[TheForge] Yellin work in Philadelphia?
Andrew Vida
osan at netlabs.net
Wed Jul 23 15:36:16 EDT 2008
I suspect that the fencing and gates of the Penn law school are also
Yellin's. There is a door knocker in center city, but I cannot recall
on what street... jeez, leave a place for a year and forget everything.
Sheesh.
-Andy
Woolley wrote:
> Hi,
> Off the top of my head, 18th and Locust or so( east of Rittenhouse
> Square) door hardware on Holy Trinity Episcopal Church (red doors on
> Locust). Big old gate at 15th and Chestnut, painted many times but
> still nice. Good luck wowing the family. Also, gates at University
> Museum across from Franklin Field in west Phila (Penn campus) Spruce St
> although you would pass over South St bridge from center city which puts
> you on Spruce (go figure). There are also several early Albert Paley
> window guards on the 100 block of Lombard St (just east of Headhouse
> Sq.) Repeated design. And a nice gate of his on (I think) 100 block of
> Delancey St. in the same neighborhood. Some Chris Ray stuff in that
> vicinity too.
>
> Regards,
> Bill Woolley
>
>
>
>
> Marc Godbout wrote:
>> We're visiting our son in PA next month and spending the day in
>> Philadelphia. I'm the only real metalhead in the family, so we can't
>> spend the day looking at the great ironwork there. But are there some
>> good examples of Yellin's work I could probably steer towards? Or
>> really any great work or works that might get more than an "Oh that's
>> nice" out of the family?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> --Marc
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