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Mantle Fielding, Jr. (September 30, 1865 – March 27, 1941) was an American architect, art historian, and tennis player.


Career

Fielding was born in Manhattan to Mantle Fielding (1837–1890) and Anne Margaret Stone (''maiden''; 1838–1906). He graduated from
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in 1883 and went on to study architecture at the Boston School of Technology (
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), reportedly for one year, likely between the fall of 1883 through the spring of 1884. In 1886, he began his career as an independent architect in Philadelphia. Fielding undertook over 200 works of architecture, mostly in the Philadelphia area for many different patrons. He also was a historian, biographer, and compiler of early American art, artists, and engravers – notably, his 1926 publication, ''Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors, and Engravers''. (see ', below)


Tennis; Grand Slam Finals – Mixed Doubles

Fielding competed in the
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and 1896 U.S National Tennis Championships and reached the finals of the mixed doubles events with his future wife
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. (see ', below)


Architectural work

Fielding's works include:
  1. 1891 – Fielding's own residence – "The Barn" – at 28 West Walnut Lane, Philadelphia, was a renovation by Fielding that was once the Wyck barn, built in 1796 by J. Frederick Thomas.
  2. 1892 – The Terry Building, 207 South Jefferson Street (at Campbell, southeast corner),
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    . A seven-story Italianesque stone and pressed-brick office building with a mansard roof, became the tallest building in Roanoke. Peyton Leftwich Terry (1835–1898) was the building's namesake. The building was razed in 1926 and, in its place, in 1927, the
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    building was erected.
  3. 1898 – The Boys' and Girls' Club, originally called the Boys Parlor Association, 23 West Penn Street, Germantown
  4. 1898 – Robert Early Strawbridge, Jr., Residence, "Meadow Lodge," Bryn Mawr, on the Main Line, which, as described by ''The New York Times,'' is a Tudor Country House on 47 acres with gardens, tennis courts, orchard, 17th century English style, half-timbered architecture, carved wood paneling, archways, lead
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    windows, fire places. The entrance is patterned after
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    's Great Hall. Thirty-two rooms.
  5. 1899 – The Charles Currie House (Charles Aitken Currie, MD; 1856–1937) at 50 West Walnut Lane in the
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    , in
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    . The district has been on the
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    since November 26, 1985, and is bounded by on the North by McCallum Street, on the East by West Walnut Lane, on the South by
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    railroad tracks, and the West by West Tulpehocken Street, in the Germantown neighborhood, bordering on the
    Colonial Germantown Historic District The Colonial Germantown Historic District is a designated National Historic Landmark District in the Germantown and Mount Airy neighborhoods of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania along both sides of Germantown Avenue. This road followed a Native Americ ...
    , a National Historic Landmark district. This house – named Comawaben (1899) – is a
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    mansion built in local in Wissahickon schist, that closely aligns with the original Georgian style, except for the large size of the building.
  6. 1902 – James E. Wheeler House (James Everett Wheeler; 1870–1954), lawyer, 82 Edge Hill Road,
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    , in the Prospect Hill Historic District (1902). His wife, Edith Pemberton Williams (1874–1953) was a 1st cousin of Fielding's wife, Amy Reeve Williams. The house is a 2-story structure with stucco façade.
  7. 1905 – The Tuleyries, White Post, Virginia – Graham Furber Blandy (1868–1926), a nephew of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, around 1905, acquired The Tuleyries, near White Post, Virginia, and adjacent lands totaling over 900 acres. Blandy hired Mantle Fielding to restore and improve the mansion. Upon Blandy's death, his widow, Georgette Haven Borland (''maiden''; 1886–1939) inherited part of the Tuleyries estate. The remainder of the estate was bequeathed to the
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    for an experimental farm. (see '' Blandy Experimental Farm'' and the '' Virginia State Arboretum'') Graham Blandy (class of 1885), his brother, Isaac Cruse Blandy (1866–1937) (class of 1883), and Fielding (class of 1884) had been students together at the
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    .
  8. 1906 – The Page Memorial Chapel, Riverside Cemetery, Oswego, New York. The Chapel was commissioned by descendants of Alanson Sumner Page (1825–1905) and Elsie A. Benson (''maiden''; 1835–1996). A stone structure, Fielding designed it in a Gothic Revival style. Frederick Wilson (1858–1932), a lead designer of
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    of New York City, designed the interior windows. The chapel stands at the entrance of the cemetery. The cemetery, in 1993, was designated on the list of
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    .
  9. 1915 – Abington YMCA, Abington Township
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Published work (chronological)

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Affiliations

* Walpole Society, member * T-Square Club, member, joined in 1886 * Art Club of Philadelphia, member *
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, member


Family

Fielding – on November 16, 1898, in Philadelphia – married Amy Reeve Williams (1872–1969). They had two children, Richard Mantle Fielding (1904–1974) and Frances (1906–1966), whose husband, Joseph Allison Scott, Jr. (1900–1959), was (i) a grandson of U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, John Scott (1824–1896) and (ii) nephew of American cricketer
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(1868–1907). Mantle Fielding and his wife lived in
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, for many years. Fielding, at age , died at his home in Chestnut Hill. His widow, Amy Fielding – on January 7, 1942, in
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– re-married, to
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Bibliography


Notes


References

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    1. Wistar Morris Residence, "Green Hill Farm" Overbrook (p. 75).
    2. Edward Varian Douglas Residence, 124 West Chestnut Hill Avenue, Chestnut Hill (p. 84).
    3. Walter Pearce Douglas Residence, 251 West Walnut Lane,
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      (p. 87).
    4. Robert Early Strawbridge, Jr., Residence "Meadow Lodge," Bryn Mawr (p. 90)
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      1. June 25–29, 1895.
      1. August 25–28, 1884.
      1. June 15–19, 1897
      Pennsylvania State Championships, Merion Cricket Club, Haverford.
      1. June 22–30, 1897.
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      1. August 21–24, 1883.
      2. August 25–28, 1884.
      3. August 18–21, 1885.
      4. August 23–28, 1886.
      5. August 23–28, 1886.
      6. August 22–30, 1887.
      7. August 20–25, 1888.
      8. August 21–28, 1889.
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      1. June 12–16, 1894.


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