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Fairmount Water Works- Philadelphia, PA
ARCH 3111: Introduction to Historic Preservation- Temple University
Professor Dennis Playdon
Individual students will pursue a single project for the semester. Each
student will select a building from the suggested list, but may also
propose another choice. The water works was built along the Schuylkill
River after the yellow fever epidemic. Architect and engineer Frederick
Graff designed the exterior of the water works with the style of
Greek/Roman revival architecture to hide the engineer mechanism and
to show the beauty of the overall water works.
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