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House & Garden 
A PHILADELPHIA BYSTREET 
It is a little red brick city of quiet, consistent charm, a city whose 
older streets have one dominating note of color and the slight 
irregularity of form that gives variety. It remains even today one 
of the few great cities where it is not difficidt, on some of the 
little bystreets, to conjure up the shapes of long ago. For here, 
in tiny houses up shadowed lanes, still dwell families whose names 
were famous in the founding of the nation and are famous today 
