Lombard Street

Lombard, the first street north of South Street, was not one of Penn's original east-west streets, but began about 1740 as an alley, cutting through the large block between Pine and South Streets. It was named for the Lombard Street in London, which was in turn derived from the Lombard moneylenders that occupied it during the Renaissance.cite

The 1762 Clarkson-Biddle map shows Lombard as ending at 4th Street; the 1788 John Hills map of Southwark shows Lombard extending river-to-river (i.e. having extended east of Front Street as well). White's 1785 directory gives an occupant of Lombard between 4th and 5th, and of the corner of Lombard and 5th Streets, but it is not clear when between 1762 and 1785 Lombard was pushed westward from 4th to 5th Streets.

CORNER OF LOMBARD AND WATER

CORNER OF LOMBARD AND FRONT

(1785) #334, Blackstone, Priestley (obviously one of the two northern corners of the intersection, by the number)
(1785) Blackstone, Preistly, cordwainer, corner of Lombard and Front

The 1830 directory, in which the same numbering system was in place, gives the following numbers for this corner:

#1 Lombard, northwestern corner
#2 Lombard, southwestern corner

BETWEEN FRONT AND 2ND, SOUTH SIDE

The listings for #1, #3, #4 and #6 are only on this block by implication, because Lombard extended eastward from Front to Water Street only as an alley, according to the 1788 map cited above.

(1785) #1, Woods, John, shopkeeper
(1785) #3, Woods, John
(1785) #4, McMullen, William
(1785) #6, Chaplaine, George

(1785) #9, McMullen, Mr.
(1785) Mullan, James, shopkeeper, Lombard between Front and 2nd
(1791) #14 Lombard St., Mullen, Ann, gentlewoman
This alignment is pretty much a guess, since #14 is the first one listed on this side of the street.

(1785) #10, Lyon, William

(1785) #11, Bankson, Jacob
(1785) Bankson, Jacob, Esq., counsellor at law, Lombard between Front and 2nd

BETWEEN FRONT AND 2ND, NORTH SIDE

The first five listings were probably, but not definitely, located between Front and 2nd, based on the proximity of numbers and the number of numbered houses which could fit on a block, but some could have been located between 2nd and 3rd Streets:

(1785) #310, Hooper, John
(1791) #43 Lombard St., Cabe, Thomas

(1785) #311, McKay, George
(1791) #41 Lombard St., Armitage, Mary, shopkeeper

(1785) #314, Angus, John
(1791) #33 Lombard St., Smith, Daniel, merchant

(1785) #316, Robinson, Hugh
(1791) #31 Lombard St., McCalla, David, taylor

(1785) #318, Musgrove, Aaron
(1791) #29 Lombard St., Brittle, Adam, tax collector
(1791) #29 Lombard St., Clayton, Thomas, livery stable

(1785) #319, Wharton, Widow
(1785) Wharton, Hannah, gentlewoman, Lombard between Front and 2nd
(1791) #27 Lombard St., Wharton, Hannah, gentlewoman

(1785) #321, Wharton, Elisabeth
(1785) Wharton, Elizabeth, gentlewoman, Lombard between Front and 2nd
(1791) #25 Lombard St., Wharton, Elizabeth, gentlewoman

(1785) #322, Lepass, Widow
(1791) #23 Lombard St., Gamble, James, sea captain

(1785) #325, Carver, Robert
(1785) Cather, Mrs., gentlewoman, Lombard between Front and 2nd
(1791) #17 Lombard St., Cather, Martha, boardinghouse
(1791) #17 Lombard St., Hood, Mary
White's listing for Mrs. Cather was formerly in the "Unknown Side" section, but is now placed here based on the 1791 information. This is on slightly thin ice, since it assumes she did not move between 1785 and 1791, but the fact that White listed her on this block in 1785 and Biddle listed her as running a boardinghouse in 1791, suggests that either this Robert Carver was actually Robert Cather and some relative of Martha, or that he was a 1785 guest or employee in the boardinghouse who happened to answer the door when MacPherson or his assistant came by.

