Locust Street
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Locust Street is a major historic street in Center City Philadelphia. The street is the location of several prominent Philadelphia-based buildings, historic sights, and high-rise residential locations. It is an east–west street throughout Center City Philadelphia and runs largely parallel to Chestnut Street, another major Center City Philadelphia street.
Musical Fund Hall at 808 Locust Street, where the first Republican nominating convention for president and vice president was held from June 17 to 19, 1856
Curtis Institute of Music at 1726 Locust Street, one of the nation's most elite conservatories
Frank Miles Day
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Frank Miles Day was a Philadelphia-based architect who specialized in residences and academic buildings.
The Art Club of Philadelphia at 220 South Broad Street in Philadelphia, designed by Day, built in 1889-1890 and demolished in 1975-1776
1213-1215 Locust Street in Philadelphia, initially a five-story book store, designed by Day and built in 1892
Franklin Field during the November 28, 1908 Army-Navy game, one of several University of Pennsylvania buildings designed by Day; in addition to the second Franklin Field, built in 1903 and demolished in 1922, Day designed Weightman Hall, built in 1903 and 1904 (upper left), and the current Franklin Field was designed in 1922 by Day's partner, Charles Zeller Klauder, who also added its upper deck in 1925.
American Baptist Publication Society, Philadelphia (1896–97).