President's House was a mansion built in Philadelphia to house the President of the United States. Philadelphia served as the temporary national capital, 1790-1800, while what is now Washington, D.C.
The House intended for the President of the United States, in Ninth Street Philadelphia, by W. Birch & Son (1799)
Engraving of the early campus of the University of Pennsylvania (c.1815). At left, is the first medical school building.
Medical School in 1872, the year Penn's campus moved to West Philadelphia
William Birch (painter)
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William Russell Birch was an English miniature painter, enameler, and landscape engraver and designer.
Benjamin Henry Latrobe's Bank of Pennsylvania, from the 4th edition of William Birch's Views of Philadelphia, 1827–1828
Library and Surgeon's Hall, an 1800 engraving by Birch of the Library Company of Philadelphia, the first American library founded by Benjamin Franklin