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Flint House

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1978–1980, Robert Venturi for Venturi and Rauch. Center Meeting Rd. north of intersection with Pyles Ford Rd., east of Centreville
  • (University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives)
  • (University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives)
  • (University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives)
  • (University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives)
  • (University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives)
  • (University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives)
  • (University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives)

This small country house tucked into rolling, unspoiled countryside was built for a grandson of Irénée du Pont. Ostensibly it is a gabled Pennsylvania farmhouse of white clap-boards and shingle roof, but Venturi overlaid cutout forms of Doric columns and a huge arch masking a windowed gable. A high-ceilinged music room with organ was given a latticed groin vault with what were described as “Carpenter-Gothic proportions”—another series of cutouts. Big windows in the breakfast area allowed the owners to birdwatch. The Postmodern approach earned a Progressive Architecture Honor Award in 1980 and looked ahead to Venturi's burst of public commissions starting in the 1980s (see Trabant Center, NK9.14).

Writing Credits

Author: 
W. Barksdale Maynard
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What's Nearby

Center Friends Meeting House
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Citation

W. Barksdale Maynard, "Flint House", [Wilmington, Delaware], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/DE-01-CH7.

Print Source

Cover: Buildings of Delaware

Buildings of Delaware, W. Barksdale Maynard. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008, 59-59.

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