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Title: Philadelphia and its environs
Year: 1876 (1870s)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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hill Street we come to the passenger depot of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail-road, and just above it, but on the opposite side of the street, the extensive buildings of theBaldwin Locomotive Works, an establishment which boasts the proud distinction of being thelargest, as it is among the oldest, of its kind in the world. Spring Garden Street, which bounds the Baldwin Locomotive Works on the north, is one ofa few streets which deserve special notice for the generous manner in which they are laid out.From Twelfth to Broad a beautiful little park occupies the centre of the street,—which is nearlyor quite as wide as Broad Street itself,—and this will probably be continued all the way toFairmount Park, in a few years. Below Twelfth the street is occupied by a long line of market-houses. Beyond Broad Street it is lined by fine, comfortable residences, some of which arestrikingly handsome. The row in which W. B. Bements house stands, above Eighteenth 54 PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS.
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PHILADELPHIA AND ITS ENVIRONS. 55 Street, shown in our illustration, is especially noticeable. Girard Avenue is laid out in thesame way. A granite monument erected April 19, 1872, by the Washington Grays, to thememory of their fallen comrades, stands in the centre of the avenue, just below Broad. On the southwest corner of Broad and Green Streets we pass the Central High School,—aplain but not inelegant brick edifice,—and on the northwest corner a handsome Presbyterianchurch, built in the Norman style of architecture. Beside this stands the Jewish synagogueRodef Shalom, a good specimen of the Saracenic style, and a very handsome though verypecuhar building. Above this point, the section of Broad Street extending from Fairmount Avenue to ColumbiaAvenue, a distance of about a mile, is lined with handsome private residences, and is a favoritedrive and promenade. On Sunday afternoons the sidewalks are crowded with promenaders,and the whole presents a scene of life and animation striki

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