c. 1820
Plate with Library, Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Library Company, one of the oldest in the country, was established in 1731 in large part thanks to the support of Benjamin Franklin, whose statue is seen in the central niche over the building's front door. The structure, located at 105 South Fifth Street, was demolished in the nineteenth century, but the original façade was reproduced for the Philosophical Society's Library Hall, built on the site in 1959.
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