Philadelphia Architecture: A Guide to the City. Fourth Edition

Philadelphia Architecture A Guide to the City (Fourth Edition) provides more than three hundred descriptions and photographs both color and black and white of the city's architecturally most significant buildings. Spanning more than three hundred years these great buildings characterize Philadelphia as unique among American cities comprising as they do nearly every style of architecture found in the United States.Divided into four sections Philadelphia Architecture proceeds chronologically from the founding of the city in 1682 into the early Federal period through its industrialization in the 19th century and its growth as a metropolis in the 1900s concluding with the latest buildings erected in the 21st century. Each entry provides historical and architectural information pertinent to the structure and relates the building to its setting in the city.This compact guide also includes short biographies of the city's renowned architects; a building chart which catalogs the building types