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Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
Y/M/D Person Association Description Composition Food Event
1875/00/00 Edward A Sibley House is built at 235 S 18th Street in Philedelphia. Later, it will be annexed to the Drexel mansion.
1894/00/00 Peabody and Stearns Architect A Beaux-Arts style mansion is built for George W C Drexel at 1724-1726 Locust Street and 231-233 S 18th Street on Rittenhouse Square.
1895/00/00 George W C Drexel Home Mary Stretch Irick Drexel and her husband George W C Drexel make a home at 1724-1726 Locust Street and 231-233 S 18th Street in Philadelphia.
1908/00/00 Theodore W Cramp Home Theodore W Cramp Mansion is built at 1720 Locust Street in Philadelphia, PA. It is now the Milton L Rock Resource Center at the Curtis Institute of Music.
1924/00/00 Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist Benefactor Mary Louise Curtis Bok and her husband, Edward, establish the Curtis Institute of Music, buying and renovating the Cramp, Drexel and Sibley mansions in Rittenhouse Square.
1924/10/13 Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist Benefactor The Curtis Institute of Music, an advanced music conservatory, opens on Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia. With guidance from Leopold Stokowski and the pianist Josef Hofmann, Mary Bok hired the faculty.
1925/00/00 Leopold A Stokowski Conductor Conductor Leopold Stokowski leads a rehearsal in the Common Room of the Curtis Institute of Music school's main building at 1726 Locust Street.
1927/00/00 Horace W Sellers Architect Casimir Hall, now known as the Field Concert Hall, is constructed of limestone for the Curtis Institute of Music at 1724 Locust Street.
1937/04/01 Gian Carlo Menotti Composer "Amelia Goes to the Ball" (Amelia al ballo), a one-act opera buffa by Gian Carlo Menotti premieres in English at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.
1939/00/00 Samuel Barber Composer "Violin Concerto" by Samuel Barber is performed privately in early 1940 by Herbert Baumel with the Curtis Institute Orchestra and Fritz Reiner conducting. Violin Concerto

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Particulars for Curtis Institute of Music:
Criteria Architecture-Engineering
Sight Category Building
Historic Use Single dwelling
Area of Significance Social History




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