphia 1799–1802 Built for William Cramond on the Schuylkill River, but the mansion fell into disrepair after 1836 when it was subdivided.

  7. Greek Revival architecture in North America - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Revival_architecture...

    Marcus Whiffen states that the "first building in the United States to incorporate a Greek order was the Bank of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe in 1798". [1] Talbot Hamlin says that "The period called 'Greek Revival,' extend[s] roughly from 1820 to 1860." [2] The Millford Plantation, South Carolina, ca. 1840

  8. AOL Mail

    mail.aol.com

    Get AOL Mail for FREE! Manage your email like never before with travel, photo & document views. Personalize your inbox with themes & tabs. You've Got Mail!

  9. Kissling Farm - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kissling_Farm

    The Kissling Farm complex has seven contributing buildings, one contributing site, and three contributing structures. They are a 2 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, five-bay, vernacular Federal stone farmhouse with kitchen ell addition (1798, c. 1805); frame Pennsylvania bank barn on a limestone foundation (1890); 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story stone cabin (1793); four stone and frame outbuildings; and three structures.