Details
Creator Brightbill, George M., collector.
Title Randolph Mansion, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pa. [graphic].
Publisher Detroit: Detroit Publishing Co
Date ca. 1910
Physical Description 1 photomechanical print (postcard): photolithograph, color; 9 x 15 cm.(3.5 x 5.5 in.)
Description Exterior view of front facade of the colonial mansion, Laurel Hill located on Edgeley Drive at the corner of Fairmoutn Avenue. The central portion of the house was built circa 1767, the single story addition circa 1800 and the octagonal wing after 1837. Built for Rebecca Rawle and her second husband, Samuel Shoemaker. The house was purchased by physician Philip Syng Physick in 1828 and it passed to Physick's daughter Sarah Randolph who in turn sold it to the Fairmount Park Commission in 1869. The Commission used it for employee housing from 1869-1901 and then leased it to two organizations, The Colonial Dames of America and later the Women for Greater Philadelphia, who opened it to the public.
Notes Numbered 11229 on recto.
Also known as Laurel Hill and Joseph Shute House.
Sheet number: 81A01.
Divided back.
Digitized with funding from a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-506-19-10), 2010-2012.
Subject Shoemaker, Samuel, 1725-1800 -- Homes and haunts.
Shoemaker, Rebecca Warner Rawle, 1730-1819 -- Homes and haunts.
Physick, Philip Syng, 1768-1837 -- Homes and haunts.
Randolph, Sarah -- Homes and haunts.
Laurel Hill Mansion (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Dwellings -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Geographic subject Fairmount Park (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- East.
Genre Photomechanical prints -- Color -- 1900-1910.
Postcards -- 1900-1910.
Printer Detroit Publishing Co., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| Brightbill postcards [Fairmount Park - Mansions and Houses - Miscellaneous - 81]
Accession number 081-a01-d