{"history":[],"article":{"id":"4d0c2e3e-0936-48fc-a34f-ce0e3d040c91","title":"Mantle Fielding","slug":"mantle-fielding","content":":::summary\n:::\n\n# \n**Mantle Fielding, Jr.** (September 30, 1865 – March 27, 1941) was an American architect, art historian, and tennis player.\n\n# Career\nFielding was born in Manhattan to Mantle Fielding (1837–1890) and Anne Margaret Stone (maiden; 1838–1906).\nHe graduated from [Germantown Academy](https://bliptext.com/articles/germantown-academy) in 1883 and went on to study architecture at the [Boston School of Technology](https://bliptext.com/articles/boston-school-of-technology) ([MIT](https://bliptext.com/articles/massachusetts-institute-of-technology)), reportedly for one year, likely between the fall of 1883 through the spring of 1884.\nIn 1886, he began his career as an independent architect in Philadelphia.\nFielding undertook over 200 works of architecture, mostly in the Philadelphia area for many different patrons.\nHe 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.\n(see , below)\n\n# Tennis; Grand Slam Finals – Mixed Doubles\nFielding competed in the [1895](https://bliptext.com/articles/1895-u-s-national-championships-tennis) and [1896 U.S National Tennis Championships](https://bliptext.com/articles/1895-u-s-national-championships-tennis) and reached the finals of the mixed doubles events with his future wife [Amy Williams](https://bliptext.com/articles/amy-williams-tennis).\n(see , below)\n\n# Architectural work\nFielding's works include:\n

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.

1892 – The Terry Building, 207 South Jefferson Street (at Campbell, southeast corner), [Roanoke, Virginia](https://bliptext.com/articles/roanoke-virginia).\nA seven-story Italianesque stone and pressed-brick office building with a [mansard roof](https://bliptext.com/articles/mansard-roof), became the tallest building in Roanoke.\nPeyton Leftwich Terry (1835–1898) was the building's namesake.\nThe building was [razed](https://bliptext.com/articles/demolition) in 1926 and, in its place, in 1927, the [Colonial National Bank](https://bliptext.com/articles/colonial-national-bank-roanoke-virginia) building was erected.

1898 – The Boys' and Girls' Club, originally called the Boys Parlor Association, 23 West Penn Street, Germantown

1898 – [Robert Early Strawbridge, Jr.](https://bliptext.com/articles/robert-early-strawbridge-jr), Residence, \"Meadow Lodge,\" [Bryn Mawr](https://bliptext.com/articles/bryn-mawr-pennsylvania), on the [Main Line](https://bliptext.com/articles/philadelphia-main-line), which, as described by The New York Times, is a [Tudor](https://bliptext.com/articles/tudor-architecture) Country House on 47 acres with gardens, tennis courts, orchard, 17th century English style, [half-timbered](https://bliptext.com/articles/timber-framing) architecture, carved wood paneling, archways, lead [mullioned](https://bliptext.com/articles/mullion) windows, fire places.\nThe entrance is patterned after [Windsor Castle](https://bliptext.com/articles/windsor-castle)'s Great Hall.\nThirty-two rooms.

1899 – The Charles Currie House (Charles Aitken Currie, MD; 1856–1937) at 50 West Walnut Lane in the [Tulpehocken Station Historic District](https://bliptext.com/articles/tulpehocken-station-historic-district), in [Philadelphia](https://bliptext.com/articles/philadelphia).\nThe district has been on the [National Register of Historic Places](https://bliptext.com/articles/national-register-of-historic-places) 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 [Penn Central](https://bliptext.com/articles/penn-central-transportation-company) railroad tracks, and the West by West Tulpehocken Street, in the Germantown neighborhood, bordering on the [Colonial Germantown Historic District](https://bliptext.com/articles/colonial-germantown-historic-district), a National Historic Landmark district.\nThis house – named Comawaben (1899) – is a [Georgian Revival](https://bliptext.com/articles/georgian-revival) mansion built in local in [Wissahickon schist](https://bliptext.com/articles/wissahickon-schist), that closely aligns with the original Georgian style, except for the large size of the building.

