Penn Mutual Building

Penn Mutual

Now walk to 510 Walnut to the former Penn Mutual Life Insurance building. Note the Egyptian Revival facade, designed by John Haviland, a well known Philadelphia architect whose other works include Eastern State Penitentiary, Walnut Street Theater, and the Atwater-Kent Museum.

This facade was once part of Haviland's Pennsylvania Fire Insurance Company Building, built in 1838. The facade was incorporated into a new Penn Mutual Tower, designed by Theophilus Chandler. in the early 1970s.

Penn Mutual now has its corporate headquarters in Horsham PA. The building has been renamed 1 Washington Square by its new owners and is a condominium complex.

Washington Square and West

• Washington Square
• PSFS and Ayer Buildings
• Lea & Febiger, Publishers
• Athenaeum
• Penn Mutual
• Curtis Publishing
• Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
• Southwest Corner
• Holy Trinity Church (Washington Square)
• "Rip Van Winkle"
• Biddle House
• St. George's Greek Orthodox Church
• Reynolds-Morris House
• Musical Fund Hall
• Mikveh Israel Cemetery
• Bonaparte House
• Walnut Street Theatre
• Clinton Street
• Pennsylvania Hospital
• Mother Bethel A.M.E. Church