Pennsylvania Street looking north from Washington Street, Indianapolis, Indiana, circa 1857

Description:	View looking north on North Pennsylvania Street from an upper window of the Metropolitan Daguerreian Gallery in College Hall, a building on the southwest corner of Washington and Pennsylvania Streets. Visible in the lower left is a building housing the Gott and Featherston auction house, located at 48 and 49 East Washington Street in the 1858-1859 Indianapolis City Directory. North of the Frederick Foltz house on the right is a lot recently cleared of the old Foltz wagon shop and Markham blacksmith shop to make way for the Federal Post Office and Courthouse, begun in September 1857 on the southeast corner of Pennsylvania and Market Streets. Stacks of bricks are piled on the street.The church is Roberts Chapel (later renamed Roberts Park Methodist Church), at this site until 1868. This image postdates June 1857 when the town clock was placed in the bell tower of Roberts Chapel. In the distance to the left is the Indiana School for the Blind.Whereabouts of the original daguerreotype is unknown. Copy photo made by William H. Bass Photo Company, Indianapolis, negative 17804.
Origin:	1857, circa
Source:	http://indianaalbum.pastperfectonline.com/photo/342FD776-E6CD-4D1A-9827-707352031777
Collection:	Indiana Album
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Geography:	Pennsylvania Street, Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, United States
Subjects:	Joan Hostetler Collection Street scenes Daguerreotypes Methodist churches Indianapolis (Ind.) Marion County (Ind.)

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