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Glenhill Farm : The History of a Family Estate, as Revealed in the Correspondence Between Brognard Okie and Ernst and Mary Behrend / Richard L. Hart.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (148 p.) : 35 color/31 b&w illustrations/1 mapContent type:
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  • 9780578795287
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. First Correspondence: Hiring an Architect -- 2. Architect and Client: Making Plans and Decisions -- 3. Building the Residence -- 4. Construction of the Outbuildings and Chapel -- 5. The Economics of Glenhill Farm -- 6. Life at Glenhill in the 1930s -- 7. The Late Correspondence -- 8. A New Beginning and Lasting Legacy -- Bibliography -- Photo and Illustration Credits -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author
Summary: By 1930, having developed a highly successful business, the innovative paper manufacturer Ernst Behrend and his wife Mary purchased a number of existing houses and farms to give them sufficient acreage to create a large estate. In 1948 this property became a campus of Penn State University. Known as Penn State Behrend, to this day it retains the original buildings at the historic center of the campus.Based on archival materials, including copious letters between the Behrends and their Philadelphia architect, R. Brognard Okie, this book recounts the planning and development of a unique residence as the country headed into the Great Depression. Letters between the key figures give the reader a glimpse into their thoughts and concerns, including the selection of an architect, the choice of an architectural style, issues involved in planning the estate, and the features and design of the buildings that were constructed or modified. Vintage and modern photographs help convey the nature of the buildings that Okie designed as well as a sense of the Behrends’ lifestyle in the 1930s.An absorbing microhistory of what is now Behrend College, Glenhill Farm provides a window onto a period when new money from industry supported lavish lifestyles, and it reveals how this particular project, conceived and constructed during the Great Depression, was affected by its extraordinary economic circumstances.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. First Correspondence: Hiring an Architect -- 2. Architect and Client: Making Plans and Decisions -- 3. Building the Residence -- 4. Construction of the Outbuildings and Chapel -- 5. The Economics of Glenhill Farm -- 6. Life at Glenhill in the 1930s -- 7. The Late Correspondence -- 8. A New Beginning and Lasting Legacy -- Bibliography -- Photo and Illustration Credits -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author

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By 1930, having developed a highly successful business, the innovative paper manufacturer Ernst Behrend and his wife Mary purchased a number of existing houses and farms to give them sufficient acreage to create a large estate. In 1948 this property became a campus of Penn State University. Known as Penn State Behrend, to this day it retains the original buildings at the historic center of the campus.Based on archival materials, including copious letters between the Behrends and their Philadelphia architect, R. Brognard Okie, this book recounts the planning and development of a unique residence as the country headed into the Great Depression. Letters between the key figures give the reader a glimpse into their thoughts and concerns, including the selection of an architect, the choice of an architectural style, issues involved in planning the estate, and the features and design of the buildings that were constructed or modified. Vintage and modern photographs help convey the nature of the buildings that Okie designed as well as a sense of the Behrends’ lifestyle in the 1930s.An absorbing microhistory of what is now Behrend College, Glenhill Farm provides a window onto a period when new money from industry supported lavish lifestyles, and it reveals how this particular project, conceived and constructed during the Great Depression, was affected by its extraordinary economic circumstances.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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