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Leveraging Industrial Heritage in Waterfront Redevelopment
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Theses (Historic Preservation) Graduate Program in Historic Preservation 2010 From Dockyard to Esplanade: Leveraging Industrial Heritage in Waterfront Redevelopment Jayne O. Spector University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/hp_theses Part of the Historic Preservation and Conservation Commons Spector, Jayne O., "From Dockyard to Esplanade: Leveraging Industrial Heritage in Waterfront Redevelopment" (2010). Theses (Historic Preservation). 150. https://repository.upenn.edu/hp_theses/150 Suggested Citation: Spector, Jayne O. (2010). "From Dockyard to Esplanade: Leveraging Industrial Heritage in Waterfront Redevelopment." (Masters Thesis). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/hp_theses/150 For more information, please contact [email protected]. From Dockyard to Esplanade: Leveraging Industrial Heritage in Waterfront Redevelopment Abstract The outcomes of preserving and incorporating industrial building fabric and related infrastructure, such as railways, docks and cranes, in redeveloped waterfront sites have yet to be fully understood by planners, preservationists, public administrators or developers. Case studies of Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Philadelphia/ Camden, Dublin, Glasgow, examine the industrial history, redevelopment planning and approach to preservation and adaptive reuse in each locale. The effects of contested industrial histories, -
Treadle Powered Machines by Pat Ryan
NUMBER 183 MARCH 2016 A Journal of Tool Collecting published by CRAFTS of New Jersey I think just about Treadle Powered Machines around it. This turns a anyone that collects, uses By Pat Ryan wheel on the machine on or studies tools in any way the table above that powers will stop and take a closer look the machine. Most foot powered at a hand or foot powered ma- machines have a fly wheel. Notice chine when they come across I call them a fly wheel instead of a one. I find them very interesting, pulley. A fly wheel is heavy cast especially when one understands iron that once turning provides the workings involved in getting momentum for the machine to the machine to work properly. power through its cut. Of course Thus I find myself intrigued in many are powered by a different the history of the machine and method. For example, some of the the company that made it during fly wheels are powered by a rod or the early American Industrial bar that is pushed back and forth Revolution. to make it turn. Some have pad- Foot powered machines dles that are pumped up and down are commonly called “treadle such as W. C. Young and Seneca machines”. Treadle machine is Falls. Some companies like W. F. more of a generic term used for a & B. Barns used the velocipede or foot powered machine. Although bicycle peddles method to power many times they are “treadle”, Star treadle scroll saw by Miller Falls the fly wheel. Most hand powered many times they are not. -
4600 Disston Street and 6913 Ditman Street 19135
1. ADDRESS OF HISTORIC RESOURCE (must comply with an Office of Property Assessment address) Street address:__________________________4600 Disston Street and 6913 Ditman______________________ Street __________________ Postal code:_______________19135 2. NAME OF HISTORIC RESOURCE Historic Name:_______________Frank Shuman Home__________________________ and Laboratory _________________________ Current/Common Name:___________________________________________________________ 3. TYPE OF HISTORIC RESOURCE ✔ Building Structure Site Object 4. PROPERTY INFORMATION Condition: excellent good ✔ fair poor ruins Occupancy: ✔ occupied vacant under construction unknown Current use:____________________________________________________________________Multi-family residence (Home) and Contracting company office (Laboratory) 5. BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Please attach a narrative description and site/plot plan of the resource’s boundaries. 6. DESCRIPTION Please attach a narrative description and photographs of the resource’s physical appearance, site, setting, and surroundings. 7. SIGNIFICANCE Please attach a narrative Statement of Significance citing the Criteria for Designation the resource satisfies. Period of Significance (from year to year): from _________1895 to _________ 1918 Date(s) of construction and/or alteration:_Home________________________ (1895,1995, 1928) and_____________________ Laboratory (circa 1895) Architect, engineer, and/or designer:_________________________________________________ Builder, contractor, and/or artisan:___________________________________________________ -
Hans Brunner Tool Auctions April 6, 2013
