midst of a picturesque churchyard, it has an appearance rather English
than American. The detail of the wood trim is obviously Colonial,
however, and the brickwork corresponds to the best in Philadelphia. The
influence of Flemish brickwork is seen in the large diamond patterns
each side of the semicircular marble inscription tablet above the
principal doorway.

St. Paul's Protestant Episcopal Church, South Third and Walnut streets,
was designed by William Strickland and built some years later than St.
Peter's. The exterior remains the same, but the interior has been
considerably altered. It is a simple gable-roof structure of plastered
rubble masonry, and its facade with broad pilasters, handsome
round-topped windows and simple doorway is heavily vine-clad. A handsome
fence with highly ornamental wrought-iron gates and large ball-topped
posts lends a touch of added refinement to the picture. Edwin Forrest,
the eminent American actor, is buried in one of the vaults of the
church.

Although the Friends were the first sect to erect a meetinghouse of
their own in Germantown, about 1693, the Mennonites built a log
meetinghouse in 1709, the first of this sect in America, and their
present stone church on Germantown Avenue, near Herman Street, in 1770,
a modest one-story gable-roof structure of ledge stone. It would be
impossible to conceive anything simpler than the tall, narrow, double
doors with the little hood above a stone stoop with plain, iron handrail
on one side. In the churchyard in front of it lie the remains of the man
who shot and mortally wounded General Agnew during the Battle of
Germantown.

INDEX

Abacus, 109, 112

Acanthus leaf, 81, 164

Adam, mantels, 92, 179, 183;
design, in American building, 166;
cornice and frieze, 187

Agnew, General, 63

Allen, Nathaniel, 3

Ambler, Doctor W. S., 121

American flag, the first, tradition concerning the making of, 51, 52

Andirons, 172, 181

Andre, Major John, 14, 22

Arch Street, house at No. 229 (Ross house), 51, 52

Arches, detailed, 20;
flat brick, 23;
elliptical, 24, 172;
with cores of brick, 26, 27;
at foot of stairway, 60;
Palladian window recessed within, 66;
recessed, 66;
gauged, 141;
relieving, 141;
flanked by two narrow arches, 165;
across main hall, 193

Architects, amateur, 6

Architecture, advantage of study of, 2;
a part of gentleman's education in Colonial times, 6

Architrave casings,