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Author: Roger W. Moss Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 9780812234381 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 276
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"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: Roger W. Moss Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 9780812234381 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 276
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"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 ISBN: 9781680980493 Category : Architecture, Domestic Languages : en Pages :
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"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 ISBN: 1442227729 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 193
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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: Roger W. Moss Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 336
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This opulent volume, by the author and photographer of the acclaimed Historic Houses of Philadelphia, will serve as a guide through the architectural and religious traditions of Philadelphia, complete with maps, telephone numbers, and web sites.
Author: Joseph Minardi Publisher: Schiffer Publishing ISBN: 9780764337710 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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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: Donna J. Rilling Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 9780812235807 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 282
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How entrepreneurial housebuilders fueled a rapid economy. "A well-written and easily read business book with a historical perspective, quite fit for a general readership interested in the history of American enterprise."—APT Bulletin
Author: Roger W. Moss
Author: Roger W. Moss
Author: James B. Garrison
Author: Mark E. Reinberger
Author: David S. Traub
Author: Elizabeth B. McCall
Author: Roger W. Moss
Author: Emily Wayland Dinwiddie
Author: Philadelphia Housing Association
Author: Joseph Minardi
Author: Donna J. Rilling