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Philadelphia circa 1908. "Hamilton Court -- front interior court." Our second look at these imposing apartments. 8x10 inch glass negative, Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
This view demostrates well the lack of symmetry in the design: the tower block on the left is essentially square in plan, whereas the right is a rectangle; there's also a porte cochere only on the right. The latter fact is explained, somewhat, by the floor plan posted yesterday -- there are dining rooms there (suggesting it was built as an apartment hotel rather than a strict apartment house) -- but its it's unusual not to have carried a balanced layout in the upper floors. If Messrs Milligan and Webber wanted to make people ask "why?" they succeeded -- 120 years later I'm asking.
Well, the original layout was all well and good if you want a nice open space to look at and the ability to maybe drive a small vehicle near your front door to quickly load and unload people or heavy items in bad weather. But that doesn't make any money!
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