Identifier: randmcnallyphila00newyo (find matches)
Title: Rand McNally Philadelphia guide to the city and environs
Year: 1915 (1910s)
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Publisher: New York, Rand McNally
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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. TheDrexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry was completedand formally openedDecember 17, 1891,in the presence ofmany distinguishedmen and women.The chief object ofthe Institute is the extension andimprovement of indus-trial education as ameans of opening betterand wider avenues of em-ployment to young menand women. The building is con-structed of light buffbrick, wi th terra cott aornamentations, andmeasures, on theground floor, 200 by200 feet. A richlydecorated portal onChestnut St. leadsinto a spacious ent-rance hall, the ceiHngof which is supportedby pillars of redGeorgian marble. Beyond this is the central court, orqviadrangle, 65 feet square, overarched at the levels of theroof by a skylight of stained glass. Broad galleries surroundthe central court, giving access to the various classrooms,and affording a view of the whole interior. At the rear of thecentral court, with an entrance of its own on 32d St., is theauditorium, which has a seating capacity of 1,500 persons, and
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Clark Park Dickens and Little NellS. 43d Street and WoodlandPage 79 Ave. RAND McNALLY PHILADELPHIA GUIDE 95 an organ of great size. The institution provides technical in-struction by means of both day and night classes, as well aspublic scientific lectures. The Drexel Institute may be reachedby the Chestnut and Walnut St. Hues of surface cars, and vis-itors are admitted daily, except Sunday, from 9 a. m. to 6 p. m.—in winter from 7 to 10 p. m.—to the grand central court,library, and museum. The last mentioned is particularly wortha visit, as here, among other valuable things, is the GeorgeW. Childs collection of manuscripts of famous authors. American Philosophical Society, Independence Sq., S. 5th St.south of Chestnut St. This venerable society was founded inMay, 1763, and in 1785 it erected the present building onIndependence Sq., adjoining the old City Hall. _ Its firstpresident was Benjamin Franklin; the second, David Ritten-house, the astronomer; the third, Thomas Jefferson.

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