Historic American Buildings Survey

Download or read book Philadelphia Preserved written by Historic American Buildings Survey and published by Temple University Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, William Penn's town is the living history of 300 years of architecture told in outstanding examples of Colonial, Federal, Italianate, and other early styles, and in the twentieth-century innovations of LeCorbusier, Kahn, and Wright. This new paperback edition updates the Historic American Buildings Survey collection, with new information on buildings lost through fire or demolition, or altered to restore the original architecture. Organized by the traditional sections of the city, The entries include extensive physical descriptions of the structures, analyses of architecturally notable features, dates of construction, alteration, or demolition, and a new street index. The book contains more than 100 drawings, photos, and maps from the HABS collection. Author note:Richard J. Websteris Professor of History and American Studies at West Chester State College, West Chester, Pennsylvania.