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[Bank building (2nd Bank of the United States") Pennsylvania. Roof plan]" – Historic Photo Reproduction

[Bank building (2nd Bank of the United States") Pennsylvania. Roof plan]", 1818 — historic drawing
[Bank building (2nd Bank of the United States") Pennsylvania. Roof plan]", 1818. Historic drawing from the Philadelphia collection.

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This rare historic drawing captures [Bank building (2nd Bank of the United States") Pennsylvania. Roof plan]" in remarkable detail. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.

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Few buildings in Philadelphia expressed the young nation's ambitions as boldly as the Second Bank of the United States, and this roof plan dates from 1818, when the project was taking shape. William Strickland designed the building in the Greek Revival style, with a colonnade of Doric columns inspired by the Parthenon, and its front influenced bank architecture well beyond Philadelphia. Congress chartered the bank in 1816 to stabilize the national currency, and its headquarters on Chestnut Street was meant to look as permanent as the institution itself. The roof plan shows how the building's massive walls and hidden framing were arranged above the public spaces below.

Created / published1818
MediumADE - UNIT 2546, no. 7 (D size) [P&P]Check for an online group record (may link to related items)
Genreand Engineering (ADE) Drawings" (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/103_ade.html)."
NotesFor information see Architecture
SubjectsDesign
Original scan1,536 × 1,057 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-175827

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