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[[underlined]] Belfield, near Germantown [[/underlined]]. (1780)

Belfield, the house and garden of Charles Wilson Peale, the portrait painter and naturalist, lies on the outskirts of Germantown. It still keeps the feeling of the country although it is so near the city.

[[underlined]] 62. [[/underlined]] Peale developed this estate from a hundred acre farm, laying out his garden with box-bordered walks, shaded by lilacs, and having many ornamental features, summer houses, arches and pools. The slide, which is made from an old painting, probably by Peale himself, shows many of these features. Peale built a greenhouse which still stands, and in it are many old plants which may have been the ones with which he brightened the edges of his paths in summer. Shortly after 1823 the place came into the hands of the Wister family. Its is now owned by Mrs. Sarah Logan Wister Starr, who has made every effort to preserve the original planting design.

[[underlined]] 63. [[/underlined]] One of the garden houses designed by Peale and still standing in the garden. Upon his various garden features he inscribed sentiments, "To keep myself in a proper Temper", he wrote in his journal.

[[underlined]] Andulasia, Philadelphia. [[/underlined]] (1794)

The main portion of Andalusia was built in 1794-5 by John Craig as a summer residence for his wife and daughter. The latter became Mrs. Nicholas Biddle and the place is still in the hands of the Biddle family.

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[[underlined]] 64. [[/underlined]] In 1833 the "Big House" with its Grecian porticoes was built,

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