(1785) #326, Wharton, William
(1785) Wharton, William, merchant, Lombard between Front and 2nd

(1791) #15 Lombard St., Wharton, William, gentleman

(1785) #327, Palmer, John
(1785) Palmer, John, brickmaker, Lombard between Front and 2nd

(1791) #13 Lombard St., Palmer, John, bricklayer

(1785) #328, Lyons, Philip, sea captain
(1785) Lyons, Philip, captain, Lombard between Front and 2nd

(1791) #11 Lombard St., Pritchell, William, cooper

(1785) #329, vacant or residents would not give name (by implication)
(1791) #9 Lombard St., Shubart, Jacob, blacksmith

(1785) #332, Thompson, Lydia (by implication; even if #334 (Priestly Blackstone) at the corner of Lombard and Front was on the northeast corner, the left-vacant #333 would probably have been assigned to the northwestern corner. This is not certain, however; the two southern corners of Lombard and 2nd were numbered #12 and #14 in 1785.
(1791) #3 Lombard St., Lesher, George, coach maker

BETWEEN FRONT AND 2ND, UNKNOWN SIDE

(1785) Baker, Francis, baker, Lombard between Front and 2nd
(1785) Carstairs, Thomas, house carpenter, Lombard between Front and 2nd

CORNER OF LOMBARD AND 2ND

(1785) #12, Maffat, Robert
(1785) Moffet, Robert, sign Jolly Sailor, corner of Lombard and 2nd
(1791) #16 Lombard St., Lisle, Margaret, gentlewoman

(1785) #14, McCutcheon, James
(1785) McCutcheon, James, innkeeper, sign Fountain, corner of Lombard and 2nd
(1791) #18 Lombard St., Moore, James, keeper of a livery stable

(1785) Dick, Campbell, shopkeeper, corner of Lombard and 2nd

According to Rum Punch and Revolution by Peter Thompson, the Pennsylvania Farmer tavern was located on this corner; it may have been on the southwestern corner where the Fountain was in 1785. (p.146)

The 1830 directory, in which the same numbering system was in place, gives the following numbers for this corner:

#222 S. 2nd, southwestern corner
#25 Lombard, northwestern corner
#225 S. 2nd, southeastern corner
#223 S. 2nd, northeastern corner

BETWEEN 2ND AND 3RD, SOUTH SIDE

(1785) #16, vacant or residents would not give name (in this block by implication; James McCutcheon of #14 occupied the easternmost property of the south side of this block)
(1791) #22 Lombard St., Kennedy, Maurice, accomptant

(1785) #17, vacant or residents would not give name
(1791) #24 Lombard St., Armstrong, Thomas, Esq., attorney at law

(1785) #18, King, John, house carpenter
(1791) #26 Lombard St., King, John, carpenter

(1785) #20, Pettis, Mr.
(1791) #28 Lombard St., no listing

(1785) #21, Saunders, John

(1785) #24, Dunn, Patrick
(1785) Dunn, Patrick, soap boiler, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
(1791) #30 Lombard St., Dunn, Patrick, labourer
(1791) #30 Lombard St., Blade, James
(1791) #30 Lombard St., Parker, John

(1785) #26, no listing
(1791) #44 Lombard St., Parker, Rebecca, gentlewoman

(1785) #27, Marker, Frederick, taylor
(1785) Marker, Henry, taylor, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
The correct alignment of the profession, the last name, and the street and block, make it possible that these two entries referred to the same man. Examples can be found of what can only be relatives living on the same block, though, and professions often ran in families, so this is not certain.
(1791) #46 Lombard St., Hamble, Archibald, tallowchandler

(1785) #28, Humphreys, William W.
(1785) Humphreys, William, captain, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
(1791) #48 Lombard St., Watson, Thomas, grocer

