University of North Carolina Ashville, discovered the likeness while combing through images of the address. He spent $73 to have the Library of Congress create a high-resolution copy of the image for close examination. He identified a blurry face in the crowd that he thinks is unmistakably Lincoln.

He claims the bone structure of the face is an exact match for the President.The nine-story structure would rise at the current site of a shuttered Goodyear auto-repair shop on the east side of Broad Street between Brandywine and Green Streets, just south of the historic Rodeph Shalom synagogue building, according to a zoning permit issued last week for the project.