Image Engraving

Second Bank of Pennsylvania, South Second Street, Philadelphia

The Second Bank of Pennsylvania, established in 1793 in a building designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe.

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The bank had branches in Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Lancaster, Reading and Easton. It stayed in business until 1857. From the Library Company of Philadelphia catalog entry: View showing the second edifice of the Bank of Pennsylvania (established 1780), built between 1798 and 1801, after the designs of architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe, on South Second Street above Walnut Street. In the foreground, groups of men converse, a boy pets a dog, and men enter and leave the bank. The first American building built in the Greek Revival style, the bank building was razed around 1870.

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Format (Medium)

Engraving

File Size

47 kb

Image Dimensions

500 x 417 px

Identifier

P.2276.73 (Library Company of Philadelphia)

Physical Object Location

Library Company of Philadelphia