Pittsburgh’s Wood-Paved Roslyn Place

Posted by on Jun 8, 2020 in | Comments Off on Pittsburgh’s Wood-Paved Roslyn Place It’s not often that architectural historians look down — we usually leave that to the archaeologists — but on Roslyn Place, one of Pennsylvania’s newest National Register–listed historic districts, we turned our heads to the ground to consider something that is rare in America: a wood-paved street. Roughly 26,000 oak blocks make up the 250-foot-long cul-de-sac surrounded by 18 houses in...
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Pennsylvania Governors Residences Open to the Public

Posted by on Jul 17, 2015 in | Comments Off on Pennsylvania Governors Residences Open to the Public Pennypacker Mills Pennypacker Mills possesses a lengthy history dating to about 1720 when Hans Jost Hite built the fieldstone house and a gristmill near the Perkiomen Creek, Schwenksville, Montgomery County. Purchased in 1747 by Peter Pennypacker (1710-1770), the house was enlarged and a saw mill and a fulling mill were constructed. The property acquired its name for the three mills. Peter...
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Mailbox

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Mailbox The work of photographer José B. Alemany of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, and Provincetown, Massachusetts, is cur­rently the subject of research. Alemany not only photographed landscapes and industrial scenes, but created modern and sen­sual images distinctive for the use of light and dramatic shadow, as well as for the fluidity of forms. He showed at the Gulf Gal­leries and the Kingsley House...
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Hope Lodge

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Hope Lodge Discover one of the country’s most beautiful Georgian style mansions by visiting Hope Lodge in Montgomery County, built in the 1740s by prominent Quaker gristmill operator Samuel Morris. In addition to its confident classical architectural style, Hope Lodge features a prized collection of antique and period furniture and furnishings spanning the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries....
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Through a Looking Glass: Colonial and Colonial Revival Hope Lodge

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Through a Looking Glass: Colonial and Colonial Revival Hope Lodge An avenue of overarching trees leads from the road to the house which stands on a slight rise. A little to the west is St. Thomas’s Hill, thrice held by soldiers during the Revolutionary struggle. In front, to the north across the pike, the Wissahickon winds through peaceful meadows and beyond rises the long slope of wood-crowned Militia Hill – every rood of land full of historic...
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