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GRAFF, Frederick. Untitled manuscript plan of Ce

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[Philadelphia: c. 1800; with additions to 1827]. Pen-and-ink, graphite and watercolor on laid paper (377 x 540 mm). Scale along the right margin. Condition: several tears with cellotape staining. Provenance: Frederick Graff (blindstamp in the image). an original plan of the area for latrobe's pumping station -- the present day location of city hall. The intersection of Broad and High (i.e. Market) Streets was one of the five original public spaces intended by William Penn. With Latrobe's plan to construct a system of steam pumping stations and wooden pipes approved in January 1799, he began, with the assistance of his chief engineer Frederick Graff, the construction of the pumping station at Centre Square. By all appearances, this plan dates from that period and includes street names and distances between points. Graff has added other distances, as well as several annotations at later dates, including the location of the 1814 Market House on Broad Street, the location of a gambling house, a smith shop, the addition of William Rush's fountain erected in 1809, the location of the body of Mathew Henderson ("body found murdered by Lucket an English officer Jan 10 / 1813") and with a note in the lower margin stating "The building [i.e. the pumping station] was taken down in 1827." See Stapleton, The Engineering Drawings of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (New Haven: 1980) plates 39-54 for other plans of the Centre Square engine house by both Latrobe and Graff.

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