Show Benjamin Franklin Had Interest in Home Horne Town Benjamin Franklins Franklin's interest in architecture and pride in the beauty of his home city we find in a para para- paragraph paragraph paragraph graph from a London newspaper in 1779 says the North American Re Re- Review Review Review view Doctor Franklin has recommend recommend- recommended ed to congress to beautify Phila Phila- Philadelphia Philadelphia Philadelphia delphia all the improvements adopted in London within these 20 years in respect to lighting watch watch- watching watching watching ing and paving Likewise to mod mod- modernize modernize modernize the roofs of the houses to slate them and new sash them in inthe inthe inthe the present English manner He has also sent them the ingredients of newly invented stucco advising them to face all their brick brick- brickwork brickwork brickwork work with it As Philadelphia has the most regular plan and the finest streets of any city in the world ac ac- accompanied accompanied ac- ac accompanied companied with the noblest rivers in inthe inthe inthe the universe trade and the curios curios- curiosity curiosity ity it of rich Europeans will render it the wealthiest town that ever e e st- st isted ed for which purpose great encouragement encouragement encouragement will be given to a school of architecture that their buildings may be beautiful and not like Lon Lon- London London London don ill placed Their first attempts will be a church equal if not su su- superior superior su- su superior to St. St Peters Peter's at Rome with walls so thick as to admit of the dome being all stone which St. St Pauls Paul's in London should have been No sculpture or paintings are to be introduced but what shall be adapt adapt- adapted ed to the architecture and as fine fineas fineas fineas as those in St. St Peters Peter's in Rome It Itis Itis Itis is the hope that the philosophers philosopher's zeal will stimulate England to im im- improvements improvements im- im improvements of equal consequence |