File:Philadelphia Gas Works, Point Breeze Meter House, Intersection of Passyunk and Schuylkill Avenues, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA HAER PA,51-PHILA,699A- (sheet 4 of 6).tif

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HAER PA,51-PHILA,699A- (sheet 4 of 6) - Philadelphia Gas Works, Point Breeze Meter House, Intersection of Passyunk and Schuylkill Avenues, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
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Cresson, John C
Merrick, Samuel V
Orr, David, historian
Levy, Herb, historian
Clement, Daniel, historian
Jackson, Donald C, historian
Levy, Herbert W, delineator
Christianson, Justine, transmitter
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HAER PA,51-PHILA,699A- (sheet 4 of 6) - Philadelphia Gas Works, Point Breeze Meter House, Intersection of Passyunk and Schuylkill Avenues, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Philadelphia County; Philadelphia
Date Documentation compiled after 1968
Dimensions 24 x 36 in. (D size)
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HAER PA,51-PHILA,699A- (sheet 4 of 6)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: These structures represent one of America's early large scale gas production facilities. Constructed in the Gothic Style they were important structures that contributed to the growth of Philadelphia's municipal services.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1393
  • Survey number: HAER PA-41
  • Building/structure dates: 1851-1854 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1861 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: ca. 1868 Subsequent Work
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa1314.sheet.00004a
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Object location39° 57′ 07.99″ N, 75° 09′ 51.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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