{"id":7549,"date":"2012-04-25T05:54:38","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T10:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=7549"},"modified":"2022-02-10T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T16:06:24","slug":"briggs-riding-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2012\/04\/25\/briggs-riding-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Briggs’ Riding Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Here’s an advertisement for the Briggs’ Riding Academy from the program\/souvenir booklet for the play L’Aiglon<\/em> starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater back in 1901.<\/p>\n

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It’s hard to believe there was a horse stable at 23rd and Chestnut!<\/p>\n

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Here’s an advertisement for the Briggs’ Riding Academy from the program\/souvenir booklet for the play L’Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater back in 1901.<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31,4,104],"tags":[1516,1515,1514],"class_list":["post-7549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blast-from-the-past","category-news","category-philadelphia","tag-23rd-and-chestnut-streets","tag-boarding-stable","tag-briggs-riding-academy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-1XL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18008,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/01\/14\/broad-chestnut-%e2%80%a2-the-photo-elective\/","url_meta":{"origin":7549,"position":0},"title":"Broad & Chestnut \u2022 The Photo Elective","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"January 14, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's another Photo Elective shot by Tina Garceau. 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