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The colonial architecture of Philadelphia (1920)

Cousins, Frank, b. 1851, Riley, Phil Madison, b. 1882 · Boston, Little, Brown, and company · leaf 34

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the country became amateurarchitects of no mean ability as a pastime.In and about Philadelphia their Georgian adapta-tions, often tempered to a degree by the Quakerpreference for the simple and practical, contributedmuch to the charm and distinction of local archi-tecture. To such amateur… … Plate II. —Old Mermaid Inn, Mount Airy; Old Red Lion Inn.

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