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- Title
From Almshouse to the Artistic Attached House: English Influence on the Development of Chestnut Hill.
- Authors
Bryant, George
- Abstract
The article discusses the residential architecture found in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with particular focus given to the area's attached houses. The author explains the influence of English architecture on these structures, tracing their origins to medieval English almshouses, and details the impact of 19th-century social reform, and religious re-awakening, and urban growth on the development of such houses in Chestnut Hill and London, England. Also discusses is the development of garden suburbs, the construction of twin houses, and English country cottages.
- Subjects
CHESTNUT Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.); ENGLAND; PENNSYLVANIA; ROW houses; DWELLINGS; ENGLISH architecture; SOCIAL problems; ALMSHOUSES; URBAN growth; GARDEN suburbs; COTTAGES; HISTORY
- Publication
Germantown Crier, 2013, Vol 63, Issue 1, p4
- ISSN
0742-6631
- Publication type
Article