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Title: Annals of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania, in the olden time : being a collection of memoirs, anecdotes, and incidents of the city and its inhabitants, and of the earliest settlements of the inland part of Pennsylvania ...
Year: 1870 (1870s)
Authors: Watson, John F. (John Fanning), 1779-1860 Hazard, Willis P. (Willis Pope), 1825-1913
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Publisher: Philadelphia : J.M. Stoddart & Co.
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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a little dark alley is a square piece of ground, a coupleof hundred feet, perhaps, each way, between Third and Fourthstreets and Walnut and Willings alley, containing three anti-quated buildings and one of comparatively modern shape. Brick,stone, and gravel walks divide the grounds in all directions, andthe remains of little flower-beds may be seen here and there, andoccasionally a low marble post set deep in the earth, that mighthave been either a gravestone or a gatepost. Two of the oldestof the buildings, quaint, two-story bricks, front on Willingsalley, the ten or fifteen feet between them having been filled upwith a two-story wooden shed. North of these, in the centre ofthe grounds, is the most modern of the buildings—brick, like thefirst, but square at the corners and plumb in appearance, with ashingle roof that might have been put on within the last fiftyyears or so, and this, compared with the rest of the place, ismodern indeed. North of this, again, and within a very short
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Friends Almshouse. 289 all, if, indeed, it is not the oddest that ever was built. A thickbed of green moss covers the southern side of the roof, green evenwith the thermometer reaching for zero, and to the eastern wallclings a rare growth of the ivy green. The roof reaches fardown in front, making a covering for the front door, and besidethe solitary front window is an old-fashioned, heavy bench, socomfortable-looking that it is hard to keep from sitting down on it.A widespreading elm tree hovers over this cozy nook, with apleasant suggestion of summer shades and autumn leaves, and thewhole little place is as comfortable to the eye as it must be to thetwo old ladies who brew their tea and stroke their cat within itswalls. The buildings that front on Williugs alley do not differ ma-terially from hundreds of others that were built in the good olddays of Benjamin Franklin. They may be a little older per-haps, and a little more ready to tumble down, but this is all.They are just as small

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