OSCAR BEISERT has a piece on the HIdden City website on the loss of industrial character of Northern Liberties by the proposed redevelopment of the JT Lumber yard. The article also discusses a number of 19th century lumber businesses and their interconnections.

I thank OE member Marc Zaharchuk for bringing the changes at the yard location to my attention.

https://hiddencityphila.org/2015/01/j-t-riley-lumberyard-yields-to-mixed-use-development/

For more information on the industrial establishments in Northern Liberties see the chapter in Workshop of the World featured here on this website.

http://www.workshopoftheworld.com/northern_liberties/northern_liberties.html

Originally written in the 1990s by Dave Orr and Roy Goodman, it was updated by Torben Jenk in 2007. He briefly mentions the lumber yard.