Philadelphia, PA, 19104 US / PA
The Woodlands in Philadelphia, the former country seat of William Hamilton, offers the public one of the nation's most architecturally sophisticated neoclassical houses from the years following the American Revolution. Its Schuylkill River site, originally located beyond the western edge of the city, was reshaped by Hamilton in 1786 to reflect contemporary English picturesque landscape and horticultural ideals. The mansion-house still stands as one of the greatest American domestic achievements of the eighteenth-century. The house contains one of the preeminent neoclassical interiors in the United States, boasting what were likely the best-finished and most sophisticated internal service spaces created at that time in Philadelphia, and perhaps the country as a whole. Today, The Woodlands’ 54-acre undulating landscape is at once a one-of-a-kind 18th-century English pleasure garden, 19th-century rural cemetery, and a modern green oasis for its neighbors in bustling University City and West Philadelphia.
Greater Philadephia Film Office
Philadelphia, PA US
Phone: 215.686.2668
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