Holding Information
- Collection:
General Collection - Architectural Drawings
- Institution:
Athenaeum of Philadelphia
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MARC Description:
Job No. 2966-C, Drawing nos. 1-2. First & second floor plans. The Ballinger drawings appear to show alterations to the rest rooms on the second floor, and conversion of first floor space into a new coat room & cocktail lounge. Three drawings previously included with this set dated Mar. 1950, Edwyn Rorke architect, for subcontractor Air-A-Therm Corp, and concerning the air conditioning system, are now cataloged separately. These may have served as reference drawings for this 1961 project. Alden Park is a multi-building apartment complex, built in the 1920's. The address is know from other drawings in the collection. Richard Webster in Philadelphia preserved (1976), p.255 & 393 states that Alden Park is located on the former Justus C. Strawbridge (co-founder of Strawbridge & Clothier Department Store) estate, and that the Strawbridge house, 1885, built to an Addison Hutton design, serves as the restaurant. King's Philadelphia & notable Philadelphians (1902), p. 86, has a photo of this house, called "Torwoth", after the ancient Germantown Academy of this name.
- Quantity: 2 photomechanical reproduction : blueprints ; 92 x 121 cm. or smaller
- Local Call: BAL2966C*001; BAL2966C*002
- RLIN: PAPV92-F3364
- Item dates: 1961
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Holding types:
Blueprints
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Location-
WISSAHICKON AVE near School House Lane ("Germantown")
Philadelphia, PA
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