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| Keywords: Sweetbriar Mansion perspective view from west.jpg 39 976876 -75 201195 Sweetbriar Mansion located in west w Fairmount Park at 1 Sweetbriar Drive Philadelphia PA 19131<br>Building/structure dates 1797 initial construction subsequent work 1870 1929 1975<br>Significance Samuel Breck a merchant with a future in state and national politics built Sweetbrier in 1797 Like other Philadelphians in his social and financial position Breck wished to escape the city's late 18th century yellow fever epidemic and could afford to commission a stately house upriver in one of the neighboring locales However despite resemblance to villas in the area Sweetbrier was not a seasonal retreat but the Breck family's full-time residence In order to create Fairmount Park the City of Philadelphia purchased Sweetbrier and surrounding properties during the mid 19th century The benefits of a sylvan landscape that had once attracted exclusive private development were thus extended to the public at large Library of Congress Prints Photographs Online Catalog http //loc gov/pictures/item/pa0924/ HABS PA 51-PHILA 396-11 1995-08 Creator Jack Boucher PA 51-PHILA 396-11 PD-USGov Strawberry Mansion Built in Pennsylvania in 1797 Houses built in the United States in 1797 1790s houses in Pennsylvania Stone houses in Pennsylvania Federal architecture in Pennsylvania Sweetbriar Mansion Jack Boucher | ||||