(1785) #29, Harrington, Hannah
(1785) Harrington, Hannah, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
(1791) #50 Lombard St., Matson, Robert, mariner

(1785) #30, Guy, John
(1791) #52 Lombard St., Guy, John, carter

(1785) #31, Peel, James
(1785) Peal, James, limner and painter, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
He had moved a couple blocks westward by 1791.
(1791) #54 Lombard St., Hamilton, Mary, gentlewoman
(1791) #54 Lombard St., Sillock, John

(1785) #32, McKeever, Alexander
(1791) #56 Lombard St., McKee, Mrs., gentlewoman

(1785) #33, Farnaur, Joseph
(1791) #58 Lombard St., Finure, Joseph, tinman

(1785) #34, Downs, Robert
(1791) #60 Lombard St., no listing

BETWEEN 2ND AND 3RD, NORTH SIDE

(1785) #290, Huckle, William
(1785) Huckle, William, taylor, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
(1791) #71 Lombard St., Waring, Matthew, porter

(1785) #291, vacant or residents would not give name

(1785) #292, Foster, Joseph
(1785) Foster, Joseph, house carpenter, Lombard between 3rd and 4th
(1791) #69 Lombard St., Battin, John, porter

(1785) #293, Carson, Joseph
(1785) Carson, Joseph, shopkeeper, Lombard between 3rd and 4th
Carson and Joseph Foster, just above, are probably another example of White having gotten the block wrong for two neighbors.
(1791) #67 Lombard St., Cassin, Joseph, constable

(1785) #294, Fousset, Richard
(1791) #65 Lombard St., Baker, William

(1785) #295, vacant or residents would not give name

(1785) #296, Plunket, Alexander
(1791) #63 Lombard St., Conyngham, Gustavus, sea captain

(1785) #297, Rodman, Gilbert

(1785) #300, Milner, John
(1785) Milnor, John, gentleman, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
(1791) #61 Lombard St., McCullough, Captain
(1791) #61 Lombard St., Mannierck, Anthony V., teacher of the French language

(1785) #301, Street, John
(1791) #59 Lombard St., Van Manierck, Anthony, schoolmaster

(1785) #302, Geyor, John
(1785) Geyer, John, baker, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
(1791) #57 Lombard St., Guyer, John, baker

(1785) #303, no listing
(1791) #55 Lombard St., Beaument, John, cordwainer

(1785) #305, Young, James
(1791) #51 Lombard St., Busbey, Robert, coach maker

(1785) #306, Edenborn, Philip
(1785) Eddenbourne, Peter, innkeeper, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
The correct alignment of the first initial, the last name, the street and block, and finally the 1791 alignment backed up by Sarah Moulder's matchup next door, make it pretty certain that this is a correct alignment. It's not yet clear whether there was only a Peter whose name was incorrectly noted as Philip by MacPherson, or whether there was both a Peter and a Philip in 1785.
(1791) #49 Lombard St., Edenborn, Peter, tavernkeeper

(1785) #307, Moulder, Widow
(1785) Moulder, Mrs., gentlewoman, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
(1791) #47 Lombard St., Moulder, Sarah, gentlewoman

(1785) #308, Hazlewood, John, merchant

(1785) #309, Hall, Walter
(1785) Hall, Walter, gentleman, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
(1791) #45 Lombard St., Collins, Robert, sea captain

BETWEEN 2ND AND 3RD, UNKNOWN SIDE

(1785) Armitage, Benjamin, blacksmith, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
(1785) Cooke, Dorothy, schoolmistress, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
(1785) Cooper, John, house carpenter, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
(1785) Cram, John, instrument maker, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
(1785) Fienadure, James, tinplate worker, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
(1785) Garrett, John, grocer, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd
(1785) McGibbon, Alexander, taylor, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd

(1785) Smith, James, painter, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd

