Samuel Sloan: Biography, Architectural Work (partial Listing), Books, Gallery, and a List of Books by Author Samuel Sloan

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Samuel Sloan (7 March 1815 — 19 July 1884) was a Philadelphia-based architect and best-selling author of architecture books in the mid-19th century. He specialized in Italianate villas and country houses, churches, and institutional buildings. His most famous building...the octagonal mansion "Longwood" in Natchez, Mississippi...is unfinished; construction was abandoned during the American Civil War.

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Born on March 7, 1815, in Honeybrook Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania, the son of William Sloan and Mary Kirkwood, Sloan trained as a carpenter and came to Philadelphia in the mid-1830s. He is said to have worked with John Haviland on Eastern State Penitentiary and with Isaac Holden on the former Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane.

Samuel Sloan married Mary Pennell in 1843. Their children were Ellwood Pennell, Howard L., Laura W., and Ada. He had three grandchildren by his eldest son, Ellwood. They were Maurice, Helen and Samuel A. Sloan.

By 1851, Sloan had won a commission for the Delaware County, Pennsylvania, courthouse and jail, and designed Andrew Eastwick's villa near the site of Bartram's Garden in Philadelphia. These successes prompted him to begin to list his vocation as "architect".

Sloan became a prolific author on architecture most notably for The Model Architect as well as City and Suburban Architecture and Sloan's Constructive Architecture (1859). In 1861, he wrote Sloan's Homestead Architecture and American Houses, and A Variety of Designs for Rural Buildings. Sloan also reached thousands of potential customers through the pages of Godey's Lady's Book, which began publishing his designs in 1852.

"The man who has a home," wrote Sloan in 1871, "feels a love for it a thankfulness for its possession and a proportionate determination to uphold and defend it against all invading influences. Such a man is, of necessity . . . a good citizen; for he has a stake in society."

Economic downturns in the late 1850s as well as the American Civil War put a halt to his professional success and Sloan briefly left Philadelphia for New York in 1867. Important examples of his later work are found outside Pennsylvania, notably in Morganton, North Carolina's Western State Asylum for the Insane. Sloan ended up building about 20 hospitals for the insane based on the "Kirkbride Plan System".

Sloan enjoyed some later success in North Carolina, opening an office in Raleigh, where he died on July 19, 1884. His body was buried in Mount Moriah Cemetery, Philadelphia, Lot 11 Sec 20.

Architects associated with Sloan include: Charles M. Autenrieth (1828-1906), Edward Collins (1821-1902), Willis G. Hale (1848-1907), Addison Hutton (1834–1916), John S. Stewart and Thomas Webb Richards (1836–1911).

Sloan designed three buildings that have since been designated U.S. National Historic Landmarks:

Asa Packer Mansion, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania (1859-61)
"Longwood", Haller Nutt Mansion, Natchez, MS (designed in 1859, it was never finished due to the Civil War)
Additions to Mills Building, South Carolina State Hospital, Columbia, South Carolina

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Philadelphia buildings

"Bartram Hall", residence of Andrew M. Eastwick, 54th St. & Lindburgh Blvd., Philadelphia PA — 1850 (demolished)
Workman’s Housing Rows (2), in association with Joseph Harrison, Jr., Philadelphia, PA - 1853
John Piper house, 129 Bethlehem Pike, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA - 1854
Joseph Harrison Jr. residence, 221 S. 18th St. (East Rittenhouse Square), Philadelphia, PA - 1855 (demolished)
Masonic Hall, 700 block Chestnut St., Philadelphia - 1855, burned 1886
Episcopal Church of the Savior, 38th & Chestnut Sts., Philadelphia, PA - 1856 (destroyed by fire 1902, rebuilt within surviving stone walls)
Institute of the Pennsylvania Hospital, Department for Males (Kirkbride's Insane Asylum), 49th & Market Sts., Philadelphia - 1856-59
Polite Temple Baptist Church (Germantown), Philadelphia — date not known
"Woodland Terrace", 501-519, 500-520 Woodland Terrace, Philadelphia, PA; suburban development built for Charles M. S. Leslie - 1861

Other Pennsylvania buildings

Delaware County Courthouse, Media, PA (considered his first commission) - 1849
Chester County municipal buildings — 1849
Lancaster County Court House, Lancaster, PA - 1852
Fulton Opera House, (Originally named Fulton Hall), Lancaster, PA - 1852
Residence, NE corner of Church & Miner Sts., West Chester, PA — 1854
The High Street School, Gettysburg, PA - 1857
Asa Packer Mansion, Jim Thorpe, PA - 1859-61
"Faunbrook", residence of William Baldwin, 699 Rosedale Ave., West Chester, PA — 1860
(Old) Lycoming County Courthouse (destroyed), Williamsport, PA - 1861
Eli Slifer house, 1 River Rd., Lewisburg, PA — 1861
Venango County Courthouse, Franklin, PA (with Addison Hutton) - 1868
Clinton County Courthouse, Lock Haven, PA (with Addison Hutton) - 1869
East Hall (The Academy Building), Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster, PA — 1872
Forks of the Brandywine Presbyterian Church, Glenmoore, PA - 1875
Westmoreland County Courthouse, Greensburg, PA - 1883