1902 – James E. Wheeler House (James Everett Wheeler; 1870–1954), lawyer, 82 Edge Hill Road, [New Haven, Connecticut](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-haven-connecticut), in the [Prospect Hill Historic District](https://bliptext.com/articles/prospect-hill-historic-district-new-haven-connecticut) (1902).\nHis wife, Edith Pemberton Williams (1874–1953) was a 1st cousin of Fielding's wife, Amy Reeve Williams.\nThe house is a 21/2-story structure with [stucco](https://bliptext.com/articles/stucco) façade.

1905 – [The Tuleyries](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-tuleyries), [White Post, Virginia](https://bliptext.com/articles/white-post-virginia) – Graham Furber Blandy (1868–1926), a nephew of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, around 1905, acquired [The Tuleyries](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-tuleyries), near [White Post, Virginia](https://bliptext.com/articles/white-post-virginia), and adjacent lands totaling over 900 acres.\nBlandy hired Mantle Fielding to restore and improve the mansion.\nUpon Blandy's death, his widow, Georgette Haven Borland (maiden; 1886–1939) inherited part of the Tuleyries estate.\nThe remainder of the estate was bequeathed to the [University of Virginia](https://bliptext.com/articles/university-of-virginia) for an experimental farm.\n(see [Blandy Experimental Farm](https://bliptext.com/articles/blandy-experimental-farm-historic-district) and the [Virginia State Arboretum](https://bliptext.com/articles/orland-e-white-research-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 [Germantown Academy](https://bliptext.com/articles/germantown-academy).

1906 – The Page Memorial Chapel, [Riverside Cemetery](https://bliptext.com/articles/riverside-cemetery-oswego-new-york), [Oswego, New York](https://bliptext.com/articles/oswego-new-york).\nThe Chapel was commissioned by descendants of Alanson Sumner Page (1825–1905) and Elsie A. Benson (maiden; 1835–1996).\nA stone structure, Fielding designed it in a [Gothic Revival](https://bliptext.com/articles/gothic-revival-architecture) style.\n[Frederick Wilson](https://bliptext.com/articles/frederick-wilson-artist) (1858–1932), a lead designer of [Tiffany Studios](https://bliptext.com/articles/tiffany-studios) of New York City, designed the interior windows.\nThe chapel stands at the entrance of the cemetery.\nThe cemetery, in 1993, was designated on the list of [National Register of Historic Places](https://bliptext.com/articles/national-register-of-historic-places).

1915 – Abington YMCA, [Abington Township](https://bliptext.com/articles/abington-township-montgomery-county-pennsylvania)

