Published References

• Conkling-Armstrong Terra Cotta Co. Port-folio / Philadelphia, Pa. : Conkling-Armstrong Terra Cotta Co., 1898., p. plates 24-40
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  Client/Project Name: Witherspoon Building
  Architects Referenced: Conkling Armstrong Terra Cotta Company; Huston, Joseph M. (1866 - 1940)
   
• Lequin, Doris Steele and Leon Clemmer. Descendants of William Steele and History of Wm. Steele & Sons Company. Burtonsville, MD: House of Printing, Inc., 1996., p. 324-327, 449
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  Client/Project Name: Witherspoon Building
  Architect Referenced: William Steele & Son (fl. ca. 1886 - 1900)
   
• The Official Office Building Directory and Architectural Handbook of Philadelphia, The Commercial Publishing and Directory Co., Philadelphia, 1899, p. 648
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  Client/Project Name: Witherspoon Building
  Architect Referenced: Huston, Joseph M. (1866 - 1940)
   
• National Register. (National Register Information System)
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  Client/Project Name: Witherspoon Building
   
• 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: Witherspoon Building
   
• King, Moses. Philadelphia and Notable Philadelphians. New York: Blanchard Press, Isaac H. Blanchard Co., 1901., p. 16
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  Client/Project Name: Witherspoon Building, Presbyterian Board of Publication
   
• Engelhardt, George Washington, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, The Book of Its Bourse & Co-operating Bodies, Philadelphia, Lippincott Press, 1898-99., p. 11
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  Client/Project Name: Witherspoon Building
   
• Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission Cultural Resources Database
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  Client/Project Name: Witherspoon Building
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 10, n. 27, p. 373, 7/3/1895
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  Client/Project Name: Presbyterian Publication Society
  Architect Referenced: Huston, Joseph M. (1866 - 1940)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 10, n. 28, p. 401, 7/10/1895
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  Client/Project Name: Presbyterian Board of Publication
  Architect Referenced: Huston, Joseph M. (1866 - 1940)
   
• AIA/T-Square Yearbook, p. 23, 1896
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  Client/Project Name: Presbyterian Board of Publication
  Architects Referenced: Huston, Joseph M. (1866 - 1940); William Steele & Son (fl. ca. 1886 - 1900)
   
• Philadelphia Real Estate Record and Builders' Guide, v. 20, n. 2, p. 17, 1/11/1905
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  Client/Project Name: Bellevue Realty Company / Witherspoon Building
  Architect Referenced: Huston, Joseph M. (1866 - 1940)
   
• Architecture and Building, Vol. LX, Oct 1923
   
• Philadelphia Register of Historic Places (Imported)
   
• National Register Information System database (imported May 8, 2001)
   

Drawings, Photos, Papers, etc.

• Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Ketcham Collection
  Holding Name: Witherspoon Building
  Quantity: 1 drawing : pencil on paper ; ; 2 photomechanical reproductions : blueprints ; 55.5 x 106 cm., Call Number: KET3313*001; KET3313*002; KET3313*003
  Architects Referenced: Ewing, George Mallison (b. 1888); O. W. Ketcham Terra Cotta Works
   
• Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Lovatt Collection
  Holding Name: Witherspoon Building
  Quantity: 1 drawing, Call Number: LOV*186*001
  Architect Referenced: Lovatt, George Ignatius, Sr. (1872-1958)
   
• Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Olson Collection
  Holding Name: Witherspoon Building
  Quantity: 2 items, Call Number: 192A-N-024
   
• Philadelphia Historical Commission - Philadelphia Historical Commission Files
  Holding Name: 1319-1323 Walnut Street; Witherspoon Building
  Quantity: 4 folders (incl. 18 photographs)
   
• Philadelphia Historical Commission - Philadelphia Historical Commission Files
  Holding Name: 123 - 151 South Broad Street - Fidelity Bank (1325 - 1341 Walnut Street)
  Quantity: 2 Folders (including 55 photographs)
   
• Presbyterian Historical Society - General Collections
  Holding Name: Witherspoon Building
  Quantity: 1 sheet
  Architect Referenced: Huston, Joseph M. (1866 - 1940)
   
• Presbyterian Historical Society - Record Groups
  Holding Name: Witherspoon Building
  Quantity: 1 sheet, Call Number: RG 282
  Architect Referenced: Huston, Joseph M. (1866 - 1940)
   

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