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Cedar Grove, The Cliffs, Grumblethorpe, Mount Airy, Bartram's House and Garden: Accommodation of the Vernacular
Author : Mark E. Reinberger
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 43,9 MB
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1421411636
Cedar Grove, The Cliffs, Grumblethorpe, Mount Airy, Bartram's House and Garden: Accommodation of the Vernacular
Author : Joseph Minardi
Publisher : Schiffer Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,17 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780764337710
West of the Schuylkill River, what was once Blockley and Kingsessing Townships is now West Philadelphia. Here is a comprehensive look at the rich architectural history of neighborhoods in and around University City and biographies of the architects who made it possible. In more than 500 images, see this area of the "City of Brotherly Love" transition from humble beginnings as a collection of sprawling farms and dusty hamlets to a streetcar suburb for upwardly mobile types looking to escape the old city and a haven for esteemed educational institutions. Packed with archival images, maps, and color photos, the book covers Cedar Park to Powelton Village, chronicling the charm and elegance found in West Philadelphia's architecture, much of which is still on public display. Examples include Second Empire, Victorian, Queen Anne, Collegiate Gothic, and Italianate styles. This is a global and historic review ideal for architects, urban planners, historians, and of course residents of Blockley and Kingsessing.
Author : Roger W. Moss
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 1998-05-29
Category : 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 : David S. Traub
Publisher : Camino Books
Page : pages
File Size : 30,88 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 9781680980493
"Philadelphia: City of Homes is a collection of intriguing photographs of various types of Philadelphia homes taken and assembled with descriptive captions by longtime local architect David S. Traub. Compared to other large urban centers such as New York and Chicago, Philadelphia has relatively few apartment buildings. The single house or house-like structure still prevails in the city's architectural profile. This book covers seven different styles and forms of such houses: Philadelphia's Rowhouses (colloquially called rowhomes) and Townhouses, Twin Houses, Courtyard and Walkway Houses, Detached Houses, Mansions and Carriage Houses, Unusual Houses and Modern Houses and the New Vernacular within the city limits"--
Author : Elizabeth B. McCall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1442227729
Officially known as Washington Square Park, Philadelphia’s Society Hill district contains an impressive number of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century houses—perhaps as many as any other comparable area in the United States. This book presents, in text and pictures, the stories of its outstanding Colonial and Early American mansions and dwellings and simple row houses; its churches and other exceptional historic buildings. Old Philadelphia Houseson Society Hill contains both notes and illustrations on the design and architectural details of early Philadelphia row houses. There are also enlightening chapters devoted to such famous places as Bell’s Court, the Drinker House and Drinker’s Court, the Head House and Old Market, the Hill-Physick-Keith House and the Latta House, Old Pine Street Church and the Pennsylvania Hospital, the Man Full of Trouble Inn and many others, all complemented by photos. Featured are the uses of brick and the traditional design and decoration of the period’s interiors, showing antique furniture and prevailing modes of interior decoration. The 150 photographs strike a nice balance of exteriors and interiors, showing characteristic basics and details of structure and charming furniture pieces and accessories of old-time daily living. Tidbits of information concerning such personages as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Dr. Benjamin Rush and other eminent Americans are scattered throughout the book.
Author : James B. Garrison
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Architecture
ISBN :
"Examines 40 properties in detail with over 300 archival and contemporary photographs, drawings, and floor plans." -- Dust jacket.
Author : Emily Wayland Dinwiddie
Publisher :
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 1904
Category : Housing
ISBN :
Author : Philadelphia Housing Association
Publisher :
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,51 MB
Release : 1928
Category : Housing
ISBN :
Author : Jack Myers
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 39,73 MB
Release : 2005-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0741424797
Fictionalized memoir which explores the dynamics of being raised in a declining Southwest Philadelphia neighborhood. Pint-sized and four-eyed, little Jimmy Morris is near the bottom of the food chain in his working class "streetcar suburb" of Kings Cross. He's a dreamer, schemer, schoolyard scrapper, secret lover of books, and classroom clown ... a kid you can't decide whether to hug or to slap. Meanwhile, the conformity of the 1950s is yielding to those turbulent '60s. Yes, the times they definitely were a changin' with Kings Cross in the eye of the societal storm.
Author : Philadelphia Housing Association
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,89 MB
Release : 1913
Category : Housing
ISBN :