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H. Louis Duhring Jr.

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and Duhring. Among the earliest were Duhring's innovative "Quadruple Houses" (1910) – four attached houses huddled together so that each shared one long and one short wall. These provided tenants with more privacy than row houses, and were cheaper to build than detached houses. Woodward built
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to pay for the costly project. Duhring modernized the relocated "Rocky Mills" in a particularly sensitive way – by increasing the building's depth, he was able to insert bathrooms and closets between its unaltered front and back halves.
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Relocation of Whitby Hall (1922–24). Duhring managed the relocation of the 1754 Georgian mansion from 1601 South 58th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Tunbridge Road, Haverford, Pennsylvania. It is now renamed "Whitby
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Sulgrave Manor (1927), 200 West Willow Grove Avenue, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Dr. George Woodward, client. The interiors came from a replica built for the 1926 Sesquicentennial Exposition.
66:. In 1897, he was the winner of the first Stewardson Traveling Scholarship for study in Europe. He returned to Philadelphia in 1898, and opened his own office. In 1899, he formed a partnership with 246: 526: 70:
and Carl Ziegler – Duhring, Okie & Ziegler. Ziegler left the firm in 1918, and the partnership continued as Duhring & Okie until 1924, after which Duhring worked independently.
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in Philadelphia. Woodward bought its interiors, and had them installed in his own replica, designed by Duhring, that stands at 200 West Willow Grove Avenue in Chestnut Hill.
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Adaptive Reuse: An Early Twentieth-Century Approach in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, by Dr. George Woodward, Developer, and Herman Louis Duhring Jr., Architect.
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300-06 West Willow Grove Avenue, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia (1913), Durhing, Okie & Ziegler, architects. One of Duhring's
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Duhring, Okie & Ziegler, Architects, "A Practical Housing Development: The Evolution of the 'Quadruple House' Idea,"
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in 1928. Whitby's magnificent staircase – a smaller-scale version of the staircase at
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two sets of "Quads" on Benezet Street, and later three more sets on Nippon Street in
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Between 1910 and 1930, Dr. George Woodward commissioned about 180 houses in the
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mansions – "Whitby Hall" in West Philadelphia was relocated to
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NRHP Nomination, Church of the Redeemer, Atlantic County, New Jersey
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from Historic Preservation Dept., University of Pennsylvania.
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minister, he attended the Department of Architecture at the
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Master of Science Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1984.
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Suburb in the City: Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, 1850-1990
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Rocky Mills (Fairfield), NRHP Nomination, March 29, 2002.
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Chestnut Hill 8br Duhring estate sells for $ 1.1 million
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Duhring was a member of the Philadelphia Chapter of the
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Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks
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Index


Cotswold-style
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
National Register of Historic Places
Episcopal
University of Pennsylvania
Mantle Fielding
Frank Furness
R. Brognard Okie
Chestnut Hill
Edmund B. Gilchrist
Robert Rodes McGoodwin
Mount Airy
Cotswold-style
Sulgrave Manor
George Washington
Sesquicentennial Exposition
relocation
Georgian
Haverford, Pennsylvania
Rocky Mills
Ashland, Virginia
Richmond, Virginia
Independence Hall
Detroit Institute of Arts
Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks
Powel House
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
American Institute of Architects

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