Author: Elizabeth B. McCall
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442227729
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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.
Old Philadelphia Houses on Society Hill, 1750–1840
Author: Elizabeth B. McCall
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442227729
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442227729
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
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.
The Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 930
Book Description
The Townhouse in the Suburbs
Author: Dennis James Dingemans
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Languages : en
Pages : 796
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Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
Forbidden Housing
Author: Paul Erling Groth
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Languages : en
Pages : 624
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Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Catalog of the Avery Memorial Architectural Library of Columbia University: Painting It - Portk
Author: Avery Library
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 872
Book Description
Preservation News
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
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Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Library Journal
Author: Melvil Dewey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
Book Description
Includes, beginning Sept. 15, 1954 (and on the 15th of each month, Sept.-May) a special section: School library journal, ISSN 0000-0035, (called Junior libraries, 1954-May 1961). Also issued separately.
Catalogue
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Catalogue of the Library of the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University
Author: Harvard University. Graduate School of Design. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
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Category : Architectural design
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
A Field Guide to American Houses
Author: Virginia Savage McAlester
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0385353871
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0385353871
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 881
Book Description
The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.