Holding Information

Collection: Chestnut Hill Historic District Files

Institution: Athenaeum of Philadelphia

"The finest example of an Italian Villa within Chestnut Hill, Pleasant View was erected by the Piper family 1854. The main building measures three ranks wide and three stories high in the center section. Paired arched openings fill the left and right ranks on the ground and second floors. A window hood sits above the paired door opening on the second floor of the projecting center section. The third floor of the center section, the campanile, has paired arched openings on all four sides. It passed into the hands of the Price family in 1898 and the Prices commissionned Kennedy & Kelsey, architects, to design a 3-story addition in 1901, Edgar V. Seeler, architect, to design a one-story addition in 1910, Kenneth Day, architect, to design alterations to the porch in 1933, and Kneedler, Mirick & Zantzinger, architects, to add a garage in 1955. Other additions were built in 1905 and 1928 and alterations undertaken in 1940"

Quantity: 1 folder

Local Call: 142:36

Item dates: 1854

Holding types: Manuscripts

Building Permit Information

Building Permit Type	Permit Date	Permit Number	Comments
City of Philadelphia Building Permit	1901	153
City of Philadelphia Building Permit	1905	4111
City of Philadelphia Building Permit	1910	7948
City of Philadelphia Building Permit	1928	1936
City of Philadelphia Building Permit	1933	1656
City of Philadelphia Building Permit	1940	3734
City of Philadelphia Building Permit	1955	1860

Documented Architects, Engineers, and Others

• Sloan, Samuel (1815-1884) (Architect)

Location

129 BETHLEHEM PK Browse this block
Philadelphia, PA

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