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Philadelphia Row Houses
By Don Letts and Lindsey Kieffaber
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Penn's Plan
• “Penn's initial design for his 'green country town' was framed partly in response to his negative view of london”- (pg. 10. Spaces, inside and outside in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia by Sharon V Salinger)
• Philadelphia was the first large-scale gridiron.
• He designed the town for large mansions per block surrounded by gardens. A truly suburban setting
• Ironically, “...by 1750 the aspect of the toen bore a closer resemblance to London than to Penn's vision of a disciplined community.” (pg. 1. Houses and Early Life in Philadelphia, by Grant Miles Simon)
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Row House Comprimise• Row Houses were “Philadelphia’s dominant building type
for 300 years…” (pg. 14, The Comparative Row House Study: an Introduction to Architectural Design, by Paul Hirsorn)
• Row House design is essentially a comprimise between what Penn wanted, and what London was.
• The majority of the row houses did not have gardens in front of them.
• However row houses allowed for individuals to own property rather than the appartment style New York.
• Penn encouraged, and there still remains a psychology within Philadelphia (especially the old Philadelphia area) that the inhabitants are city people, but country people at heart.
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•Used in Germany and London (before the great fire of 1666)
•Relevance: the first row houses were constructed in half-timber construction (Budd’s Row- “the earliest recorded row in Philadelphia… dating from about 1691” (pg. 140, Robert Mills and the Philadelphia Row House, by Kenneth Ames)
Half Timber Construction
A few examples of half-timber construction:
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South Side of Elfreth's Alley
Georgian architecture- pediments- paneled shutters
Elfreth's alley - upper to middle class inhabitants - 1702-1755 - one side is primarily Georgian architecture, and the other federal.
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North Side of Elfreth’s Alley
Federal Architecture-collumns around the door-more aymewtrical and balanced.-have elevated entrances more often
- pedimented gable- three full stories- roof pitch reduced
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York Row:
•South side of walnut street facing sansom row
•originally very grand
•Built by BHL in 1807-1808, shortly before Mills created Franklin row
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Franklin Row:
•Built in 1810 by Robert Mills
•South 9th St, between Chestnut and Walnut St.
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Colonade Row
• Corner of Fifteenth and Chestnut Streets
• residential four-storey buildings
• 1830 • John Haviland
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Sansom Row:
•Brown Stone Façade – (16 of 18…2 westward have common Philadelphia brick)
•Imbricated Shingles – overlapping edges
•Mansards - upper story formed by a slanted roof
•Paired Doorways
•Continuous bracketed cornices – molding
Built in 1860’s By Benjamin Henry Latrobe
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Elfreth's Alley
Budd's Long Row
Franklin Row
York Row
Sansom Row
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Bibliography• Bridenbaugh, Carl. Cities in the Wilderness. New York: The Ronald Press Company.
• Burt, Nathaniel. The Perennial Philadelphians. Philadelphia: University of Pennslyvania Press, 1963.
• Salinger, Sharon V. “Spaces, Inside and Outside in Eighteenth Century Philadelphia.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 26, No. 1. 31. 1995.
• Ames, Kenneth. “Robert Mills and the Philadelphia Row House”. The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 27, No. 2. May, 1968. 140-146
• Schweitzer, Mary M. “The Spatial Organization of Federalist Philadelphia, 1790.” Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol. 24, No. 1. 31. 1993.
• The Octavia Hill Association. “Certain Aspects of the Housing Problem in Philadelphia.” Annals of the American academy of Political and Social Science.Vol. 20. July 1902, 111-120.
• http://www.uchs.net/HistoricDistricts/sansomrow.html
• http://www.brynmawr.edu/cities/courses/05-306/proj2/ab2/Developers.htm
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Bibliography con’t• Simon, Grant Miles. “Houses and Early Life in Philadelphia.” Transactions of
the American Philosophical Society. New Ser, Vol. 43, No. 1. 1953.
• Murtagh, William John. “The Philadelphia Row House.” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 16 No. 4. December 1957.
• Smith, Robert C. “Two Centuries of Philadelphia Architecture 1700-1800.” Transations of the American Philosophical Society, New Ser, Vol 43, No. 1. 1953
• http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ho_display.cfm/781464
• http://sacredheritage.com/normita/images/sloth-3.jpg
• Hirshorn, Paul. “The Comparative Rowhouse Study: An Introduction to Architectural Design.” JAE, Vol. 36, No. 1. 1982.
• http://www.brynmawr.edu/iconog/evans/files/phs178.html