Published Biographical References

• Morrone, Francis. An Architectural Guidebook to Philadelphia. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 1999., p. 11
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• Dictionary of American Biography, under the Auspices of the American Council of Learned Societies. New York, C. Scribner's sons, 1928- , v. 11, p. 550-551
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• Cotter, John, Daniel G. Roberts, Michael Parrington, The Buried Past An Archaelogical History of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 1992, p. 418
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• Lee, Antoinette J. Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000., p. 112-113
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• Moss, Roger W. Philadelphia Victorian. Philadelphia: The Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 1998., p. 118
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• Morris, Charles, ed. Makers of Philadelphia: An Historical Work. Philadelphia: L. R. Hamersly & Co., 1894., p. 210
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• Maynard, W. Barksdale, Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2002, p. 51
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• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 3, n. 7, p. i, 71, 2/20/1888
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• Jackson, Joseph. Early Philadelphia Architects and Engineers. Philadelphia: 1923.
   
• Keefe, John W. "The Setting of the Designs for the Philadelphia City Hall and Its Building through the Laying of the Cornerstone, July 4, 1874." M.A. Thesis, Yale University, 1965.
   
• Macmillan Encyclopedia of Architects. New York: Macmillan, 1982, v.3, p. 133-134.
   
• Mason, George Champlin. "Professional Ancestry of the Philadelphia Chapter." Journal of the American Institute of Architects 1 (September 1913): 371-386.
   
• Obituary: American Architect and Building News 28 (January 1890): 33; Architecture and Building 12 (18 January 1890)
   
• "Supervising Architect: Sketch of the Gentleman of Whom the Honor of the Appointment Has Been Confirmed," Philadelphia Inquirer (Dec. 4, 1874), 3.
   
• Wodehouse, Lawrence. "John McArthur, Jr." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 28 (1969): 108-138.
   

Biographical Drawings, Photos, Papers, etc.

• Photograph of Elizabeth Wilson McArthur Summers, Private Collections - Collection of Linda May (Summers) Lamirand
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• Portrait of John McArthur Jr., Thomas Ustick Walter, and James Sims, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Thomas Ustick Walter Collection
  Call Number: 122-P-028
  Quantity: 1 Item
   
• John McArthur Jr. to H. Cranford 7/10/1882, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - George Herzog Collection
  Call Number: 51-M-001
  Quantity: 1 Item
  Dates: 1882
   
• John McArthur Jr. to James G. Hill 7/10/1882, Athenaeum of Philadelphia - George Herzog Collection
  Call Number: 51-M-002
  Quantity: 1 Item
  Dates: 1882
   
• Collins & Autenreith Collection, University of Delaware Library, Newark, DE
   

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