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Excerpt from Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 1: Held at Philadelphia, for Promoting Useful Knowledge
This building is situated in the centre of a circular area of 520 feet in diameter, at the intersection of Market and Broad Streets, the first running east and west, 100 feet in width; the second north and south, 113 feet in breadth, so that the view towards the four cardinal points is not intercepted. It is erected on a ground plan of 60 feet square, on which is a basement story 21 feet in height, having porticos on the east and west fronts; from this basement, as a pedestal, rises a circular building or rotunda, 40 feet in diameter and 59 feet in height, pierced with sixteen windows and sur mounted by a dome. This building was originally constructed to contain machinery for the introduction of water into the City, but late arrangements adopted for this purpose, have rendered this application of it unnecessary. It was designed by Mr. Latrobe, and built entirely of Pennsylvania marble. It is believed that it may be made very suitable for the object for which it is now appropriated, and the Society are at present occupied in making the necessary arrangements for this effect.
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