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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 60

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indow seats, very common in contemporary houses, are a feature of the first-floor rooms. The kitchens iand the servants quarters are located in a separate \ building to the rear, a brick-paved porch connect- ^ing the two. This custom, as in the South, wascharacteristic of the locality and period.… … Plate X. — Glen Fern, on Wissahickon Creek, Germantown. Erected about 1747 by Thomas Shoemaker; Grumble- thorpe, 5261 Germantown Avenue, Germantown. Erected in 1744 by John Wister.

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