Trying to find an Atlantic House in the 1860s and 1870s as a Clearing House for Circus performers to negotiate a contractual seasonal deal with the likes of Circus impresarios Pogey O'Brien or Adam Forepaugh on the local scene during the Winter months of circuses wintering in places like Frankford, Pa. for the Pogey O'Brien Circus animals and crowd and like Port Richmond, Pa. for the Adam Forepaugh winter menagerie and crowd, I think that George Conklin's dictated bio to Reporter Harvey W. Root, makes a mistake in memory of fifty years past and names the Allegheny House between eighth and ninth streets on Market as the "Atlantic House". I cannot find Atlantic House in the same time and place and think that this was a historic tangent not fully vetted or fact checked in an old circus player's book on the subject. I have also in research found that the hotel had a bar and restaurant which was the likely meeting and business discussing and contracting proposal areas like as in old Coffee Houses where business was regularly conducted in the same time period.
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