Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, Third & Dock Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Summary
Significance: The first cast-iron building in Philadelphia, and one of the earliest cast-iron buildings in the nation. A new method of jointing and bolting cast-iron plates was used. The building was demolished in the Fall of 1956.
Survey number: HABS PA-1451
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 39.94586, -75.14393
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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