Inside Out Library · Explore

The colonial architecture of Philadelphia (1920)

Cousins, Frank, b. 1851, Riley, Phil Madison, b. 1882 · Boston, Little, Brown, and company · leaf 307

An illustration from The colonial architecture of Philadelphia, 1920, leaf 307
unduly from the [ 194] Intej^ior IVood Finish furnishings of the room. And the charm of muchof the resulting woodwork indicates an early reali-zation by American craftsmen of the fact that anice balance between plain surface and decoration isas important as the decoration itself. It was bytheir… … w o 3 > w H- < Public Buildi?igs began to function, and here come thousands ofvisitors annually to view in awed admiration thegreatest- patriotic shrine of a free people. Thebuilding, designed by Andrew Hamilton, speakerof the Assembly, and built under his direction forthe State House, was…

Architecture · Architecture, Colonial

Internet Archive · Cornell University Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The colonial architecture of Philadelphia

More like this