The couple spent two months traveling on their honeymoon in early 1897 while the Locust Street house was being completed. Scott their combined fortunes were substantial. Moore’s wife, the former Mary Scott, right, was the socialite daughter of the President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, Thomas A. Newbold, left, was planning a city home for himself and his young bride to complement their Jenkintown estate, he would hire architect Frank Miles Day, who had worked with Eyre, to build an immense townhouse on the double lot at 1313-1315 Locust Street next to the Leidy residence. When wealthy banker and financier Clement B. Moore and the brilliant paleontologist Joseph Leidy, who was called “the last man who knew everything.” Locust Street was going upscale and highbrow. It was appropriate that Eyre designed two buildings in this intellectual neighborhood for archaeologist and writer Clarence B. Directly across the street from the Library, where the Sylvania is today was the Episcopal Academy. Both the church and the next few rowhouses beyond it to the right were torn down around 1894 for two elegant new urban residences, below, designed by Wilson Eyre Jr.īy the 1890s, the Historical Society had already moved onto the corner of 13th and Locust, the College of Physicians was diagonally across from that and the Library Company was in the building mentioned above at Locust and Juniper. In the center was the Universalist Church of the Messiah, designed by Thomas Ustick Walter, the Philadelphia architect famous for designing the dome of the Capitol Building in Washington D.C. In its place now stands the dingy four level parking garage next to Mamma Angelina’s pizzeria. The building on the left, on the northwest corner, was a wonderful Frank Furness designed Library Company building, razed in the late 1930s, a victim of the Great Depression. This is the northeast corner of Locust and Juniper Streets, looking east. It would be hard to identify the location of the 1885 photograph, above, on today’s Locust Street, since every one of the buildings in the photo is now gone. THE 19th CENTURY GENTRIFICATION OF LOCUST STREET This time it’s the E-Z Park lot at 1311-1315 Locust Street, in the center of the block, across from the Library Company. It’s time again to explore one of those holes in the fabric of the Gayborhood.