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Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, Third & Dock Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

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Penn Mutual Life Insurance Company Building, Third & Dock Streets, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA

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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

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States39.94586, -75.14393
Google Map of 39.9458598, -75.1439302
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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