Buildings of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia and eastern Pennsylvania / George E. Thomas ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thomas, George E.

Series:

Buildings of the United States

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Architecture.

Architecture--Pennsylvania.

Buildings--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Buildings.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Pennsylvania.

Physical Description:

xiv, 675 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Philadelphia and eastern Pennsylvania

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Summary:

"Buildings of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia and Eastern Pennsylvania uses the physical evidence of community plans, building typologies and structural systems, and landscape to gain an understanding of the five great migrations that settled William Penn's Commonwealth. The first settlers were Swedes and Dutch who left traces and buildings near Philadelphia. They were followed by two groups seeking religious freedom-first the English, Welsh, and Scots-Irish members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and in the early eighteenth century German-speaking Protestants who brought their characteristic planning and building types to southeastern Pennsylvania. A fourth migration of New Englanders in the 1750s claimed the northern third of the state and brought characteristic New England town plans and buildings. The fifth migration of Eastern European Catholics and Jews at the end of the nineteenth century added their highly identifiable domed churches to the coal country. The hybrid vigor created by the interaction of these groups makes Pennsylvania unique among the American colonies and set the stage for the great industrial explosion that made the commonwealth a center of the American Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The rising industrial culture found its aesthetic counterpart in the architecture of Frank Furness who turned the dross of industry into the gold of design; his values continued through his students William L. Price and George Howe and on into the late twentieth century in the careers of Louis Kahn and Robert Venturi."--publisher's website.

Contents:

Holy experiment to holy experimental

Philadelphia County

The inner counties

The Piedmont : The end of the beginning

Beyond Blue Mountain to the Northern Tier : Pennsylvania's frontier

Anthracite Region : From picturesque to utility and back

The Northern Tier and the Poconos : From frontier to vacation land.

Beyond Blue Mountain to the Northern Tier : Pennsylvania's Frontier

The Northern Tier and the Poconos : From Frontier to vacation land.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gemmill fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780813929675

0813929679

OCLC:

526812499