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Published References

  • Society of Architectural Historians. Massey, James C. ed. Two Centuries of Philadelphia Architectural Drawings, Catalogue of the Exhibit Held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Society of Architectural Historians and The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1964., p. 27-28
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    Client/Project Name: Girard College / Girard College
    Architect Referenced: Strickland, George (1797 - 1851)
     
  • Wermeil, Sara E. The Fireproof Building: Technology and Public Safety in the Nineteenth-Century American City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000., p. 27-32
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    Client/Project Name: Girard College / Founder's Hall
     
  • Teitelman, Edward, and Richard W. Longstreth. Architecture in Philadelphia: A Guide. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1974., p. 139
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    Client/Project Name: Founder's Hall, Girard College
     
  • Cutler, John B. Girard College Architectural Competition Ann Arbor, MI: University Microfilms International, 1991.
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Society of Architectural Historians. Massey, James C. ed. Two Centuries of Philadelphia Architectural Drawings, Catalogue of the Exhibit Held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Society of Architectural Historians and The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1964., p. 38
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    Client/Project Name: Stephen Girard / Girard College
    Architect Referenced: Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
     
  • Engelhardt, George Washington, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, The Book of Its Bourse & Co-operating Bodies, Philadelphia, Lippincott Press, 1898-99., p. 37
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    Client/Project Name: Stephen Girard
     
  • Gilchrist, Agnes Addison. William Strickland: Architect and Engineer 1788-1854.. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1950., p. 87
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    Client/Project Name: Girard College
    Architect Referenced: Strickland, William (1788 - 1854)
     
  • Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) Collection at the Library of Congress
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    Client/Project Name: Girard College, Founder's Hall (HABS PA-1731)
     
  • Society of Architectural Historians. Massey, James C. ed. Two Centuries of Philadelphia Architectural Drawings, Catalogue of the Exhibit Held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Society of Architectural Historians and The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1964., p. 39-40
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    Client/Project Name: Stephen Girard / Girard College for Orphans
    Architect Referenced: Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
     
  • Wild, J. C. Panorama and Views of Philadelphia and its Vicinity.... (Philadelphia: J.B. Chevalier, 1838). , p. Plate 5
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    Client/Project Name: Girard College
    Architect Referenced: Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
     
  • Scattergood, David. Handbook of Girard College Philadelphia: D. Scattergood, 1888.
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • National Register. (National Register Information System)
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    Client/Project Name: Founder's Hall, Girard College
     
  • King, Moses. Philadelphia and Notable Philadelphians. New York: Blanchard Press, Isaac H. Blanchard Co., 1901., p. 7
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    Client/Project Name: Girard College, main bldg
     
  • Cunningham, Ernest. Memories of Girard College. Philadelphia: Girard College, 1942.
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Pennsylvania Cultural Resources Geographic Information System, a cooperative venture of the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission and the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation.
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    Client/Project Name: Founder's Hall, Girard College
     
  • Webster, Richard J., Philadelphia Preserved. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1976., p. 285-286, 296-297
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
    Architects Referenced: Highlands, Findley; Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
     
  • Tatum, George B., Penn's Great Town. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1961., p. 72, 100, 175-176, plate 67, 68
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Herrick, Cheeseman Abiah. History of Girard College Philadelphia: Girard College, 1927.
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Laverty, Bruce, Michael J. Lewis, and Michele Taillon Taylor. Monument to Philanthropy: The Design and Building of Girard College, 1832-1848. Philadelphia: Girard College, 1998.
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Taylor, Michele Taillon. Building For Democracy: Girard College Political, Educational and Architectural Ideology. Ann Arbor: UMI Dissertation Services, 1997.
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • Arey, Henry W. The Girard College and Its Founder. Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 1857.
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    Client/Project Name: (untitled)
     
  • White, Theo B., ed., Philadelphia Architecture in the Nineteenth Century. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1953., p. 26, plate 28
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    Client/Project Name: Girard College, Founders' Hall
    Architect Referenced: Walter, Thomas Ustick (1804-1887)
     
  • Morrone, Francis. An Architectural Guidebook to Philadelphia. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, 1999., p. 219-220
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    Client/Project Name: Founders' Hall, Girard College
    Architect Referenced: Haviland, John (1792-1852)
     
  • Society of Architectural Historians. Massey, James C. ed. Two Centuries of Philadelphia Architectural Drawings, Catalogue of the Exhibit Held at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Philadelphia: Society of Architectural Historians and The Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1964., p. 24
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    Client/Project Name: Founder's Hall, Girard College
     
  • Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Cultural Resources Database
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    Client/Project Name: Founder's Hall, Girard College
     
  • Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 46, n. 31, p. 271, 8/5/1931
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    Client/Project Name: Girard College
    Architect Referenced: Windrim, John Torrey (1866-1934)
     
  • Philadelphia Register of Historic Places (Imported)
    Scattergood, David. Handbook of Girard College. (Philadelphia: D. Scattergood, 1888).
     
  • National Register Information System database (imported May 8, 2001)
     
  • HABS/HAER/HALS list for Philadelphia and surrounding counties (imported November 8, 2001)
     

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