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The Philadelphia Country House - Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America (Hardcover)
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The Philadelphia Country House - Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America (Hardcover)
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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.
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