Philadelphia’s architecture, by William F. Gray ... written for the City history society of Philadelphia and read at the meeting of Wednesday, February 9th, 1910 (1915)
Gray, William F · Philadelphia, The Society · leaf 11
tunately narrow fronts or in the interiors, excepting an occasionaldoorway or mantel of good design. They are usually sturdy, straight-forward and simple in effect. 326 The Morris House, in South Eighth Street, is the most ambitious andsuccessful of the time. In the districts, then outside, but now… … THE MORRIS MANSIONEast side of Eighth Street below Walnut. Court*sy of Effingham B. Morris The mansions of the type of the Chew House, Stenton and others,vary little in their plan and outward blocky form. In their doorways,cornices and interior trim they follow each other closely, and the evi-dence…
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