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Cope's Bridge carries the Strasburg Road over the east branch of the Brandywine. It as built by the County of Chester ca. 1805-1808 as a permanent replacement for an earlier wooden bridge that local residents had deemed unsafe for travel. By the fall of 1808, the bridge was completed at a cost of $26,911--over $350,000 in today's money.
The bridge features an 1807 datestone, cut by one Frederick Syfret; the original 1805 datestone cut for the bridge was later placed into the gable end of a neighboring house owned by a mason who worked upon the bridge.
Cope's bridge has undergone many repairs and renovations over its 203-year lifespan, and it has just finished its most thorough reconstruction to date, with major structural repairs and a new road surface and wingwalls added, as well as modifications to the streambed. This work will ensure that Cope's bridge continues to endure for another 200 years.
Though it's called the London Tract Meeting, it's not the Society of Friends, but the London Tract Primitive Baptist Meeting House. Same terminology, different denominations.
Thank you so much commenting! I'm always happy to hear from anybody who has memories of the buildings and places I've photographed. And it is indeed a lovely little house.
At least the reservoir plans never went through, it would have been a tragedy to drown the area and lose so much.
"To-night the memorial shaft on the Brandywine Battlefield will be completed and ready for the unveiling on Wednesday. Long has the hour been anticipated. Many have been the wishes expressed. Patient were the workers who pushed along with the project until now a great portion of their hopes has been realized. In its cocoon-like drapery the column will stand until Brandywine Day, when in the presence of the large concourse of citizens it will be formally unveiled by the French consul.
WHAT IT IS LIKE.
Hereafter travelers along the highway from the familiar old meeting house at Birmingham to "ye anciente Dilworthtowne," will see a few feet back from the road a terra cotta shaft fifteen feet in height resting on a base of four feet square. [...] While it marks the highest point of the field it will also indicate a locality about the centre of the fight, and not far distant from the spot where the gallant Lafayette was wounded. As it is on clear ground, it is visible from about every part of the compass.
LIKE THE COURT HOUSE COLUMNS.
The sides of the shaft are fluted like the columns of the Court House, and at the top is a section of Roman-Corinthian decoration, somewhat like that visible from High Street, but the acanthus leaves are used by other decorative work. On the top is a ball to symbolize completeness. About on third the way up is a wreath of laurel, which was intended to represent the manner in which the ancient Romans used to decorate their monuments on festive occasions, but this had to be conventionalized somewhat in order to leave no corners which could easily chip off. Not far above the the wreath is another band, on which thirteen stars are shown, indicative of the colonies which united in their support of the revolution against British tyranny.
When the first drawings were made, it was desired that the column be all in one piece, but the makers could not burn such a long piece in their kilns, and on this account it was made in pieces and will be put together on the grounds in such a way as not to show the joints.
TO LAST FOREVER.
Members of the committee have no doubt that the shaft will stand for countless ages unless destroyed by vandals or through accident, as terra cotta although a soft material, is impervious to the weather and will endure when stones and metal have crumbled or rusted away. The truth of this is proved by the clay tablets which were made in ancient Nineveh and Babylon and are still in existence.
[...]
TWO NEW FEATURES.
The Committee on Arrangements has added two interesting features. One of them is the reading of T. Buchanan Read's stirring poem, "The Fight at the Ford" by Miss Harriet Trapp, whose ability in this line is widely known. This poem includes a vivid description of the wounding of Lafayette. The other feature is the placing of a laurel wreath upon the shaft immediately after the dedication. The latter ceremony will be by the children of the public schools, while the hymn "America" is being played by the band and sung by the audience."
The Lafayette Apartments were erected by the Corcoran Construction Company early in 1911. The apartments originally consisted of three suites of rooms, handsomely furnished with all of the modern conveniences. One unusual feature of this apartment house are the green serpentine stone pillars supporting the porches.
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Great photo
Quite the deal in it's day, and now... a useless rusting hulk.
Wow...this sculpture used to be right outside Colburn Lab on the main campus. I guess they moved it up north to hide it.
