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William Birch and the culture of architecture in Philadelphia

William Birch and the culture of architecture in Philadelphia michael j. lewis When in late 1798 William Birch began a set of engraved views provisionally architects hungry for public work — who crossed the stage so quickly that they called ‘Philadelphia Dissected: Or, the Metropolis of America’, one of his first scarcely left a trail. One cannot study their works; as with a hummingbird, we subjects was the Bank of the United States, the city’s newest and most important only know their velocity by the pitch of their movement. The few figures of public building (figure 1). He brought the project to a close two years later by consequence — Pierre Charles L’Enfant, William Thornton, James Hoban, once more drawing a bank, the Bank of Pennsylvania, that startling debut Stephen Hallet — left their mark offstage, in Washington, and only a few performance of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (figure 2). This pair of financial morsels in Philadelphia, which has made them difficult to grasp. If the city of bookends lent a pleasing symmetry to The City of Philadelphia in 1800, as Birch the eighteenth century has been studied in depth (one thinks of such pioneer- now called his book. Each was a stately rectangular block, prefaced by a colossal http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

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10.1080/14601176.2012.629508
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michael j. lewis When in late 1798 William Birch began a set of engraved views provisionally architects hungry for public work — who crossed the stage so quickly that they called ‘Philadelphia Dissected: Or, the Metropolis of America’, one of his first scarcely left a trail. One cannot study their works; as with a hummingbird, we subjects was the Bank of the United States, the city’s newest and most important only know their velocity by the pitch of their movement. The few figures of public building (figure 1). He brought the project to a close two years later by consequence — Pierre Charles L’Enfant, William Thornton, James Hoban, once more drawing a bank, the Bank of Pennsylvania, that startling debut Stephen Hallet — left their mark offstage, in Washington, and only a few performance of Benjamin Henry Latrobe (figure 2). This pair of financial morsels in Philadelphia, which has made them difficult to grasp. If the city of bookends lent a pleasing symmetry to The City of Philadelphia in 1800, as Birch the eighteenth century has been studied in depth (one thinks of such pioneer- now called his book. Each was a stately rectangular block, prefaced by a colossal

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