File:DETAIL VIEW OF SOUTHWEST FRONT ENTRANCE - Sweetbriar, 1 Sweetbriar Drive, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA HABS PA,51-PHILA,396-12.tif

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DETAIL VIEW OF SOUTHWEST FRONT ENTRANCE - Sweetbriar, 1 Sweetbriar Drive, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
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Breck, Samuel
Breck, Jean
Price, Virginia Barrett, transmitter
Price, Virginia B, transmitter
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DETAIL VIEW OF SOUTHWEST FRONT ENTRANCE - Sweetbriar, 1 Sweetbriar Drive, West Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Depicted place Pennsylvania; Philadelphia County; Philadelphia
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
Dimensions 5 x 7 in.
Current location
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
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HABS PA,51-PHILA,396-12
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  • Significance: Samuel Breck, a merchant with a future in state and national politics, built Sweetbrier in 1797. Like other Philadelphians in his social and financial position, Breck wished to escape the city's late 18th century yellow fever epidemic and could afford to commission a stately house upriver in one of the neighboring locales. However, despite resemblance to villas in the area, Sweetbrier was not a seasonal retreat but the Breck family's full-time residence. In order to create Fairmount Prrk, the City of Philadelphia purchased Sweetbrier and surrounding properties during the mid 19th century the benefits of a sylvan landscape that had once attracted exclusive private development were thus extended to the public at large.
  • Survey number: HABS PA-1670
  • Building/structure dates: 1797 Initial Construction
  • Building/structure dates: 1870 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1929 Subsequent Work
  • Building/structure dates: 1975 Subsequent Work
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 72001151.
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/pa0924.photos.138584p
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Object location39° 57′ 07.99″ N, 75° 09′ 51.01″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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