John McArthur Jr.
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John McArthur Jr. was a prominent American architect based in Philadelphia. Best remembered as the architect of the landmark Philadelphia City Hall, McArthur also designed some of the city's most ambi
An 1860 illustration of McArthur
Upon its completion, Philadelphia City Hall, built between 1874 and 1901, was the tallest occupied building in the world and the world's third-tallest building structure after the Washington Monument, which is 7 feet / 2.1 meters taller, and the Eiffel Tower, which is 515 feet / 157 meters taller. It remains the world's tallest all-masonry occupied building.
Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia (1859-65)
First National Bank building, now Science History Institute, Philadelphia
Tenth Presbyterian Church
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Tenth Presbyterian Church is a congregation located in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Tenth is a part of the Presbyterian Church in America, a denomination in the Reformed tra
John McArthur Jr.
…hospital on Pea Patch Island. Philadelphia has looked up to McArthur's architecture for more than a century. The 250-foot-tall tower-and-spire of his Tenth Presbyterian Church (1854) was the tallest structure in the city when built. (Its 150-foot wooden spire was removed in 1912.) Later, this was surpassed by the tower of…
Current church building
Tenth Church before the removal of the spires in 1912
Henry Augustus Boardman
James Montgomery Boice Plaque