 | Alexander Graydon - History - 1811 - 394 pages
...that the houses are covered with slate, a material amply supplied from quarries in the neighborhood* But unfortunately, for the source from which the Abbe...account, was exceedingly well adapted to the purpose of a lodging house, to which use it had been long 'appropriated. An additional convenience, was a spacious... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - New York (N.Y.) - 1830 - 902 pages
...old house as very much of a castle in its construction, although built originally for a Friend. "It was a singular old fashioned structure, laid out in...bastions, to which the main building, retreating from 16 to 18 feet, served for a curtain."* " It had a spacious yard, half way to Front street, and ornamented... | |
 | Pennsylvania - 1831 - 586 pages
...which the Abbe derived this piece of information, there were no such quarries near the city that ever 1 heard of, and certainly but a single house in it with...account, was exceedingly well adapted to the purpose of a lodging house, to which use it had been long appropriated. An additional convenience, was a spacious... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1833 - 350 pages
...castle in its construction, although built originally for a Friend. " It was a singular oldfashioned structure, laid out in the style of a fortification,...bastions, to which the main building, retreating from 16 to 18 feet, served for a curtain."* "It had a spacious yard, half way to Front street, and ornamented... | |
 | John Fanning Watson - Pennsylvania - 1833 - 336 pages
...castle in its construction, although built originally for a Friend. " It was a singular oldfashioned structure, laid out in the style of a fortification,...bastions, to which the main building, retreating from 1 6 to 18 feet, served for a curtain."* "It had a spacious yard, half way to Front street, and ornamented... | |
 | Sherman Day - Pennsylvania - 1843 - 754 pages
...humorous annalist, has left many interesting sketches. He describes it as " a singular old-fashioned structure, laid out in the style of a fortification,...bastions, to which the main building, retreating from 16 to 18 feet, served for a curtain. It had a spacious yard half-way to Front-street, and ornamented... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - United States - 1846 - 534 pages
...information, there were no such quarries near the city that ever I heard of, and certainly but a smgle house in it with this kind of roof, which, from that...account, was exceedingly well adapted to the purpose of a lodging house, to which use it had been long appropriated. An additional convenience, was a spacious... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - 1846 - 532 pages
...distinguished by the name of The Slate House. It stood in Second street, at the corner of Morris's alley, and was a singular old fashioned structure,...account, was exceedingly well adapted to the purpose of a lodging house, to which use it had been long appropriated. An additional convenience, was a spacious... | |
 | Alexander Graydon - United States - 1846 - 530 pages
...was a singular old fashioned structure, laid out in the style of a fortification, with•abundance of angles both salient and re-entering. Its two wings...account, was exceedingly well adapted to the purpose of a lodging house, to which use it had been long appropriated. An additional convenience, was a spacious... | |
 | Charles Augustus Goodrich - America - 1848 - 646 pages
...castle in its construction, although built originally for a Friend. ' It was a singular old-fashioned structure, laid out in the style of a fortification,...bastions, to which the main building, retreating from 16 to 18 feet, served for a curtain. John Adams and other members of the first Congress had their lodgings... | |
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Norris's alley, and was a singular, old fashioned •structure, laid out in the style of a fortification, with abundance of angles both salient and re-entering. Its two wings projected to the street in the manner of bastions, to which, the main building... 
