Furness Designed the John Christian Bullitt House at Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Furness Designed the John Christian Bullitt House at Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Audlyn
John Christian Bullitt House, Included Stable and Gardener’s Cottage. Cobblestone Drive, Paoli, Pennsylvania.
Designed by the architecture firm of Frank Furness–Furness, Evans & Co., Architects, 2154, the eminent Philadelphia Architect, “Levi Focht, the builder of the Reading Railroad station, was in charge of construction. The flaring shingled skirt over the first-floor rough stone base, the vertical proportions and the great square chimneys emerge as the Furness accommodation to the shingle style, bu the warm red-brown of the round river stone, the sculptural massing of the building and the expressive fenestration link it to the ongoing office manner. The bedroom over the porte cochere recalls the Shipley country house of a earlier generation. Across the street, a stable with gardner’s residence also survives with some modifications.”
John Christian Bullitt, the eminent Philadelphia lawyer, author of the city charter–the Bullitt Bill, commissioned the summer place in 1900. Bullitt died two years later, in August 1902, at the house. His funeral services were held at Audlyn–a special train ran from the Broad Street Station in Philadelphia, direct to Paoli, for those attending the funeral. Another train was chartered to remove his body from his summer place to Laurel Hill Cemetery.