CORNER OF LOMBARD AND 3RD

Supposedly, this is the corner depicted in Charles Wilson Peale's engraved scene The Accident in Lombard-Street Philada. 1787, with the corner building depicted at the left foreground said to be Peale's home at #36.cite A building with a baker's shop is depicted halfway down the same side of the street, to serve the story of the picture (a young woman bringing a pie from the shop drops it through carelessness) but if the artist's home is the large building on the left we are left to wonder about the baker's shop. Bakers Francis Baker and John Geyor lived on the blocks to the east of Peale, but only a biscuit baker lived on the block depicted, from 3rd to 4th. If the scene is architecturally accurate (and it does show a gap after the corner house, which would accord with MacPherson's directory) the baker's shop is at #43, the home of sea captain John Geyer throughout the late 1780s. Most likely the location of the baker's shop was no more than artistic license, to support the story being told by the engraving.

(1785) #35, Barron, Stephen
(1785) Bardon, Stephen, grocer, corner of Lombard and 3rd

(1785) #36, Peel, Charles Wilson
(1785) Peale, Charles Wilson, painter and limner, corner of Lombard and 3rd
Peale (1741-1827) was one of the best-known 18th-century American artists, who lived at the southwestern corner of the intersection. Many of his papers are archived at the American Philosophical Society here in Philadelphia. He's buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's Church at the corner of Pine and 3rd Streets. His well-known work from 1795, usually called "Staircase Group," shows his sons Titian Peale and Raphaelle Peale ascending a twisting staircase of the kind often encountered in Philadelphia houses of the era. It was meant to fool the eye into thinking that they were real, and Washington is said to have nodded to the figures as he passed. This work, in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is reproduced in Garvan's Federal Philadelphia: The Athens of the Western World, pp.86-87, and Garvan remarks, "The realism of the wooden steps is obvious; the wallpaper and its banding at the baseboard level suggest that it may have been posed in Peale's own house."
Also living probably with Peale at this time was his student, the artist William Mercer (1773-1850) who studied with Peale 1783-1786. One of his well-known works is the Battle of Princeton (January 3, 1777) at which his father, General Hugh Mercer, was killed; this painting hangs at the Atwater Kent Museum in Philadelphia (from the exhibit card of which this information comes).
(1791) #62 Lombard St., Peale, Charles Wilson, limner

(1785) #289, Mitchell, Thomas Mitchell clearly lived on the north side of the street, by both the 1785 and 1791 numbering systems. The residents of #288 and #290 match residents of the block between 3rd and 4th and 2nd and 3rd, respectively, leading to an implication that Mitchell lived at the corner. This is far from certain, however. For one thing, MacPherson would have numbered an unoccupied lot at the other corner, if one existed, where a house would probably one day be built, and there would be a gap or jump in the numbering. But there is no gap. Further research may help clear this up.
(1791) #75 Lombard St., Mitchell, Thomas, sexton

(1785) Darby, Daniel, captain, corner of Lombard and 3rd

The 1830 directory, in which the same numbering system was in place, gives the following numbers for this corner:

#62 Lombard, southwestern corner.
#65 Lombard, northwestern corner.
#61 Lombard, southeastern corner.
#63 Lombard, northeastern corner.

BETWEEN 3RD AND 4TH, SOUTH SIDE

(1785) #41, Blythe, Henry (by implication, since both southern corners of 3rd and Lombard are in theory nailed down, and there's a jump from #36 to Blythe's #41).
(1791) #72 Lombard St., Davis, Benjamin, head measurer [of grain and salt]

(1785) #42, vacant or residents would not give name
(1791) #74 Lombard St., Atkinson, Captain, mariner

(1785) #43, Osman, John
(1785) Osborne, John, captain, Lombard between 3rd and 4th
The association of the two 1785 listings was a stretch in logic, but the 1791 matchup of the name and exact place (based on William Ralston two doors down, whose last name MacPherson or his assistant also mangled) makes it clear the 1785 listings were correctly matched.
(1791) #76 Lombard St., Osborn, John, sea captain

