page_title: Samuel Sloan (architect)
section_title: Work
hierarchical_section_title: Samuel Sloan (architect) / Work
caption_attribution_description: George Allen House, 720 Washington Street, Cape May, New Jersey aka the Southern Mansion. In Cape May Historic District and National Historic Landmark since 1976
context_page_description: Samuel Sloan was a Philadelphia-based architect and best-selling author of architecture books in the mid-19th century. He specialized in Italianate villas and country houses, churches, and institutional buildings. His most famous building—the octagonal mansion "Longwood" in Natchez, Mississippi—is unfinished; construction was abandoned during the American Civil War.
context_section_description: Designated U.S. National Historic Landmarks:
  Fulton Hall, also known as Fulton Opera House and Fulton Theatre, Lancaster, PA (1852).
  Fayette School, also known as William C. Jacobs School, Northeast Philadelphia, PA (1855) Scheduled for demolition sometime in August/September 2012.
  Asa Packer Mansion, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania (1859–1861)
  "Longwood", Haller Nutt Mansion, Natchez, Mississippi (designed in 1859, it was never finished due to the Civil War)
  Additions to Mills Building, South Carolina State Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina
  Leigh Street Baptist Church, a Greek Revival church, built between 1854 and 1857 in Church Hill North Historic District which is in Richmond, Virginia.
caption: George Allen house, Cape May, New Jersey (1863).
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