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Eighteenth-century Philadelphia case furniture at Stenton.
From:
The Magazine Antiques
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May 1, 2002| Author:
Zimmerman, Philip D.
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James Logan (1674-1751), the learned secretary to William Penn (1644-1718), arrived in Philadelphia from England in 1699. By the 1720s, he had found a wife and begun a family. He had also started amassing one of the great libraries in the colonies, and had become one of the leading figures in the rapidly growing city. By that time too he set out to create for himself a country seat. The result was Stenton, built between 1723 and 1730 on the road from Philadelphia to Germantown. Loga...
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