Naval Square, Philadelphia
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Naval Square is a gated community within the Graduate Hospital neighborhood of Philadelphia that served as the first United States Naval Academy from 1838 to 1845, when the Naval Academy formed in Ann
The Naval Square gated neighborhood behind wall on Grays Ferry Avenue
Naval Asylum Building
Bainbridge Street outside view of Naval Square gated community
U S Naval Asylum 1838, John Caspar Wild,
William Strickland was a noted American architect and civil engineer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Nashville, Tennessee. A student of Benjamin Latrobe and mentor to Thomas Ustick Walter, Strickla
Naval Square, Philadelphia
…ranged from $300,000 to $900,000, with 618 units built. Set on more than 20 acres (8.1 ha), the campus includes three buildings designed by architect William Strickland that are considered some of the best examples of Greek Revival architecture in the United States: Biddle Hall (the 1833 main building), the surgeon's…
1829 portrait of Strickland by John Neagle
Second Bank of the United States, Philadelphia (1819-24)
Merchants' Exchange, Philadelphia (1832-34)
Tennessee State Capitol, Nashville (1845-59). Strickland is buried in a crypt within.