Very nice, and alluring. I knew that area well. Swam in the Chester creek regularly circa 1970 just north of the Balto Pike at Wawa.
Cope's Bridge carries the Strasburg Road over the east branch of the Brandywine. It as built by the County of Chester ca. 1805-1808 as a permanent replacement for an earlier wooden bridge that local residents had deemed unsafe for travel. By the fall of 1808, the bridge was completed at a cost of $26,911--over $350,000 in today's money.
The bridge features an 1807 datestone, cut by one Frederick Syfret; the original 1805 datestone cut for the bridge was later placed into the gable end of a neighboring house owned by a mason who worked upon the bridge.
Cope's bridge has undergone many repairs and renovations over its 203-year lifespan, and it has just finished its most thorough reconstruction to date, with major structural repairs and a new road surface and wingwalls added, as well as modifications to the streambed. This work will ensure that Cope's bridge continues to endure for another 200 years.
Absolutely! Bicycling is how I found most of these places in the first place, so I fully endorse your using these as you see fit.
Though it's called the London Tract Meeting, it's not the Society of Friends, but the London Tract Primitive Baptist Meeting House. Same terminology, different denominations.
Thank you so much commenting! I'm always happy to hear from anybody who has memories of the buildings and places I've photographed. And it is indeed a lovely little house.
At least the reservoir plans never went through, it would have been a tragedy to drown the area and lose so much.
"To-night the memorial shaft on the Brandywine Battlefield will be completed and ready for the unveiling on Wednesday. Long has the hour been anticipated. Many have been the wishes expressed. Patient were the workers who pushed along with the project until now a great portion of their hopes has been realized. In its cocoon-like drapery the column will stand until Brandywine Day, when in the presence of the large concourse of citizens it will be formally unveiled by the French consul.
WHAT IT IS LIKE.
Hereafter travelers along the highway from the familiar old meeting house at Birmingham to "ye anciente Dilworthtowne," will see a few feet back from the road a terra cotta shaft fifteen feet in height resting on a base of four feet square. [...] While it marks the highest point of the field it will also indicate a locality about the centre of the fight, and not far distant from the spot where the gallant Lafayette was wounded. As it is on clear ground, it is visible from about every part of the compass.
LIKE THE COURT HOUSE COLUMNS.
The sides of the shaft are fluted like the columns of the Court House, and at the top is a section of Roman-Corinthian decoration, somewhat like that visible from High Street, but the acanthus leaves are used by other decorative work. On the top is a ball to symbolize completeness. About on third the way up is a wreath of laurel, which was intended to represent the manner in which the ancient Romans used to decorate their monuments on festive occasions, but this had to be conventionalized somewhat in order to leave no corners which could easily chip off. Not far above the the wreath is another band, on which thirteen stars are shown, indicative of the colonies which united in their support of the revolution against British tyranny.
When the first drawings were made, it was desired that the column be all in one piece, but the makers could not burn such a long piece in their kilns, and on this account it was made in pieces and will be put together on the grounds in such a way as not to show the joints.
TO LAST FOREVER.
Members of the committee have no doubt that the shaft will stand for countless ages unless destroyed by vandals or through accident, as terra cotta although a soft material, is impervious to the weather and will endure when stones and metal have crumbled or rusted away. The truth of this is proved by the clay tablets which were made in ancient Nineveh and Babylon and are still in existence.
[...]
TWO NEW FEATURES.
The Committee on Arrangements has added two interesting features. One of them is the reading of T. Buchanan Read's stirring poem, "The Fight at the Ford" by Miss Harriet Trapp, whose ability in this line is widely known. This poem includes a vivid description of the wounding of Lafayette. The other feature is the placing of a laurel wreath upon the shaft immediately after the dedication. The latter ceremony will be by the children of the public schools, while the hymn "America" is being played by the band and sung by the audience."
~Daily Local News, September, 1895.
The Lafayette Apartments were erected by the Corcoran Construction Company early in 1911. The apartments originally consisted of three suites of rooms, handsomely furnished with all of the modern conveniences. One unusual feature of this apartment house are the green serpentine stone pillars supporting the porches.