Municipal Art Society Tour of PLG
For those who hadn’t gotten enough of PLG on the house tour a couple of weekends back, the Municipal Art Society organized an architectural walking tour last Sunday led by Joe Svehlak. PlanetPLG.com tagged along and gives us the play-by-play, with some photographic assistance from Bob Marvin, on his blog. Svehlak pointed out the various…
For those who hadn’t gotten enough of PLG on the house tour a couple of weekends back, the Municipal Art Society organized an architectural walking tour last Sunday led by Joe Svehlak. PlanetPLG.com tagged along and gives us the play-by-play, with some photographic assistance from Bob Marvin, on his blog.
Svehlak pointed out the various architectural styles in the neighborhood, from Romanesque-revival in the earliest houses (on the north side of Lincoln Road), through Beau Arts in the late ’90s and 1910s, through colonial and Tudor revival in the years after World War I. He pointed out that construction stopped with the 1929 depression, except for a few ’50s houses built on the “Todd Yard”, land owned by the Todd family (of ship building fame) across Maple Street from their large mansion.
For the more celebrity obsessed, Shlevak noted that Christine Todd Whitman had been born in the neighborhood and pointed out the house at 55 Midwood Street where Alice Walker had lived.
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Anon.4:02,
I’ve always assumed the former, but I don’t really know. A superficial Google search didn’t have enough info about Christine Whitman’s early life to tell.
FWIW, former Gov. Hugh Carey of NY also grew up in PLG.
Personally, I’m more impressed by Alice Walker (and, for that matter, by Mae West’s mother) 🙂
so – is Chistine Todd Whitman of the Todd Yard ship building family or happen to have same name and born in neighborhood?
Woops! Sorry Joel.
In Joel’s defense – I corrected the pages after I saw his comment :-). Mea culpa.
Joel,
No one used the plural that I can see.
Anon 11:33,
I had the same thought–FWIW there was one young women pushing her baby in a stroller (well protected from the rain). Otherwise, most of the people were my age or older. House tours seem to attract a younger crowd–or maybe us old farts don’t let a little rain deter us 🙂
How old do you have to be to go on one of these tours?
One nitpicky item, it’s Municipal Art Society, not Arts(plural).
Unfortunately, it poured that day!