Keywords: Widener Mansion Broad & Girard.jpg Peter A B Widener mansion Broad Street and Girard Avenue Philadelphia Pennsylvania 1887 Willis G Hale architect Widener donated the mansion to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1899 which used it as a branch library from 1900 to 1946 It burned in 1980 and was demolished Free Library of Philadelphia http //libwww library phila gov/75th/SearchItem cfm ItemID 75A0015 ~ 1899 Author PD-Old Demolished buildings in Philadelphia Free Library of Philadelphia Buildings by Willis G Hale Peter Arrell Brown Widener Girard Avenue Philadelphia 1401 |