The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia
Author | : Thompson Westcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Dwellings |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Thompson Westcott |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 560 |
Release | : 1894 |
Genre | : Dwellings |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Elizabeth B. McCall |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
This photographic and textural history of Philadelphia's Society Hill entertains and educates.
Author | : Thompson Westcott |
Publisher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3849677826 |
Mr. Thompson Westcott, the author, is perfectly at home on this subject, having written "The Guide Book to Philadelphia," and a history of the city. In the present volume, he has given a description of all the interesting historic buildings of the city, e.g. Penn’s Cottage, Swedes’ Church, Bartram’s House, Christ Church, Independence Hall, the Slate Roof House or Mount Pleasant, together with a notice of their owners and occupants.
Author | : Roger W. Moss |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1998-05-29 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780812234381 |
"Historic Houses of Philadelphia" brings the region's most impressive museum homes to life with maps, touring information, and historical notes on 50 distinctive homes. 160 photos, 150 in color.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Thompson Westcott |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2024-07-31 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385546028 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author | : Marie Goebel Kimball |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Architecture, Colonial |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sydney Errington Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 149 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mark E. Reinberger |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2015-10-21 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1421418797 |
A highly readable, beautifully illustrated study of the homes built by elite colonial Philadelphians as retreats—which balanced English models with developing local taste. Colonial Americans, if they could afford it, liked to emulate the fashions of London and the style and manners of English country society while at the same time thinking of themselves as distinctly American. The houses they built reflected this ongoing cultural tension. By the mid-eighteenth century, Americans had developed their own version of the bourgeois English countryseat, a class of estate equally distinct in social function and form from townhouses, rural plantations, and farms. The metropolis of Philadelphia was surrounded by a particularly extraordinary collection of country houses and landscapes. Taken together, these estates make up one of the most significant groups of homes in colonial America. In this masterly volume, Mark Reinberger, a senior architectural historian, and Elizabeth McLean, an accomplished scholar of landscape history, examine the country houses that the urban gentry built on the outskirts of Philadelphia in response to both local and international economic forces, social imperatives, and fashion. What do these structures and their gardens say about the taste of the people who conceived and executed them? How did their evolving forms demonstrate the persistence of European templates while embodying the spirit of American adaptation? The Philadelphia Country House explores the myriad ways in which these estates—which were located in the country but responded to the ideas and manners of the city—straddled the cultural divide between urban and rural. Moving from general trends and building principles to architectural interiors and landscape design, Reinberger and McLean take readers on an intimate tour of the fine, fashionable elements found in upstairs parlors and formal gardens. They also reveal the intricate working world of servants, cellars, and kitchen gardens. Highlighting an important aspect of American historic architecture, this handsome volume is illustrated with nearly 150 photographs, more than 60 line drawings, and two color galleries.
Author | : Khosrow Bozorgi |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2023-07-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1538172585 |
Using six architectural examples from Philadelphia, this book present a distinct type of house inspired by organic architecture using words and over 200 photographs and drawings.