{"id":699,"date":"2009-02-20T03:01:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=699"},"modified":"2021-06-19T01:56:57","modified_gmt":"2021-06-19T01:56:57","slug":"more-on-the-skyline-farm-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanootoday.com\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"More on the Skyline farm house"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

UPDATE 2021: This is bonus content on Skyline; the longer, overall article on this line of buildings was included in my book on OO. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ed Havens has a bit more information for us on the Skyline Washington\u2019s headquarters building. First, here again is the description in the 1948 Skyline catalog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No. 656. All Gauge Farm House. Exact model of Washington’s Valley Forge Headquarters. Pinkish rubble stone walls, brown roof. 8 1\/4″ x 5″ x 4 1\/2″ high. Price $1.00 each.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

One important point then is they marketed it as a farm house but also say it is an exact model of Washington\u2019s Valley Forge headquarters building. Is it, or did they maybe fib a bit for purposes of marketing? I will turn the rest of this post over to Ed, thank you for your looking into this further.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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After re-reading your American OO Today post on Skyline buildings, I decided to do some further Internet research about the prototype. I am led to conclude — based on photos and painting of General Washington’s various headquarters buildings in the Philadelphia era during the campaign against the British — that Skyline took some artistic license and made a composite (or perhaps the Shoenhut firm did before Skyline bought out their product line).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What’s interesting is that the stone on the Skyline Washington HQ is pinkish. In actuality, there was no such pink stone among any of the actual buildings used by the general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is Chadds Ford:
http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/aufuup<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the back of the same building:
http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/bz3k3l<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here is Valley Forge:
http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/bhdjb5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And Whitemarsh:
http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/crsbvv<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another Washington HQ was at Neshaminy:
http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/c47pxs<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I attached the set of four photos of the Skyline building for comparison. [two views are included with this post–John].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The only differently colored stone in the Philadelphia area — aside from the brown or gray appearance of most stone building materials — was serpentine rock, which had a greenish to olive cast. [More information on this stone may be found here.<\/a>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my projects in a high school art class was to sketch a serpentine faced house in Media, Pa. The teacher took the class on a walking field trip near the school and everyone got to choose some subject to sketch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The serpentine house was nicely done with gray Mansard roof, and green wooden trim. I have yet to find any pinkish stone that would replicate the Skyline model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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