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The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America
Mark E. Reinberger
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Description for The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America
Hardback. 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. Num Pages: 464 pages, 230, 62 black & white line drawings, 142 black & white illustrations, 20 colour illustrat. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; AMKH; AMX; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 216 x 31. .
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
464
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421411637
SKU
V9781421411637
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About Mark E. Reinberger
Mark Reinberger is a professor of architecture at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Utility and Beauty: Robert Wellford and Composition Ornament in America. Elizabeth McLean is a research associate in botany at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. She is the coauthor of Peter Collinson and the Eighteenth-Century Natural History Exchange.
Reviews for The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America
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 a good look at them - inside and out - in this very handsome and informative book. ... Read more