The Merchant’s Hotel at Fourth and Market Streets is a key setting in the historical coming-of-age novel Shot Tower.

The hotel opened as the Washington Hotel on the first block of north Fourth Street, in 1837 and enjoyed a run as the premier lodging destination in Philadelphia, mostly due to its location.

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