Gates, (sculpture).

Gates, (sculpture).

Yellin, Samuel, 1885-1940, sculptor.

Meller, Meigs and Howe, architectural firm.

George A. Fuller Company, contractor.

Gates, (sculpture).

1923-1926. Installed ca. 1926.

Hand-wrought iron.

Approx. 15 ft. x 77 in. x 1 in.

Ornate gates for the bank entrance.

Architecture -- Detail -- Gate

Outdoor Sculpture -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Philadelphia Savings Fund Society, Mellon Bank, 15 South 52nd Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

For related reading see: "Sculpture of a City: Philadelphia's treasures in bronze and stone," NY: Walker Publishing Co., 1974; and Edward Teitelman's "Architecture in Philadelphia," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, c. 1974.

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia survey, 1994.

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