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Title: The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia

Author: Frank Cousins
Phil M. Riley

Release Date: July 6, 2009 [EBook #29334]

Language: English

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_The Colonial Architecture
of Philadelphia_

Nine hundred and seventy-five copies of =The Colonial Architecture of
Philadelphia=, of which nine hundred and fifty are for sale, have been
printed from type and the type distributed.

This copy is Number 201

[Illustration: PLATE I.--Doorway, Cliveden, Germantown.]

_The
Colonial Architecture
of Philadelphia_

_By_

_Frank Cousins and Phil M. Riley_

_Illustrated_

[Illustration]

_Boston_

_Little, Brown, and Company_

_1920_

_Copyright, 1920,_

BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved_

_Foreword_

So many books have been published which are devoted wholly or in part to
the fine old Colonial residences and public buildings of Philadelphia,
including Germantown, that it might seem almost the part of temerity to
suppose there could be a place for another one. A survey of the entire
list, however, discloses the fact that almost without exception these
books are devoted primarily to a picture of the city in Colonial times,
to the stories of its old houses and other buildings now remaining, or
to an account of the activities of those who peopled them from one to
two centuries ago. Some more or less complete description of the
structures mentioned has occasionally been included, to be sure, but
almost invariably this has been subordinate to the main theme. The
narrative has been woven upon a historical rather than an architectural
background, so that these books appeal to the tourist, historian and
antiquary rather than to the architect, stude