Author: Henry GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Book Bulletins Containing Genealogy, Topography, Pedigrees, Topographical Views, Portraits, MSS., Miscellanea ... Issued During the Year ...
Author: Henry GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Genealogy of the Fisher Family
Author: Anna Wharton SmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337698287
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
The Publishers Weekly
Author: American History in Image and Text
Author: John BidwellProceedings, American Philosophical Society (vol. 95, no. 3)
Author: Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9781422381724
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Rare American History Belonging to Hon. J.T. Mitchell ... and Estate of H.R. Kervey ...
Author: James Tyndale MitchellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Philadelphia Country House
Author: Mark E. ReinbergerPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421418797
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
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.
City Documents
Author: New Bedford (Mass.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Bedford (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
Includes the reports of the Auditor, City Clerk, Engineering Dept., Fire Dept., Board of Health, Dept. of Parks, Board of Overseers of the Poor, Free Public Library, School Committee, Superintendent of Streets, and Water Board.
Library Bulletin
Author: American Philosophical Society. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philadelphia (Pa.)
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Learned institutions and societies
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description