THE SHIPPEN HOUSE, FOREWORD. On the evening of February 21, 1910, by invitation of the mistress of the Shippen School for Girls, a large company assembled at the home of the School, the famous old Shippen house, at the northwest corner of Lime and Orange streets, in the City of Lancaster, Pa., to

Lancaster Lodge. Just what "bad eminence" he occu- pied does not appear of record— though the Know Nothing records were most distinguished for what they did not record. It seems that his father-in-law, the late Hon. Chris- tian Kieffer, who had been already Mayor of Lancaster, 1852-54, was ir- regularly

Girls, February 22, 1910 (to which reference may be had for them), I avail myself of your invitation to record some facts relative to the old Shippen mansion, just demolished, at the northwest corner of Lime and Orange streets, and to indulge in some reflections on domestic archi- tecture and social

official capacity, participating in a treaty making with the Indians. He resided for some years at Lancaster, Pa. where his second and third children were born. For a much longer per- iod and until 1768 he ma de his resi- dence at Carlisle, and was appointed by Governor Hamilton Judge of the Court of

third is that of Henry Robert Reed, his fath- er, dated 1816. Mr. Ford's portrait was painted in 1812, and is, therefore, one of the earliest of the artist's works. A very considerable cluster of Eich- holtz portraits and the relations of a notable Lancaster family have been traced to and through Mr

AN ITALIAN ARTIST IN OLD LANCASTER. (LUIGI PERSICO-1820) With all of its many distinctions Lancaster has never been notable for lavish patronage of the fine arts. It has neither a public gallery nor pri- vate collection of famous and mer- itorious paintings or attractive sculp- ture. It would be