I was amused by two images that I recently found in the archives of the Library Company ofPhiladelphia. Readers of The E-Sylum should recognize the building on the left as the SecondPhiladelphia Mint. It was located at the northwest corner of Chestnut and Juniper with SouthPenn Square on the north. It was about a half-block east of Broad Street.

I was not familiar with the building on the right. It was built as the 7th Presbyterian Church at thesoutheast corner of Broad and South Penn Square. Its back was next to the Second Mint whichcan be seen at the left side of the image.

The Mint cornerstone was laid on July 4, 1829, and the building was ready for occupancy byJanuary 1833. Construction of the Third Mint was completed in 1901 and the Second Mint wasshortly demolished to be replaced by the Widener Building.

The church was built in 1842. The congregation was renamed The Tabernacle Church with theirlast meeting there in 1884. The church was replaced by the ornate Betz Building which was builtin 1892 and demolished in 1926.

Thus for fifty years there were two Grecian temples on the same block in Philadelphia. Did anydrunken patron ever wander into the wrong building?

I recognized the Second Building but not this specific image and I don't know where it was firstpublished. Can any E-Sylum reader identify the first place it was published?