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Forgotten Philadelphia : lost architecture of the Quaker city / Thomas H. Keels.
Fine Arts Library - Core Reading Collection NA735.P5 K44 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Keels, Thomas H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lost architecture--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Historic buildings--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Historic buildings.
- Lost architecture.
- Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Buildings--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Buildings.
- Philadelphia (Pa.)--History.
- Physical Description:
- 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 x 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- How does a landmark become, after just a few generations, a landfill?& In Forgotten Philadelphia, Thomas Keels takes the reader through a lavishly illustrated journey through three centuries of Philadelphia's architecture: what was built, how the public perceived the value of certain buildings, and why those buildings were eventually demolished.& In writing that celebrates Philadelphia past without ever being sentimental, Keels describes a city that was always reinventing itself, filled with people who always had a very measured view of the worth and beauty of its public architecture.
- Contents:
- Penn's green country town (1682 to 1775)
- Athens of America (1776 to 1820)
- City in transition (1821 to 1860)
- Workshop of the world (1861 to 1900)
- The consumer city (1901 to 1940)
- Renaissance and retrenchment (1940 to the present)
- Projected Philadelphia.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-300) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9781592135066
- 1592135064
- OCLC:
- 174144398
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