| Contributor |
Nevil, Thomas, 1721-1797, architect. |
| Title |
[Mount Pleasant mansion, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia]. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
[Philadelphia] |
| Publisher |
PA. Philadelphia. 1870 |
| Date |
[ca. 1870] |
| Physical Description |
1 photograph : albumen on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (3.5 x 7 in.) (stereograph format) |
| Description |
View shows Mount Pleasant mansion in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia flanked by outbuildings. The view is somewhat obscured by
trees. The Middle-Georgian country house was built 1761-1765 for Captain John Macpherson after the designs of Thomas Nevil
on Mount Pleasant Drive in Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. Macpherson, a privateer during the Seven Years’ War, purchased
the estate with profits from these operations. Free white and Black laborers, indentured servants, and at least four enslaved
people of African descent, whose names are unknown, worked on the plantation. In 1779, General Benedict Arnold purchased Mount
Pleasant for his wife Peggy Shippen, but they never occupied the house. In 1792, General Jonathan Williams purchased the mansion.
The City of Philadelphia purchased the property from the Williams family in 1869. On behalf of the city, the Philadelphia
Museum of Art restored the house in 1926.
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| Is part of |
Fairmount Park, Philadelphia |
| Notes |
Title inferred from manuscript note on verso. |
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Date inferred from type of mount. |
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Yellow mount with rounded corners. |
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Gift of Raymond Holstein, 2011. |
|
Description revised 2021. |
|
Access points revised 2021. |
| Subject |
Arnold, Benedict, 1741-1801 -- Homes and haunts. |
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Macpherson, John, 1726-1792 -- Homes and haunts. |
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Williams, Jonathan, 1750-1815 -- Homes and haunts. |
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Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Mansions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Plantations -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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Slavery -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
| Geographic subject |
Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
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Mount Pleasant (Philadelphia, Pa. : Estate) |
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Mount Pleasant Drive (Philadelphia, Pa.) |
| Genre |
Albumen prints -- 1860-1870. |
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Stereographs -- 1860-1870. |
| Associated name |
Nevil, Thomas, 1721-1797, architect. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Holstein stereo - Fairmount Park [P.2011.47.954] |
| Accession number |
P.2011.47.954 |
