Philadelphia, October 16, 1835. 1p. Folio. Original real estate purchase agreement between the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania for the Promotion of the Mechanic Arts and the Masonic Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania for the Masonic Hall and its lot on the 700 block of Chestnut Street in Philadelphia. Light creasing along old folds, one fold repaired on verso with archival tape, a few small chips at edges (touching a few words). With the blind stamp of the Franklin Institute on blank bottom margin, docketed with the Prothonotary on verso. See Norris S. Barratt, Freemasonry in Pennsylvania 1727-1907, Philadelphia, 1919.