The Perfect Square: A History of Rittenhouse Square

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 Bibliography A NOTE ABOUT SOURCES The three best sources on the early history of Rittenhouse Square are Rittenhouse Square Past and Present, by Charles J. Cohen, who chronicled the Square’s residents from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; The Story of Rittenhouse Square 1682–1951, by Marion Willis Martin Rivinus, a small but very useful book; and Historic Rittenhouse: A Philadelphia Neighborhood, by Bobbye Burke, Otto Speer, and Hugh McCauley. Valuable institutional sources include Philadelphia City Archives, Fairmount Park Archives, and City Council records, as well as records and minutes of the Art Jury, the Fairmount Park Commission , and the Fairmount Art Association. At the Urban Archives of Temple University, I read the papers and minutes of the Center City Residents Association (CCRA) and the Rittenhouse Square Flower Market. The Paul Cret papers at the Athenaeum and the University of Pennsylvania were an invaluable source for understanding the interaction of the architect and the patrons of the 1913 improvements to the Square. Other valuable institutional sources include the Philadelphia College of Physicians (a fount of information on the cholera epidemic of 1832); the archives of St. Patrick’s Church; and the Methodist archives (a primary source of information about people who, though they were not deemed newsworthy in their day, were of importance in the history of the Square). Many newspaper accounts from the 1830s through the 1900s, some undated, found in scrapbooks and archival files, were valuable in fleshing out the lives of early residents and understanding their social structure. So too were not only many diaries of the period, including those of Sidney George Fisher, Joseph Sill, George Fahnestock, and Thomas P. Cope, but also the scrapbooks of J. William White and Charles Cohen. Papers of the Ingersoll, Drexel, Lippincott, Harrison, Brinton , and Divine families provided insight into family dynamics. Land deeds and tax and insurance records, city directories and maps, the Philadelphia Blue Book, and the Philadelphia Social Registry were also useful in tracing the lives of many inhabitants of the Square. The memoirs of Agnes Repplier, Ethel Barrymore, Constance O’Hara, Cordelia Drexel Biddle , and George W. Pepper were crucial to understanding the workings of the educational system Bibliography [ 192 and what it was like to grow up in the late nineteenth century. Much of my information on the late twentieth century was gleaned from newspapers, records of real estate transactions, and the personal recollections of residents. BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND PAPERS Albright, Raymond W. Focus on Infinity: A Life of Phillips Brooks. New York: Macmillan, 1961. Allen, Alexander V. G. Life and Letters of Phillips Brooks. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1901. Allen, William. Map of Philadelphia, 1838. Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Aspinwall, Marguerite. A Hundred Years in His House: The Story of the Church of the Holy Trinity on Rittenhouse Square Philadelphia, 1857–1957. Philadelphia: Marguerite Aspinwall, 1956. Bache, Richard Meade. Life of General George Gordon Meade. Philadelphia: Henry T. Coates, 1897. Baltzell, E. Digby. Philadelphia Gentlemen: The Making of a National Upper Class. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1958. Bancroft, Charles. “A Century of Promenades.” Philadelphia Inquirer, April 1, 1907, quoted in Center City Philadelphia, February 1967. Bell, John D., and Francis Condie. All Material Facts in the History of Epidemic Cholera. Philadelphia , 1832. Bendiner, Alfred. Bendiner’s Philadelphia. New York: A. S. Barnes, 1964. Benson, Adolph B. The America of 1750: Peter Kalm’s Travels in North America (the English Version of 1770). New York: Eilson-Erickson, 1937. Biddle, Cordelia Drexel. My Philadelphia Father. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1955. Biddle, Francis. A Casual Past. New York: Doubleday, 1961. Bleznak, Sally. “A Brief History of a Small City Park: Rittenhouse Square.” Unpublished paper, December 14, 1976. Bowen, Daniel. A History of Philadelphia, with a Notice of Villages, in the Vicinity. Philadelphia: Daniel Bowen, 1839. Bregman, Lillian. “Rittenhouse Square: The City’s Back Yard Is Back.”’ Philadelphia magazine (July 1989): 77. Brinton, Mary Williams, Their Lives and Mine. Philadelphia: Mary Brinton, 1972. Brookhouser, Frank. Our Philadelphia. New York: Doubleday, 1957. Bullitt, William C. It’s Not Done. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1926. Burke, Bobbye, Otto Sperr, and Hugh McCauley. Historic Rittenhouse: A Philadelphia Neighborhood . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1985. Burt, Nathaniel. The Perennial Philadelphians. Boston: Little Brown, 1963. Campbell, William E. How Unsearchable His Ways: One Hundred Twenty-fifth Anniversary, Saint Patrick’s Church. Philadelphia: Campbell, 1965. Bibliography [ 193 A Century of Faith. Philadelphia: Parish of St. Patrick, 1939. The Cholera Gazette. Philadelphia: Carey, Lea, and Blanchard, 1833. Cholera Record. Scrapbook...