(1785) #44, Clark, Andrew
(1785) Clark, Andrew, house carpenter, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd (either White got the block wrong, and it should have been between 3rd and 4th, or these listings do not refer to the same person).
(1791) #78 Lombard St., Parker, David, mariner

(1785) #45, Rawlson, William
(1785) Ralston, William, gentleman, Lombard between 2nd and 3rd (another example of the same kind of possible mistake; the fact that these two were next-door neighbors makes it seem more likely that White got the block wrong).
(1791) #80 Lombard St., Ralston, William, gentleman

(1785) #48, Webster, Widow
(1791) #86 Lombard St., Moore, James, gardner

(1785) #49, Bedford, Gunning (also listed at #55)
(1791) #88 Lombard St., Bedford, Gunning, Esq.

(1785) #50, Matlock, Josiah
(1791) #90 Lombard St., no listing

(1785) #55, Bedford, Gunning (also listed at #49)
(1785) Bedford, Gunning, Esq., house carpenter, Lombard between 3rd and 4th

A tankard (a lidded drinking vessel) which silversmith Joseph Anthony (1762-1814; listed at #45 Market Street) made in 1788, cited in Beatrice Garvan's Federal Philadelphia: The Athens of the Western World, p.18, was presented to Gunning Bedford by John Penn, Jr. (William Penn's grandson) and a cousin of his also named John Penn; they presented an identical one (also by Anthony) to the lawyer Charles Jarvis. The one given to Jarvis is in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and is illustrated in Garvan's book, pages 18 and 19.
(1791) #100 Lombard St., no listing

BETWEEN 3RD AND 4TH, NORTH SIDE

(1785) #262, Murdock, Widow (she may have lived between 4th and 5th, by the number)
(1791) #123 Lombard St., no listing

(1785) #280, Ackard, William (by implication based on proximity to #288, which was close to the eastern side of the block-- #290 was on the other side of 3rd Street)
(1791) #87 Lombard St., Eckart, William, biscuit baker

(1785) #281, Shelback, Charles
(1791) #85 Lombard St., no listing

(1785) #282, Mucklewaine, John (name may have been John McIlvaine; see #288)
(1791) #83 Lombard St., no listing

(1785) #286, vacant or residents would not give name
(1791) #81 Lombard St., Peale, James, limner

(1785) #287, vacant or residents would not give name
(1791) #79 Lombard St., Hazlewood, John, gentleman

(1785) #288, Mucklewaine, Ferguson
(1785) McIlvaine, Fergus, merchant, Lombard between 3rd and 4th
(1791) #77 Lombard St., McElvaine, Ferguson, merchant

BETWEEN 3RD AND 4TH, UNKNOWN SIDE

(1785) Ackard, William, gentleman, Lombard between 3rd and 4th
(1785) Angus, John, captain, merchant, Lombard between 3rd and 4th
(1785) Askbridge, Joseph, biscuit baker, Lombard between 3rd and 4th
(1785) Campbell, John, shopkeeper, Lombard between 3rd and 4th
(1785) Hazelwood, John, flour merchant, Lombard between 3rd and 4th
(1785) Lyle, William, captain, Lombard between 3rd and 4th

CORNER OF LOMBARD AND 4TH

(1785) Ludwig, Luke, sign Golden Fleece, corner of Lombard and 4th

The 1830 directory, in which the same numbering system was (theoretically) in place, gives the following numbers for this corner:

#100 Lombard, southwestern corner.
#97 Lombard, northwestern corner.
#95 Lombard, southeastern corner.
#99 Lombard, northeastern corner.

BETWEEN 4TH AND 5TH, SOUTH SIDE

No listings.

BETWEEN 4TH AND 5TH, NORTH SIDE

See listing for #262, between 3rd and 4th.

BETWEEN 4TH AND 5TH, UNKNOWN SIDE

(1785) Henderson, Alexander, innkeeper, Lombard between 4th and 5th

CORNER OF LOMBARD AND 5TH

(1785) Burford, George, chair maker, corner of Lombard and 5th