George Cress, URS Corporation

1. The Dyottville Glass Works:
“One of the Greatest Curiosities of this Country”
George Cress, URS Corp.

2. Interstate 95/GIR
Kensington-Fishtown Dyottville Glass Works
Northern Liberties
Port Richmond

3. Excavation Area

5. Glass Factory Sand House
Building
1878 Hexamer Map
1878 Birds-eye View
1880 brick floor
Phase II Trench 1
Heating Furnaces
1878 Hexamer Map of the Dyottville Complex
and Phase II Test Trenches
Annealing ovens
Phase II Trench 1

6. Project Site Prior to Data Recovery Excavation
1878 Hexamer Map
Heating furnaces
Data Recovery Boundary and
Phase II Trenches

7. Data Recovery Excavation

8. Furnace Access
Annealing Ovens
Excavation of post 1880 Glass Works

9. Annealing Ovens
Tempering oven addition

10. 1858
Brick-lined Refuse Pit
Filled with Ash and
Furnace Access Vault
Glass
Post 1880 Brick Floor
Brick-lined Refuse Pit
Filled with Ash and Glass
Modified Annealing Ovens

11. Corner annealing ovens/furnaces
Corner annealing ovens/furnaces
Dyottville - 1831

12. Corner Oven/Furnace
Furnace
Illustration of Glass Works from T.W. Dyott Script

13. Northwest Corner of Glass Factory

14. Whitewashed exterior
bulkhead foundation
Corner annealing oven
foundation addition
Calico Printing Works
Foundation
Shale slab spreadfooter

15. brick furnace access vault entrance
calico printing
factory wall

16. Figural Flask c. 1840s
Bottle Bases with Embossed Dyottville Glassworks
c. 1860s
Washington Taylor