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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 ...
In 1875 the north side of the 1000 block (site of the Milne Factory) was a cemetery; the site of the Curtis Building was a lumberyard; the Wyeth sites at 10th and 12th Streets were coal yards; the Wanamaker Factory was the location of the 13th and 15th Street Passenger Railroad stables and car barn.
[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.
May 11, 1976 (North Philadelphia Eastern banks of the Schuylkill River: Fairmount Park: First municipal waterworks in the United States. Designed in 1812 by Frederick Graff and built between 1819 and 1822, it operated until 1909.
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Brush produced additional patents refining the design of his arc lights in the coming years and sold systems to several cities for public lighting, and even equipped Philadelphia's Wanamaker's Grand Depot with a system. [10] His lights were easier to maintain, had automatic functions and burned twice as long as Yablochkov candles.