Moravian Architecture and Town Planning
Subtitle: Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Other Eighteenth-Century American Settlements (Pennsylvania Paperbacks)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: January 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780812216370
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; City & town planning - architectural aspects; New towns - design & planning; c 1700 to c 1800; Pennsylvania; Urban Planning; Vernacular Architecture; Architecture; United States; USA; Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Dev.; Criticism; History - General; U.S. Architecture - General; Architecture / Planning; Bethlehem; History; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; United States - State & Local - General; 18th century; Moravian architecture
First sentence: The stream of immigration of Germanic peoples to this country can be divided roughly into three periods: the late seventeenth-century migration centering near Philadelphia; the influx of Swiss Mennonites, as well as Lutheran and Calvinist Palatines, into the area known today as the Pennsylvania Dutch country, which began about 1710 and lasted in varying strength until just before the American Revolution; and the third wave in the nineteenth century, resulting from political upheavals in Germany, which chiefly washed the mid-west.