The Philadelphia Country House: Architecture and Landscape in Colonial America

by Mark Reinberger, Elizabeth P. McLean, Elizabeth McLean

A highly readable, beautifully illustrated study of the homes built by elite colonial Philadelphians as retreats--which balanced English models with developing local taste.

Colonial Americans, if they could afford it, liked to emulate the fashions of London and the style and manners of English country society while at the same time thinking of themselves as distinctly American. The houses they built reflected this ongoing cultural...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421411636
• ISBN13: 9781421411637
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 3.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 8.7" x 11.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher