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In 1910, Wanamaker replaced his Grand Depot in stages, and constructed a new, purpose-built structure on the same site in Center City Philadelphia. The new store, built in the Florentine style with granite walls by Chicago architect Daniel H. Burnham , had 12 floors (nine for retail), numerous galleries and two lower levels totaling nearly two ...
An illustration of Philadelphia City Hall and John Wanamaker's "Grand Depot" at 13th and Market Streets in Philadelphia The Grand Court at 13th and Market Streets in Philadelphia The Wanamaker building at 13th and Market Streets in November 2013. In 1861, Wanamaker opened his first store in partnership with his brother in-law Nathan Brown.
The Wanamaker Organ is located within a spacious 7-story Grand Court at Macy's Center City (formerly Wanamaker's department store) and is played twice a day Monday through Saturday. The organ is featured at several special concerts held throughout the year, including events featuring the Friends of the Wanamaker Organ Festival Chorus and Brass ...
[3] [4] Nevin directed Wanamaker's to buy property on South Broad Street across the street from Philadelphia City Hall. [4] The land was the site of two late-19th-century 13- story high-rises. On the corner of Broad and Penn Square stood the Lincoln Building, originally called the Betz Building.
Keith Chapman (1945–1989) was an American concert organist known best for his flair at playing in the symphonic style of organ performance, and particularly for his long and distinguished association (1966–1989) with the Wanamaker's Department Store of Philadelphia as the principal organist of the Wanamaker Organ.
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But the company abandoned the site by 1875 for locations at Broad Street Station and part of the western bank of the Schuylkill River, leaving the site to become the home of Wanamaker’s. In 1889, the Reading moved its headquarters and main Philadelphia train depot to a new facility, Reading Terminal, at 12th and Market