re told, by the descen-dants of the thirteen Germans whoformed a community on the out-skirts of the English Quaker settle-ment of Philadelphia. Most ofthese fine old buildings date wellback of the Revolutionary war andnot a few bear the scars of the bat-tle of Germantown. Stucco was verycommonly… … Doorway of the Wyck house. 222 KEITHS MAGAZINE composed of coarse sand and lime, thelatter probably from the old lime kilnsup the Schuylkill River, although it isnot unlikely that the earliest work waslaid with imported lime. Farther out inPennsylvania, a common mud clay wasused as the binding…
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