Old Federal Reserve Bank Building (Philadelphia)
Old Federal Reserve Bank
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Location | 925 Chestnut St. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
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Built | 1931-35[2] |
Architect | Paul Philippe Cret, Harbeson, Hough, Livingston & Larson |
Architectural style | Classical Revival |
NRHP Reference # | 79002325[1] |
Added to NRHP | June 28, 1979 |
The Old Federal Reserve Bank Building is a historic bank building located at 925 Chestnut Street on the corner of S. 10th Street in the Market East neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The main section was designed by noted architect Paul Philippe Cret in the Classical Revival style influenced by the Beaux-Arts style,[3] and was built between 1931 and 1935. It incorporated the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Building, built in 1899, with additions made in 1918 and 1925. Cret designed the formal gardens which were added in 1941[2] and in 1952-3, a recessed seventh story were added, designed by Harbeson, Hough, Livingston & Larson, the successor firm to Cret.[2] The building features sculptures of the goddess Athena made by Alfred-Alphonse Bottiau.
The building is 11 bays wide, measuring 170 feet wide and 113 feet deep, has a steel frame structure faced with Vermont marble, and has engaged piers.[4]
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1979.[1] It is located on the East Center City Commercial Historic District. The building is now part of the Center City campus of the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.
Gallery
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Old Federal Reserve Building west sculpture.jpg
Bottiau's sculpture on the west side of the main entrance
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Old Federal Reserve Building east sculpture.jpg
Bottiau's sculpture on the east side of the main entrance
See also
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Notes
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External links
- Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
- Federal Reserve Bank, 921-939 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA: 6 photos and 1 photo caption page, at Historic American Buildings Survey
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- Historic American Buildings Survey in Pennsylvania
- Bank buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Neoclassical architecture in Pennsylvania
- Government buildings completed in 1952
- Market East, Philadelphia
- Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Registered Historic Place stubs