{"id":24289,"date":"2018-08-31T08:07:46","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=24289"},"modified":"2019-11-26T19:14:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T00:14:13","slug":"the-lit-brothers-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/08\/31\/the-lit-brothers-building\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lit Brothers Building"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was running errands in town yesterday, when I passed The Lit Brothers building on 8th and Market. Built in 1859 by architects Edward Collins & Charles M. Autenrieth, the\u00a0fa\u00e7ade is a\u00a0Renaissance Revival style. It reminds me of a wedding cake – well, if a wedding cake were made of\u00a0iron, brick, and terra cotta – it’s a gorgeous building. The store closed it’s doors in 1977, miraculously, it was saved from the wrecking ball and it’s been redeveloped with shops and office spaces.<\/p>\n

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I was running errands in town yesterday, when I passed The Lit Brothers building on 8th and Market. Built in 1859 by architects Edward Collins & Charles M. Autenrieth, the\u00a0fa\u00e7ade is a\u00a0Renaissance Revival style. It reminds me of a wedding … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[104,2093],"tags":[4500,4502,4501,4499,4308,4503],"class_list":["post-24289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","tag-8th-market","tag-charles-m-autenrieth","tag-edward-collins","tag-lit-brothers","tag-philadelphia-architecture","tag-renaissance-revival-style"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-6jL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45681,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2025\/08\/26\/reading-terminal-headhouse\/","url_meta":{"origin":24289,"position":0},"title":"Reading Terminal Headhouse","author":"Joe","date":"August 26, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"12th and Market Streets in Philadelphia, PA Construction began in 1891 and was completed in 1893, with the headhouse officially opening as part of the Reading Terminal in 1893. 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