William Penn Annex East in Philadelphia in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)

Robert Morris

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), December 17, 2022

1. Robert Morris Marker

This statue has been defaced. Per the nearby National Park Service interpretive signage, the guerilla inscription, while misspelled, is accurate.

Inscription. Patriot · Statesman · Financier
1734 - 1806

Erected 1923 by Paul Wayland Bartlett, sculptor.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Industry & Commerce • Patriots & Patriotism • War, US Revolutionary.

Location. 39° 56.864′ N, 75° 8.916′ W. Memorial is in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia County. It is in William Penn Annex East. It can be reached from Walnut Street west of South 4th Street, on the right when traveling west. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 419 Walnut St, Philadelphia PA 19106, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Southeast Pennsylvania. It is also in the American Northeast

and in the Mid-Atlantic.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

New Netherland,

and one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Robert Morris (1734 - 1806) (a few steps from this marker); Secretary of the Navy’s Office Site (within shouting distance of this marker); Rose Garden (within shouting distance of this marker); Surgeons’ Hall Site (within shouting distance of this marker); Insurance Company of North America (within shouting distance of this marker); The Second Bank of the United States (within shouting distance of this marker); Portrait Gallery in the Second Bank of the United States

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(within shouting distance of this marker); a different marker also named Second Bank of the United States (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Philadelphia.

Robert Morris Statue image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Beverly Pfingsten, July 5, 2008

2. Robert Morris Statue

Credits. This page was last revised on February 2, 2023. It was originally submitted on December 22, 2022, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland. This page has been viewed 442 times since then and 49 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on December 22, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. 2. submitted on July 16, 2008, by Bill Pfingsten of Bel Air, Maryland. • Devry Becker Jones was the editor who published this page.