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The Philadelphia settlers soon began constructing buildings with wood and brick with the first brick house being built in 1684. By 1690 four brickmakers and ten bricklayers were working in the city. In 1698 construction of the Gloria Dei (Old Swedes') Church, the oldest surviving building in Philadelphia, began. Construction of the church was ...
Letitia Street House is a modest eighteenth-century house in West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia. It was built along the Delaware riverfront about 1713, and relocated to its current site in 1883. The house was once celebrated as the city residence of Pennsylvania's founder, William Penn (1644–1718); however, later historical research determined ...
Philadelphia, Germantown: 1744 House Wister Tenant House: Philadelphia, 5269 Germantown Avenue: c. 1745 House Belmont Mansion: Philadelphia, Fairmount Park: 1745 House The Monastery: Philadelphia, Wissahickon Park: 1747 House Glen Fern: Philadelphia, 1100 Livezey Lane: 1747 House Glen Fern, also known as the Livezey House, is a fine example of ...
Georgian buildings, popular during the reigns of King George II and King George III were ideally built in brick, with wood trim, wooden columns and painted white. In what would become the United States, however, one found both brick buildings as well as those in wood with clapboards. They were sometimes painted a pale yellow.
The Slate Roof House was a mansion that stood on 2nd Street north of Walnut Street in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from about 1687 until its demolition in 1867. Built for Barbadian Quaker merchant Samuel Carpenter , the house occupied a small hill overlooking the Delaware River .
The original house was built in 1794 by John Craig, who named it after the Andalusia region of Spain. Craig hired architect Benjamin Latrobe to expand the house in 1806 in a Greek Revival style. In 1811, Craig's daughter Jane married prominent financier Nicholas Biddle (1786–1844).
Solomon House is an 1887 brick-and-brownstone building at 17th and Moravian Streets in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by the architectural firm of Furness & Evans, headed by Frank Furness, Philadelphia's leading architect in the last quarter of the 19th century. It was built as the southernmost of a row of five city ...
Guild House is a residential building in Philadelphia which is an important and influential work of 20th-century architecture [2] and was the first major work by Robert Venturi. [3] Along with the Vanna Venturi House it is considered to be one of the earliest expressions of Postmodern architecture , [ 4 ] and helped establish Venturi as one of ...