Hans Brunner Tool Auctions April 6, 2013 PO Box 5238, Brassall Qld 4305 www.hansbrunnertools.gil.com.au 0421 234 645 Vol 24 featuring the collection of Dave Mills, Old Time Builder 1 1 Complete half set of 18 even Hollows & Rounds (2-18) by Marples. Also included are two sash planes numbered 1 &2 plus one of the first named OWT routers I’ve come across. No 12 R is a replacement from a different maker. G+ $ 200-400 2 3 3 Unmarked screw stem plough 2 Rare and early 8 ¾” ebony and plane, boxwood and beech with brass mortice gauge with heavy crisp edges and very good stem brass stock, adjustable from both threads. One of the outer nuts is ends i.e. front adjusts the pins, damaged. G $ 50-100 the back moves the fence. No markings but I’m pretty sure Fenton and Marsden held Reg 970 for this tool. Some minor age cracks, overall G/G + $70-140 4 4 17” beech badger plane with 2 ¼” skewed Ward cutter and dovetailed boxwood wear strip to side. Some bruising to handle and minor damage to boxing. No maker’s mark. G+ $ 60-120 Tool Sales 2013 in April, August & December - to subscribe to free catalogues please write or email. The low estimate is the reserve – I accept any amount on or over the reserve. Send in your bids anytime. Deadline is 12.00 noon on auction day. The highest offer wins. If identical bids are received on a lot the first one in is the winner with one dollar added to clear the bid. -
Philadelphia, Guide to the City
^^^'^y \/?»\^^ %. .^^^>:;^%^^^ .^> iV^ ^•- ^oV* .'. *Ao< V''X^'/V'^^V ''%j^\* 1 ^d^ : ^i 4°-^ *••«»** <b. •no' ^ ^ <^ PHILADELPHIA GUIDE TO THE CITY (Eighth Edition) Compiled by GEORGE eT ^ITZSCHE Recorder of the University of Pennsylvania and First Vice-President of the Philadelphia Rotary Club Issued by THE ROTARY CLUB OF PHILADELPHIA June, 1920 h/6"S -J" Copyright by GEORGE E. NITZSCHE June, 1920 .CU571778 *^ JUL 24 1920 \^ .c PREFACE. This little guide book to Philadelphia was prepared by the editor at the request of the Convention Committee of the Rotary Club. It is not an exhaustive treatise on Philadelphia, but is intended simply as a brief guide for visitors. To make a guide book of a city attractive reading is almost impossible, and to know what to include in a book of limited size is difficult. No two visitors have exactly the same tastes or interests. It is also difficult to classify properly the various points of interest; but it is believed that the classifications herein employed will be found as convenient as any. If some attractions have been given more or less space than they merit, or if anything has been omitted, the editor begs his readers to be indulgent. The real object of this preface is to create an opportunity to thank those who assisted the editor in gathering and com- piling this material. Among them he desires to acknowledge especially the courtesy and assistance of Geo. W. Janvier; the International Printing Co.; Jessie W. Clifton; Charles Fair- child; Elmer Schlichter; Frank H. Taylor; Wm. Rau, for many of the photographs herein reproduced; Jessie C. -
Subsistence, Butchery, and Commercialization in Knox County, Tennessee
University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Masters Theses Graduate School 12-2003 Subsistence, Butchery, and Commercialization in Knox County, Tennessee Rachel Jeannine Windham University of Tennessee - Knoxville Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes Part of the Anthropology Commons Recommended Citation Windham, Rachel Jeannine, "Subsistence, Butchery, and Commercialization in Knox County, Tennessee. " Master's Thesis, University of Tennessee, 2003. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/2334 This Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Theses by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a thesis written by Rachel Jeannine Windham entitled "Subsistence, Butchery, and Commercialization in Knox County, Tennessee." I have examined the final electronic copy of this thesis for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the equirr ements for the degree of Master of Arts, with a major in Anthropology. Walter E. Klippel, Major Professor We have read this thesis and recommend its acceptance: Charles Faulkner, Benita Howell Accepted for the Council: Carolyn R. Hodges Vice Provost and Dean of the Graduate School (Original signatures are on file with official studentecor r ds.) To the Graduate Council: I am submitting herewith a thesis written by Rachel Jeannine Windham entitled “Subsistence, Butchery, and Commercialization in Knox County, Tennessee.” I have examined the final electronic copy of this thesis for form and content and recommend that it be accepted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, with a major in Anthropology. -
Eden Hall: a Cultural Historic Landscape
