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Author : Bobbye Burke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Historic Rittenhouse, a Philadelphia Neighborhood written by Bobbye Burke and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philadelphia Historical Commission
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (67 download)
Download or read book Rittenhouse-Fitler Residential Historic District written by Philadelphia Historical Commission and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Morris Skaler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738557434
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (574 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square written by Robert Morris Skaler and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Gilded Age, Rittenhouse Square was home to Philadelphia's high society, with more millionaires per square foot than any other American neighborhood except New York's Fifth Avenue. Established by William Penn in 1682 as the South-West Square and renamed after astronomer David Rittenhouse in 1825, Rittenhouse Square and its environs changed from an isolated district of brickyards and workers' shanties into the city's most elegant and elite neighborhood between 1845 and 1865. The brownstone and marble mansions on the square itself were inhabited by the city's wealthiest and most prestigious families, with names like Biddle, Cassatt, Drexel, Stotesbury, and Van Rensselaer. As Philadelphia's upper classes fled to the suburbs in the early 20th century, their mansions were replaced by skyscrapers or taken over by cultural institutions like the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Curtis Institute of Music. While only a few original residences remain on Rittenhouse Square, it is still the center of a lively upscale neighborhood.
Author : Robert Morris Skaler
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531636791
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (367 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia's Rittenhouse Square written by Robert Morris Skaler and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Gilded Age, Rittenhouse Square was home to Philadelphia's high society, with more millionaires per square foot than any other American neighborhood except New York's Fifth Avenue. Established by William Penn in 1682 as the South-West Square and renamed after astronomer David Rittenhouse in 1825, Rittenhouse Square and its environs changed from an isolated district of brickyards and workers' shanties into the city's most elegant and elite neighborhood between 1845 and 1865. The brownstone and marble mansions on the square itself were inhabited by the city's wealthiest and most prestigious families, with names like Biddle, Cassatt, Drexel, Stotesbury, and Van Rensselaer. As Philadelphia's upper classes fled to the suburbs in the early 20th century, their mansions were replaced by skyscrapers or taken over by cultural institutions like the Philadelphia Art Alliance and the Curtis Institute of Music. While only a few original residences remain on Rittenhouse Square, it is still the center of a lively upscale neighborhood.
Author : Nancy M. Heinzen
Publisher : Temple University Press
ISBN 13 : 1592139892
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (921 download)
Download or read book The Perfect Square written by Nancy M. Heinzen and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great cities and neighborhoods rise and fall, yet Rittenhouse Square in Philadelphia has seized the imagination and envy of social climbers, urban planners, and novelists alike for two centuries. In The Perfect Square, Nancy Heinzen—a resident of Rittenhouse Square for over 40 years and an activist committed to its preservation—provides the first full-length social history of this public urban space. One of the five squares William Penn established when he founded the city, the southwest-situated Rittenhouse Square has transformed from a marshy plot surrounded by brickyards and workers’ shanties into the epicenter of Philadelphia high society. A keystone of center city Philadelphia, it was once home to great dynasties, elegant mansions, and grand dames of the Victorian era. Today it is lined with million-dollar high-rise condominiums, where nouveau-riche entrepreneurs and descendants of ethnic immigrants live side-by-side. Heinzen lovingly chronicles this urban space’s development and growth, illustrating that not only is Rittenhouse Square unique, but so is the combination of human events and relationships that have created and sustained it. Painstakingly researched and generously illustrated with black-and-white photos from public archives, The Perfect Square will appeal to lay readers interested in history, to professional historians and urban planners, and to the thousands of new residents who have settled on or near Rittenhouse Square since the dawn of the 21st century.
Author : Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (428 download)
Download or read book The Rittenhouse Fitler Historic District Manual written by Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1998* with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Page Talbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (796 download)
Download or read book An Historical Report for Furnishing the Historic RittenhouseTown Houses of William and Nicholas Rittenhouse, 207 and 207A Lincoln Drive, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania written by Page Talbott and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Colimore
Publisher : Camino Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781933822037
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The Philadelphia Inquirer's Walking Tours of Historic Philadelphia written by Edward Colimore and published by Camino Books Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Philadelphia Inquirer's Walking Tours of Historic Philadelphia takes history buffs on twelve walking tours through different city neighborhoods, visiting buildings, streets, gardens, and parks that remain testaments to Philadelphia's historic past. Arranged to help readers follow a logical path from site to site, the book includes maps, information about which sites can be toured, and tips on parking, public transportation, and nearby restaurants.
Author : Charles Joseph Cohen
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781104445867
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Rittenhouse Square written by Charles Joseph Cohen and published by Kessinger Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : James N. Green
Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
ISBN 13 : 9780914076841
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (768 download)
Download or read book The Rittenhouse Mill and the Beginnings of Papermaking in America written by James N. Green and published by The Library Company of Phil. This book was released on 1990 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1691 the Rittenhouse family opened a paper mill outside of Philadelphia and for the next forty years were the only paper manufacturers in America. Wilhelm Rittinghausen, later known as William Rittenhouse, was born in Mulheim, Germany and learned the paper making trade. He moved to Amsterdam at a young age and then emigrated to America with his three children in 1687. William's descendants continued to be active in the paper making business into the nineteenth century when the productivity of the mill gaveway to the new technology.
