Format:
1 online resource (465 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781421418797
Content:
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
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Cover -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTE TO READER -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I: Historical Background and Regional Context -- CHAPTER 1 The Bourgeois Country House in England -- The Changing Nature of the English Gentry -- The Rearrangement of the House -- Country House and Town House -- The Compact House in the Seventeenth Century -- Seventeenth-Century English Landscape and Gardens -- The "Reform" of Eighteenth-Century English Architecture and Landscape -- CHAPTER 2 The Bourgeois Country House in the Colonies -- Colonial Architecture at Pennsylvania's Founding -- The Later Colonial Bourgeois Country House -- The Colonial Landscape -- CHAPTER 3 The Rise of the Philadelphia Country House -- William Penn and the Country Life -- The Lure of the Country in the First Generation, 1682-1722 -- Hiatus in the 1730s -- CHAPTER 4 Fulfillment in the Middle and Late Colonial Periods -- A New Generation of Country Seats -- The Proliferation of Country Seats in the 1740s and 1750s: A Landscape of Villas and Farms -- The General Character and Use of Country Seats at Midcentury -- The Flowering of the 1760s and Denouement in the 1770s -- PART II: Elements and Principles of Country-Seat Design and Function -- CHAPTER 5 The Process of Design and Building -- Design and Drawing -- The Process of Building -- Labor -- CHAPTER 6 Elements of Landscape and Architecture -- Landscape -- Architectural Exteriors -- Interiors -- Framing -- Urban and Rural: Similarities and Differences -- CHAPTER 7 Organizing the Fabric -- Proportion -- Hierarchy -- Room Use and Parade -- CHAPTER 8 The Logic of Service Spaces: Cellars, Garrets, Outbuildings, and Agriculture -- Service Spaces -- The Working Landscape and Agriculture -- PART III: Chronology of Houses and Style -- CHAPTER 9 Diversity in the First Generation of Country Houses: Pennsbury, Fairhill, and Their Contemporaries
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Conclusion: "A Life Worth Living" -- APPENDIX: Names on the Scull and Heap Map -- NOTES -- ESSAY ON SOURCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Color illustrations
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William Penn's Pennsbury Manor -- Fairhill: A Seminal Plantation and Retirement -- Belair: Fairhill's Cousin -- Fountain Low (Later Graeme Park): A Country Seat and Industrial Complex -- CHAPTER 10 Establishing an Architectural Norm: Stenton and Its Progeny -- Stenton: The Fruit of a Classical Education and Scientific Inquiry -- The Progeny of Stenton, Especially Hope Lodge: A Very Fancy Farmhouse -- CHAPTER 11 The New Ideal of the Villa: Springettsbury, Bush Hill, and Belmont -- Springettsbury: Gardens at the Seat of "the First Man in the Place He Resides In" -- Bush Hill: "A Fine House and Gardens" of the Hamiltons (with a Notice of Walnut Grove) -- Belmont: The Palladian Villa and Its Landscape Come to Philadelphia -- The New Ideal of Retirement -- CHAPTER 12 An Explosion and Variety of Country Houses at Midcentury -- Woodford: An Elegant Small Retirement in the Northern Liberties -- The Jacob Marks House and Whitby Hall: The Classical Gable Entry -- Cedar Grove, The Cliffs, Grumblethorpe, Mount Airy, Bartram's House and Garden: Accommodation of the Vernacular -- Fountain Low to Graeme Park: An Older Seat Reborn -- CHAPTER 13 The Flowering of the 1760s -- Mount Pleasant: An Elegant House for a Scottish Privateer -- Port Royal: Mount Pleasant's Sibling -- Cliveden: Benjamin Chew's Great Gray House in Germantown -- CHAPTER 14 Denouement: Other Villas of the 1760s and 1770s -- Laurel Hill: The Petite Retreat of a Gentlewoman -- Waln Grove: From Yeomen of the Northern Liberties to Merchants of Philadelphia -- Summerseat: A Frontiersman Becomes a Gentleman -- The Deshler-Morris House: Gentility Continued in Germantown -- The Thomas Mifflin House (with an Aside on Smith's Octagon) -- Chalkley Hall: Inconsistent Grandeur in Frankfort -- The Hills: Robert Morris's Dubious Villa -- Lansdowne: "The Best Country House in America"
Additional Edition:
Print version Reinberger, Mark E. The Philadelphia Country House Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,c2015 ISBN 9781421411637
Language:
English
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