University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Theses (Historic Preservation) Graduate Program in Historic Preservation 1998 Eden Hall: A Cultural Historic Landscape Benjamin Knute Haavik University of Pennsylvania Follow this and additional works at: https://repository.upenn.edu/hp_theses Part of the Historic Preservation and Conservation Commons Haavik, Benjamin Knute, "Eden Hall: A Cultural Historic Landscape" (1998). Theses (Historic Preservation). 285. https://repository.upenn.edu/hp_theses/285 Copyright note: Penn School of Design permits distribution and display of this student work by University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Suggested Citation: Haavik, Benjamin Knute (1998). Eden Hall: A Cultural Historic Landscape. (Masters Thesis). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. https://repository.upenn.edu/hp_theses/285 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Eden Hall: A Cultural Historic Landscape Disciplines Historic Preservation and Conservation Comments Copyright note: Penn School of Design permits distribution and display of this student work by University of Pennsylvania Libraries. Suggested Citation: Haavik, Benjamin Knute (1998). Eden Hall: A Cultural Historic Landscape. (Masters Thesis). University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA. This thesis or dissertation is available at ScholarlyCommons: https://repository.upenn.edu/hp_theses/285 m-^ iii mmmm- ^ ipii •ill pi mil m0M UNIVERSITY^ PENNSYLVANIA UBRARIES EDEN HALL: A CULTURAL HISTORIC LANDSCAPE Benjamin Knute Haavik A THESIS in Historic Preservation Presented to the Faculties of the University of Pennsylvania in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF SCIENCE 1998 Supervisor Reader^ Christa Wilmanns-Wells, Ph.D. AmyFreitag Lecturer, Historic Preservation Management and Development Admmistrator Fairmount Park Commission 4^ IMyvJA^ Graduate Group Chair Frank G. -
Frankford / Bridesburg / Wissinoming / Tacony
HISTORIC CONTEXT STATEMENT CLUSTER 1: FRANKFORD, TACONY, WISSINOMING, BRIDESBURG PREPARED BY EMILY T. COOPERMAN, PHD FOR THE PRESERVATION ALLIANCE FOR GREATER PHILADELPHIA JULY 2009 ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH AND CULTURAL HISTORY HISTORIC PRESERVATION CONSULTING HISTORIC CONTEXT STATEMENT FOR NEIGHBORHOOD CLUSTER 1 PHILADELPHIA PRESERVATION PLAN PHASE 1 2008-2009 INTRODUCTION HISTORIC CONTEXT STATEMENT FOR NEIGHBORHOOD CLUSTER 1 FRANKFORD, TACONY, WISSINOMING AND BRIDESBURG: INDUSTRIAL VILLAGES OF THE UPPER DELAWARE RIVER WATERFRONT EDITED, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY EMILY T. COOPERMAN, PH.D. Cluster 1 consists of a group of neighborhoods closely connected to the Delaware River and the smaller waterways that formerly fed into it (Frankford Creek and its tributaries as well as Wissininoming Creek) in a portion of the city that was accessed mainly by boat and a single roadway in the first century of Philadelphia’s settlement. Like many other areas of the city, the neighborhoods of Cluster 1 were developed to a great extent because of the industries that were founded there, and their fortunes have risen and fallen with the city’s industrial growth and subsequent decay. Frankford was one of the earliest settled villages in the former Philadelphia County. Bridesburg was built on flat land made habitable by fill and bulwark along the riverfront. The land in Wissinoming and Tacony was characterized by country seats and farms until past the mid-nineteenth century when Henry Disston moved his Saw Works from Northern Liberties to land that had not yet been developed except for agriculture use. In the twentieth century, these neighborhoods became more closely connected to Center City through the completion of the Frankford Elevated subway in 1915. -
Historic-District-Disston-Tacony.Pdf
1. NAME OF HISTORIC DISTRICT (CURRENT/HISTORIC) ______________________________________________________________________The Disston-Tacony Industrial Waterfront Historic District 2. LOCATION Please attach a map of Philadelphia locating the historic district. Councilmanic District(s):_______________6th 3. BOUNDARY DESCRIPTION Please attach a written description and map of the district boundaries. 4. DESCRIPTION Please attach a written description and photographs of the built and natural environments/ characteristic streetscape of the district. 5. INVENTORY Please attach an inventory of the district with an entry for every property. All street addresses must coincide with official Office of Property Assessment addresses. Total number of properties in district:_______________3DUFHOV 23$DFFRXQWV UHVRXUFHVLQLQYHQWRU\ Count buildings with multiple units as one. Number of properties already on Register/percentage of total:__0 ______/________0% Number of significant properties/percentage of total:__________13 __/____________31% Number of contributing properties/percentage of total:_________21 __/____________45% Number of non-contributing properties/percentage of total:_____11 __/____________24% 6. SIGNIFICANCE Please attach a narrative Statement of Significance citing the Criteria for Designation the resource satisfies. Period of Significance (from year to year): from _________1872 to _ 1955________ CRITERIA FOR DESIGNATION: The historic district satisfies the following criteria for designation (check all that apply): ✔ (a) Has significant character, -