New Jersey and Delaware buildings

Town Plan, Riverton, NJ - 1851
St Paul’s Methodist Episcopal Church, Odessa, DE - 1852
Camden County Court House, Camden, NJ — 1852
Sheriff's House and Jail, 2nd St., New Castle, DE - 1857
Dr. Peter Campbell house, Shrewsbury, NJ - c.1860
George Allen house, 720 Washington St. Cape May, NJ — 1863 (based on a published Sloan design)
West Presbyterian Church, NE corner W. Commerce & Giles Sts., Bridgeton, NJ - 1868-1877
Town Hall, Middletown, DE — 1869
Additions to New Jersey State Capitol (new wings), Trenton, NJ - 1871
Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital, (a Kirkbride Plan building), Morristown, NJ — 1871

Buildings elsewhere

The Southern Ohio Lunatic Asylum; Dayton, Ohio - 1852
“Winter Place”, residence of Col. Joseph Samuel Winter, Montgomery, AL - 1855
"Dunleith", residence of Robert P. Dick, 677 Chestnut St., Greensboro, NC - 1856
First Baptist Church, 101 W. McBee Ave., Greenville, SC - 1858
“Longwood”, Haller Nutt mansion, Natchez, MS — 1859-1862 (unfinished)
First Baptist Church, 5th & Market Streets, Wilmington, NC — 1859-1870
Bank of New Hanover (demolished), NW corner Front & Princess Sts., Wilmington NC — circa 1860
First Presbyterian Church, 125 S. 3rd St., Wilmington, NC — 1861 (destroyed by fire in 1925, the present building is by architect Hobart Upjohn)
”McNeal Place”, Bolivar, TN — 1862
Bryce Hospital, (a Kirkbride Plan building), Tuscaloosa, AL - 1861 (endangered)
Sylvan Building (Central National Bank), 1500 Main St., Columbia, SC — circa 1868
Broughton State Hospital, (aka Western North Carolina Insane Asylum; a Kirkbride Plan building), Morganton, NC — 1883
North Carolina Executive Mansion, 201 N. Blount St , Raleigh, NC; (completed by his associate Adolphus Bauer) - 1883
Bell Building (New Bern Graded School), 517 Hancock St., New Bern, NC - c. 1884-85
(Old) Memorial Hall (demolished), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC — completed 1885
Walker Hall, South Carolina School for the Deaf and Blind, Spartanburg County, SC - 1884-1885
New South Carolina State Asylum; Babcock Building at the South Carolina State Hospital, Richland County, Bull St., Columbia, SC - 1885

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Total Books: 18

American Houses a Variety of Original Designs for Rural Buildings [1861] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781120144195
ISBN-10: 1120144191
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Aqedath Jishaq a Sixteenth Century Yiddish Epic with Introduction and Notes (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9784871872270
ISBN-10: 4871872270
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Reference, Religion & Spirituality, Christian Books & Bibles

The Architectural Review V1 Part 2 and American Builders' Journal [1869] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781120962942
ISBN-10: 1120962943
Genre: Literature & Fiction

City and Suburban Architecture [Architecture and Decorative Art Ser.] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780306707452
ISBN-10: 0306707454

Electrotherapy in Gynecology [1918] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9781120821447
ISBN-10: 1120821444
Genre: Literature & Fiction

Homestead Architecture (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781142331115
ISBN-10: 1142331113

Homestead Architecture (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781150288425
ISBN-10: 1150288426

The Model Architect a Series of Original Designs for Cottages VIllas Suburban Residences Etc [Volume 1] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780923891855
ISBN-10: 0923891854
Genre: Crafts, Hobbies & Home

The Model Architect a Series of Original Designs for Cottages VIllas Suburban Residences Etc [Volume 2] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780923891862
ISBN-10: 0923891862
Genre: Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Model Architect [Da Capo Press Series in Architecture and Decorative Art] (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780306707469
ISBN-10: 0306707462
Genres: Crafts, Hobbies & Home, Engineering & Transportation

Sloan S Architecture (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781153396509
ISBN-10: 1153396505

Sloane's VIctorian Buildings [2 Vols in 1] (Hardcover)

Sloan's Architecture the Late Georgian Period (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781406770261
ISBN-10: 1406770264

Sloan's Homestead Architecture (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781143607493
ISBN-10: 114360749X

Sloan's Homestead Architecture [1861] (Paperback) → Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780217552554
ISBN-10: 0217552552

Sloan's Homestead Architecture [1870] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780217995313
ISBN-10: 0217995314

Sloan's Homestead Architecture Containing Forty Designs for VIllas Cottages and Farm Houses with Essays on Style Construction Landscape Gardening Furniture Etc Etc (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781142134754
ISBN-10: 114213475X

Sloan's VIctorian Buildings Illustrations and Floor Plans for 60 Residences and Other Structures Reprint of the 18523 Ed Pub in 2vols Under Title (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780486240091
ISBN-10: 0486240096
Genres: Arts & Photography, Engineering & Transportation