Author : Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (841 download)
Download or read book The Rittenhouse Fitler Historic District Manual written by Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John L. Cotter
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812231422
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book The Buried Past written by John L. Cotter and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Buried Past presents the most significant archaeological discoveries made in one of America's most historic cities. Based on more than thirty years of intensive archaeological investigations in the greater Philadelphia area, this study contains the first record of many nationally important sites linking archaeological evidence to historical documentation, including Interdependence and Valley Forge National Historical Parks. It provides an archaeological tour through the houses and life-ways of both the great figures and the common people. It reveals how people dined, what vessels and dishes they used, and what their trinkets (and secret sins) were.
Author : Roger W. Moss
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812234381
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (343 download)
Download or read book Historic Houses of Philadelphia written by Roger W. Moss and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998-05-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 : Public ledger company, Philadelphia
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Historic Philadelphia written by Public ledger company, Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harry Kyriakodis
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439646015
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book The Benjamin Franklin Parkway written by Harry Kyriakodis and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Benjamin Franklin Parkway has sliced through the Logan Square neighborhood of Center City (downtown) Philadelphia since World War I. Named after Philadelphia's favorite son, the mile-long boulevard begins at city hall and heads diagonally towards Logan Circle before reaching the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The postcards and other images in this work show the parkway's development and its role in Philadelphia's civic and cultural life. Despite often serving as a speedway into and out of town, the Ben Franklin Parkway is a triumph in urban planning that has become a treasured part of the City of Brotherly Love.
Author : Paul Kahan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512826308
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia written by Paul Kahan and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2024-10-29 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philadelphia is famous for its colonial and revolutionary buildings and artifacts, which draw tourists from far and wide to gain a better understanding of the nation’s founding. Philadelphians, too, value these same buildings and artifacts for the stories they tell about their city. But Philadelphia existed long before the Liberty Bell was first rung, and its history extends well beyond the American Revolution.In Philadelphia: A Narrative History, Paul Kahan presents a comprehensive portrait of the city, from the region’s original Lenape inhabitants to the myriad of residents in the twenty-first century. As any history of Philadelphia should, this book chronicles the people and places that make the city unique: from Independence Hall to Eastern State Penitentiary, Benjamin Franklin and Betsy Ross to Cecil B. Moore and Cherelle Parker. Kahan also shows us how Philadelphia has always been defined by ethnic, religious, and racial diversity—from the seventeenth century, when Dutch, Swedes, and Lenapes lived side by side along the Delaware; to the nineteenth century, when the city was home to a vibrant community of free Black and formerly enslaved people; to the twentieth century, when it attracted immigrants from around the world. This diversity, however, often resulted in conflict, especially over access to public spaces. Those two themes— diversity and conflict— have shaped Philadelphia’s development and remain visible in the city’s culture, society, and even its geography. Understanding Philadelphia’s past, Kahan says, is key to envisioning future possibilities for the City of Brotherly Love.
Author : Nastasia Yakoub
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 1984857916
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Dame Traveler written by Nastasia Yakoub and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A breathtaking celebration of Instagram's premier solo female travel community, featuring 200 striking photographs—most of them all-new—plus empowering messages and practical tips for solo travelers. “For those with passports full of stories, this book carries you away to every dreamy corner of the earth. I can’t stop flipping through these visually incandescent pages to see where I’m capable of traveling to next!”—Caila Quinn, The Bachelor contestant and lifestyle and travel influencer From backpackers in Peru to artists in Berlin to storytellers in Morocco, Dame Traveler celebrates the diversity and bravery of women from around the world who are not afraid to think (and live) outside the box. The revolutionary Dame Traveler Instagram account was founded by Nastasia Yakoub, who was born into a strict Chaldean-Middle Eastern community where women are expected to marry young and put aside other personal ambitions. But at the age of twenty, Nastasia embarked on a solo trip to South Africa to volunteer at an orphanage in Cape Town, which sparked a love of world travel. Recognizing a void in the travel industry, she founded Dame Traveler, the first female travel community on Instagram, now more than half a million strong. Nastasia herself has traveled to sixty-three countries on solo adventures, sharing colorful photos of her tantalizing travels along the way. Dame Traveler celebrates these women with a photographic collection of 200 stunning images paired with inspiring captions, 80% of which have never been seen on the Instagram account. Organized into sections on architecture, culture, nature, and water, each entry features travel information, plus tips, advice, unique solo-travel experiences, and wisdom from contributing globe-trotters to embolden the next generation of Dame Travelers.