Disston Lumberman Handbook
R EG. 0 8. P A T. O f f . DISST ON Lu mbe rman Han dbo o k CONTAI NING A TR EATIS E ON THE CONS TR UCTION OF S A W S AND HOW TO KEEP P HEM R R R IN O DE . TOGETHE WITH OTH ER IN FORMATIO N OF KINDRED CHARACTER . ’ ' ‘ Entered accor in to A ct of Con re s s in the e ar 1907 b HENR Y DISSAON dz SONS In c or ora ted . d g g , y , y , p In th f f e L i a a o f n s s at W as hin on D C . e Of ic e o th b r ri n Co re t . g , g , HE N RY D IS S T O N 6 S O N S INCOR P ORATED an? l k Ke y sto n e S aw , T o o l , Ste e l Fi e Wo r s H P U S . A . H O LLS . O O CHICAG . I CINCINNATI . HI S L W S O OS O M SS EATT E . A HINGT N B T N . A . W L S A . M MP NE O R L S . EAN . E HI . TENN S A N FR C S O C A L . P OR L O R O AN I C . T AND , EG N V OUV R B . C . ORON O ANC E . T T . CANADA J A N UA R Y 1 17 , 9 X IND E . P A G E 93 m ri a D e n A n vils A e c n S w Co . -
Chronicle Subject Index
Index A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z A Abbeyhorn Co., 54:3 112–113 Abel, William H., 55:1 8 "Abe L. Adams Art Auger, The" (Price), 45:1 3–4 Abel and Byvanck, 46:1 27 "Abel Sampson: Maine Privateer Turned Planemaker" (Butterworth and Blumenberg), 45:2 35–37 Aber, James (Jim), 45:2 45, 56:4 173 Aber, Jim, 37:4 68 "Abercrombie & Fitch Axe" (Klenman), 52:1 38 Abercrombie & Fitch promotional axe, 52:1 38 Aberdeen, Scotland granite industry, 60:1 16, 60:1 23 immigrants from, 60:1 23 Aberdeen Gin Factory and Machine Shop, 52:1 16 Abishai Way & Co., 43:3 80 "About Our Back Cover." See "Our Back Cover" "About Our Front Cover." See "Our Front Cover" "About the Picture Puzzle," 39:2 31 Abraham, Peter, 49:3 74 Abrams, George screwdriver patent, 45:4 109 Abrasive Products Co., 53:1 32 abrasives for granite, 59:4 130, 59:4 135, 59:4 147 ground flint, 48:1 33 abrasive sheets inventory lists, 39:3 44 abutments for covered bridges, 46:4 114 Académie Royale des Sciences, 58:1 37 Academy of Armory, The, or A Storehouse of Armory and Blazon (Holme), 37:4 61, 52:3 110–111, 53:3 96 "Accident on Lombard Street" (Peale), 61:3 94, 61:3 96 account books blacksmiths, 42:2 47–49, 44:1 26–27, 44:4 122–123, 45:2 52 Blake, Josiah, 55:1 27–30 boat equipment, 43:4 101–102 Burton, Silas, 56:1 11 chairmaking, 44:4 114–115 Columbia (bark), 42:1 22–24, 42:4 101–102 coopers, 42:1 19–21 Danner, Daniel, 47:1 15–26 distribution of raw materials and manufactured goods, 46:2 49–50 Doggett, Simeon, 48:3 40–41 -
En .. Pttlla / 73~
DISSTON HOUSE HABS No. PA-6669 (Unity Mission Church Home & Training School) 1530 North Sixteenth Street Philadelphia Hites Philadelphia County PA Pennsylvania en .. PttlLA / 73~- . WRITTEN HISTORICAL & DESCRIPTIVE DATA REDUCED COPIES OF MEASURED DRAWINGS PHOTOGRAPHS HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY National Park Service U.S. Department oflnterior 1845 C Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20240 I HASS Pf\ HISTORIC AMERICAN BUILDINGS SURVEY 51- f'HILA- 73r:r;._ / DISSTON HOUSE (Unity Mission Church Home and Training School) HABS No. PA-6669 Location: 1530 N. Sixteenth Street, west side between Jefferson and Oxford streets, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Present Owner/ Unity Mission Church Home and Training School, Inc. Occupant: Present Use: Maintained for organizational use. Significance: The Disston House is a virtually intact late-Victorian mansion constructed in North Philadelphia. It is one of the few surviving mansions built for the city's industrial and professional elite in this vicinity and is a contributing property to the North Broad Street Mansion Historic District. Other mansions built by Disston family members have been demolished or extensively altered, and the Disston House remains a singular testament to one of Philadelphia's premier manufacturing fortunes. Its expansive, yet logically conceived rectilinear plan-with rooms arranged around a central corridor-provided all of the specialized spaces necessary for a late-nineteenth century family with high social aspirations. The house is one of only a few residences designed by Edwin F. Durang, a prolific architect of Roman Catholic churches and schools. The relative restraint of its Italianate facade and exterior detailing gives no hint to the deeply complex and sumptuous interior appointments, some of only a handful still surviving that are attributed to George Herzog.