 |
|
Philadelphias Floating Architecture
Floating Church of the Redeemer, Philadelphia, 1847 Lieb House, 13th March 2009 Ok, so the Lieb House was in New Jersey, but at least its conception was Philly-centric. Today, the Venturi and Rauch designed house sailed under the Brooklyn Bridge on its journey to Long Island, waved on from South Street Seaport in the early morning by its architect and a gang of onlookers assembled by Storefront. In a strange coincidence, on a recent trip to Philly to meet with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown - which included a road trip to see the Lieb House in its original location - I was idling in a bookshop and stumbled across a precedent for Philadelphias floating architecture in the shape of the Floating Church of the Redeemer. This, on the floating church from Plan Philly: "Moored off Dock Street from 1847-1851.This mobile house of worship was built in Bordentown NJ in 1847, and towed to Philadelphia's bustling Dock Street wharf. Believed to be the first floating church on the East Coast (predating a similar church in New York by three years), The Floating Church of the Redeemer was a project of the Churchman's Missionary Association for Seamen, an arm of the Episcopal Church, and was devoted to serving sailors. The church left Philadelphia in 1851, when its pier was leased for more worldly purposes. Towed to Camden, it was hauled ashore and dragged on rollers to the corner of Broadway and Rayden Streets where it served a small congregation under the name St. John's. The land-locked river-church was consumed by fire on Christmas morning several years later."
Posted by anothersam at March 13, 2009 11:03 PM.
FAT
Sam Jacob
IconEye
Archinect
Flip Flop Flyin'
Arts & Letters
Bldg Blog
City of Sound
Design Observer
Limited Language
Mcsweeneys
Things
Dezeen
Kieran Long
Arts Monitor
Loud Paper
Dwell Blog
David Barrie
Super Colossal
sit down man, you're a bloody tragedy
The Sesquipedalist
Londonist
Architecture & Hygiene
Pruned
Infosthetics
Aggregat456
A456Tumblr
Kazys Varnelis
Infranet Lab
Life Without Buildings
Landscape & Urbanism
HTC Experiments
Deputy Dog
Subtopia
The Dirt
Mockitecutre
Art Fag City
Triple Canopy
Where
Actar
Mechanophilia
Shrapnel
NL Blog
Leave a comment