[PDF.87xj] The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America

The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America

[PDF.ij32] The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America

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 | #465214 in Books |  Reinberger Mark E |  2015-11-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  11.00 x1.25 x8.50l,3.69 | File type: PDF | 464 pages

 | The Philadelphia Country House Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America

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||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| Superb, entertaining and informative!|By Steve S.|This is a superb book! It provides a magnificent overview of the development of the country house in and around Philadelphia. There is an abundance of technical information in the book which provides a real gold mine for those interested in such details, bit it can easily be skimmed over by those not so inclined. The historic| ||"Some of them stick in the minds of locals as place names, street names, or both - Belmont, Lansdowne, Stenton, Mount Pleasant. But they started as country houses, well-to-do Philadelphians' answer to English manor houses. You can read all about them and get

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 plan...

You easily download any file type for your gadget.The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America   |  Mark E. Reinberger, Elizabeth McLean. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.

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