Chain of Colonial Houses

PUBLISHED BY THE ASSOCIATE COMMITTEE OF WOMEN OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MUSEUM OF ART
HONORARY PRESIDENT MRS. RUDOLPH BLANKENBURG
PRESIDENT MRS. FRANK THORNE PATTERSON
VICE-PRESIDENTS MRS. H. S. PRENTISS NICHOLS MRS. HENRY BRINTON COXE MRS. EDGAR W. BAIRD MISS MARGARETTA S. HINCHMAN
CORRESPONDING SECRETARY Mrs. Herbert L. Clark
RECORDING SECRETARY Mrs. H. Norris Harrison
TREASURER Mrs. Edward Browning
MEMBERS Mrs. Lewis Audenried Mrs. Rudolph Blankenburg Mrs. William T. Carter Mrs. E. Bissell Clay Mrs. S. Grey Dayton Mrs. William A. Dick Mrs. Fitz-Eugene Dixon Mrs. Russell Duane Miss Louisa Eyre Mrs. Stanley G. Flagg, Jr. Mrs. George H. Frazier Mrs. Henry C. Gibson Mrs. F. Woodson Hancock Mrs. Charles Wolcott Henry Mrs. John S. Jenks Mrs. Charles F. Judson Mrs. Robert R. Logan Mrs. W. Logan MacCoy Mrs. John C. Martin Mrs. Sydney E. Martin Mrs. John D. McIlhenny Mrs. Richard Waln Meirs Mrs. Thornton Oakley Mrs. Henry Norris Platt Mrs. Eli Kirk Price Mrs. Logan Rhoads Mrs. C. Shillard-Smith Miss Jessie Willcox Smith Mrs. John B. Stetson Mrs. W. Standley Stokes Mrs. William H. Walbaum Mrs. P. A. B. Widener, 2nd Mrs. C. Stewart Wurts
HONORARY MEMBERS Mrs. Hampton L. Carson Miss Margaret Clyde Mrs. Henry S. Grove Mrs. Arthur V. Meigs Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury Mrs. M. Hampton Todd Mrs. Percival Roberts, Jr.
Philadelphia was the most important city in the colonies and the home of many leaders of thought and action in the days which saw the birth of the American nation. We are fortunate in having preserved for us the few historic landmarks in Fairmount Park, which have been restored through the leadership of the Pennsylvania Museum of Art and cooperative institutions and by the generosity of Philadelphians. This book contains pictures and sketches of eight old colonial houses, several of which date back to the middle of the eighteenth century.
Of the houses described, Cedar Grove, Belmont, The Cliffs, Woodford and Mount Pleasant antedate the Revolution, and are examples of early Georgian and mid-Georgian styles. The simple stone cottages which stand on the grounds at Belmont, Woodford and Strawberry antedate in style the mansion-houses there. Even the oldest portion of Cedar Grove, 1721, already shows a front of squared masonry, while the oldest part of Woodford has on the end the glazed headers which characterize the earliest brick buildings of the colony. The later houses are generally covered with stucco.