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Author : Thompson Westcott
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Total Pages : 542 pages
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Download or read book The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia written by Thompson Westcott and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia: With Some Notice of Their Owners and Occupants (1877) written by Thompson Westcott and published by . This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 0 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.
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Author : Thompson WESTCOTT
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Download or read book The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia, with Some Notice of Their Owners and Occupants. [Illustrated.]. written by Thompson WESTCOTT and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thompson Westcott
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290895415
Total Pages : 546 pages
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Download or read book The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia written by Thompson Westcott and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Thompson Westcott
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3849677826
Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book The Historic Mansions and Buildings of Philadelphia written by Thompson Westcott and published by Jazzybee Verlag. This book was released on 1895 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. Thompson Westcott, the author, is perfectly at home on this subject, having written "The Guide Book to Philadelphia," and a history of the city. In the present volume, he has given a description of all the interesting historic buildings of the city, e.g. Penn’s Cottage, Swedes’ Church, Bartram’s House, Christ Church, Independence Hall, the Slate Roof House or Mount Pleasant, together with a notice of their owners and occupants.
Author : THOMPSON. WESTCOTT
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ISBN 13 : 9781033048016
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book HISTORIC MANSIONS AND BUILDINGS OF PHILADELPHIA written by THOMPSON. WESTCOTT and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ryan K. Smith
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300206976
Total Pages : 359 pages
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Download or read book Robert Morris's Folly written by Ryan K. Smith and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-23 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1798 Robert Morris—“financier of the American Revolution,” confidant of George Washington, former U.S. senator—plunged from the peaks of wealth and prestige into debtors' prison and public contempt. How could one of the richest men in the United States, one of only two founders who signed the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution, suffer such a downfall? This book examines for the first time the extravagant Philadelphia town house Robert Morris built and its role in bringing about his ruin. Part biography, part architectural history, the book recounts Morris’s wild successes as a merchant, his recklessness as a land speculator, and his unrestrained passion in building his palatial, doomed mansion, once hailed as the most expensive private building in the United States but later known as “Morris’s Folly.” Setting Morris’s tale in the context of the nation’s founding, this volume refocuses attention on an essential yet nearly forgotten American figure while also illuminating the origins of America’s ongoing, ambivalent attitudes toward the superwealthy and their sensational excesses.
Author : Catherine Kerrison
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 1101886269
Total Pages : 450 pages
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Download or read book Jefferson's Daughters written by Catherine Kerrison and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The remarkable untold story of Thomas Jefferson’s three daughters—two white and free, one black and enslaved—and the divergent paths they forged in a newly independent America FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON PRIZE • “Beautifully written . . . To a nuanced study of Jefferson’s two white daughters, Martha and Maria, [Kerrison] innovatively adds a discussion of his only enslaved daughter, Harriet Hemings.”—The New York Times Book Review Thomas Jefferson had three daughters: Martha and Maria by his wife, Martha Wayles Jefferson, and Harriet by his slave Sally Hemings. Although the three women shared a father, the similarities end there. Martha and Maria received a fine convent school education while they lived with their father during his diplomatic posting in Paris. Once they returned home, however, the sisters found their options limited by the laws and customs of early America. Harriet Hemings followed a different path. She escaped slavery—apparently with the assistance of Jefferson himself. Leaving Monticello behind, she boarded a coach and set off for a decidedly uncertain future. For this groundbreaking triple biography, history scholar Catherine Kerrison has uncovered never-before-published documents written by the Jefferson sisters, as well as letters written by members of the Jefferson and Hemings families. The richly interwoven stories of these strong women and their fight to shape their own destinies shed new light on issues of race and gender that are still relevant today—and on the legacy of one of our most controversial Founding Fathers. Praise for Jefferson’s Daughters “A fascinating glimpse of where we have been as a nation . . . Catherine Kerrison tells us the stories of three of Thomas Jefferson’s children, who, due to their gender and race, lived lives whose most intimate details are lost to time.”—USA Today “A valuable addition to the history of Revolutionary-era America.”—The Boston Globe “A thought-provoking nonfiction narrative that reads like a novel.”—BookPage
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Author : Joseph Jackson
Publisher : Johnson Reprint Corporation
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Total Pages : 250 pages
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Download or read book American Colonial Architecture written by Joseph Jackson and published by Johnson Reprint Corporation. This book was released on 1924 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicole Eustace
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631495887
Total Pages : 467 pages
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Download or read book Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America written by Nicole Eustace and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER • 2022 PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORY Finalist • National Book Award for Nonfiction Best Books of the Year • TIME, Smithsonian, Boston Globe, Kirkus Reviews The Pulitzer Prize-winning history that transforms a single event in 1722 into an unparalleled portrait of early America. In the winter of 1722, on the eve of a major conference between the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee (also known as the Iroquois) and Anglo-American colonists, a pair of colonial fur traders brutally assaulted a Seneca hunter near Conestoga, Pennsylvania. Though virtually forgotten today, the crime ignited a contest between Native American forms of justice—rooted in community, forgiveness, and reparations—and the colonial ideology of harsh reprisal that called for the accused killers to be executed if found guilty. In Covered with Night, historian Nicole Eustace reconstructs the attack and its aftermath, introducing a group of unforgettable individuals—from the slain man’s resilient widow to an Indigenous diplomat known as “Captain Civility” to the scheming governor of Pennsylvania—as she narrates a remarkable series of criminal investigations and cross-cultural negotiations. Taking its title from a Haudenosaunee metaphor for mourning, Covered with Night ultimately urges us to consider Indigenous approaches to grief and condolence, rupture and repair, as we seek new avenues of justice in our own era.
Author : Mark E. Reinberger
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421418797
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Philadelphia Country House written by Mark E. Reinberger and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Frederick Dawson Stone
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Total Pages : 214 pages
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Download or read book Valuable Historical Library & Collections of Engravings ... written by Frederick Dawson Stone and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Free Library of Alleghany
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Total Pages : 1072 pages
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Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh written by Pittsburgh, Pa. Carnegie Free Library of Alleghany and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
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Total Pages : 552 pages
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Download or read book Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1902-1906 ... written by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanislaus Vincent Henkels
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Total Pages : 398 pages
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Author : Charles William Frederickson
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Total Pages : 300 pages
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