Modern Gothic cabinet
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Modern Gothic exhibition cabinet is a piece of Modern Gothic furniture now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Although its design was once attributed to Philadelphia architect Frank
The shelf's reverse-painted glass tiles are backed with reflective foil.
Pabst seems to have based the cabinet's compressed and banded columns on Furness's columns and oversized capitals at PAFA.
Modern Gothic Cabinet (c.1877-80), Gallery 746, American Wing, MMA
G. W. & W. D. Hewitt
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G. W. & W. D. Hewitt was a prominent architectural firm in the eastern United States at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. It was founded in Philadelphia in 1878, by brothers Geo
The Bellevue-Stratford Hotel at 220 South Broad Street in Philadelphia (1902-04), photographed in 1976
St. Peter's Episcopal Church of Germantown in the Germantown section of Philadelphia, 1873
Houston-Sauveur House in Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, PA (1885). Prior to its 1887 sale to Sauveur, this probably served as a sample house for Henry H. Houston's suburban development
The Philadelphia Bourse Building (1893-95) housed a commodities exchange until the 1960s, and is now used for retail and offices