Exterior view showing the four-story Gothic-style hall built 1853-1855 after the designs of Sloan & Stewart at 713-721 Chestnut Street. A small portion of the adjacent Washington House hotel signboard is visible (right). On the sidewalk, eleven pedestrians (men wearing top hats and canes, women with parasols, and a child wearing a wide-brimmed hat) greet one another, converse, stroll, and admire the building. Hall building sold circa 1873 following the completion of the new Masonic Temple on North Broad Street.