\n\n# Published work (chronological)\n\n# Affiliations\n\n# Family\nFielding – on November 16, 1898, in Philadelphia – married Amy Reeve Williams (1872–1969).\nThey 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](https://bliptext.com/articles/john-scott-pennsylvania-politician-born-1824) (1824–1896) and (ii) nephew of American cricketer [Walter Scott](https://bliptext.com/articles/walter-scott-american-cricketer) (1868–1907).\nMantle Fielding and his wife lived in [Germantown, Philadelphia](https://bliptext.com/articles/germantown-philadelphia), for many years.\nFielding, at age 75, died at his home in [Chestnut Hill](https://bliptext.com/articles/chestnut-hill-philadelphia).\nHis widow, Amy Fielding – on January 7, 1942, in [Bala Cynwyd](https://bliptext.com/articles/bala-cynwyd-pennsylvania) – re-married, to [John Duncan Spaeth](https://bliptext.com/articles/john-duncan-spaeth) (1868–1954), an academician.","current_revision":null,"created_by":"kACnuQmH5k9Nr5VNVEpVeg7XpvUmMctD","created_at":"2025-01-26T09:30:17.559Z","updated_at":"2025-01-26T09:30:17.559Z","search_vector":"'field':2 'mantl':1","search_content":" \n \n\n# \n**Mantle Fielding, Jr.** (September 30, 1865 – March 27, 1941) was an American architect, art historian, and tennis player.\n\n# Career\nFielding was born in Manhattan to Mantle Fielding (1837–1890) and Anne Margaret Stone (maiden; 1838–1906).\nHe graduated from [Germantown Academy](https://bliptext.com/articles/germantown-academy) in 1883 and went on to study architecture at the [Boston School of Technology](https://bliptext.com/articles/boston-school-of-technology) ([MIT](https://bliptext.com/articles/massachusetts-institute-of-technology)), reportedly for one year, likely between the fall of 1883 through the spring of 1884.\nIn 1886, he began his career as an independent architect in Philadelphia.\nFielding undertook over 200 works of architecture, mostly in the Philadelphia area for many different patrons.\nHe 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.\n(see , below)\n\n# Tennis; Grand Slam Finals – Mixed Doubles\nFielding competed in the [1895](https://bliptext.com/articles/1895-u-s-national-championships-tennis) and [1896 U.S National Tennis Championships](https://bliptext.com/articles/1895-u-s-national-championships-tennis) and reached the finals of the mixed doubles events with his future wife [Amy Williams](https://bliptext.com/articles/amy-williams-tennis).\n(see , below)\n\n# Architectural work\nFielding's works include:\n 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. \n 1892 – The Terry Building, 207 South Jefferson Street (at Campbell, southeast corner), [Roanoke, Virginia](https://bliptext.com/articles/roanoke-virginia).\nA seven-story Italianesque stone and pressed-brick office building with a [mansard roof](https://bliptext.com/articles/mansard-roof), became the tallest building in Roanoke.\nPeyton Leftwich Terry (1835–1898) was the building's namesake.\nThe building was [razed](https://bliptext.com/articles/demolition) in 1926 and, in its place, in 1927, the [Colonial National Bank](https://bliptext.com/articles/colonial-national-bank-roanoke-virginia) building was erected. \n 1898 – The Boys' and Girls' Club, originally called the Boys Parlor Association, 23 West Penn Street, Germantown \n 1898 – [Robert Early Strawbridge, Jr.](https://bliptext.com/articles/robert-early-strawbridge-jr), Residence, \"Meadow Lodge,\" [Bryn Mawr](https://bliptext.com/articles/bryn-mawr-pennsylvania), on the [Main Line](https://bliptext.com/articles/philadelphia-main-line), which, as described by The New York Times, is a [Tudor](https://bliptext.com/articles/tudor-architecture) Country House on 47 acres with gardens, tennis courts, orchard, 17th century English style, [half-timbered](https://bliptext.com/articles/timber-framing) architecture, carved wood paneling, archways, lead [mullioned](https://bliptext.com/articles/mullion) windows, fire places.\nThe entrance is patterned after [Windsor Castle](https://bliptext.com/articles/windsor-castle)'s Great Hall.\nThirty-two rooms. \n 1899 – The Charles Currie House (Charles Aitken Currie, MD; 1856–1937) at 50 West Walnut Lane in the [Tulpehocken Station Historic District](https://bliptext.com/articles/tulpehocken-station-historic-district), in [Philadelphia](https://bliptext.com/articles/philadelphia).\nThe district has been on the [National Register of Historic Places](https://bliptext.com/articles/national-register-of-historic-places) 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 [Penn Central](https://bliptext.com/articles/penn-central-transportation-company) railroad tracks, and the West by West Tulpehocken Street, in the Germantown neighborhood, bordering on the [Colonial Germantown Historic District](https://bliptext.com/articles/colonial-germantown-historic-district), a National Historic Landmark district.\nThis house – named Comawaben (1899) – is a [Georgian Revival](https://bliptext.com/articles/georgian-revival) mansion built in local in [Wissahickon schist](https://bliptext.com/articles/wissahickon-schist), that closely aligns with the original Georgian style, except for the large size of the building. \n 1902 – James E. Wheeler House (James Everett Wheeler; 1870–1954), lawyer, 82 Edge Hill Road, [New Haven, Connecticut](https://bliptext.com/articles/new-haven-connecticut), in the [Prospect Hill Historic District](https://bliptext.com/articles/prospect-hill-historic-district-new-haven-connecticut) (1902).\nHis wife, Edith Pemberton Williams (1874–1953) was a 1st cousin of Fielding's wife, Amy Reeve Williams.\nThe house is a 21/2-story structure with [stucco](https://bliptext.com/articles/stucco) façade. \n 1905 – [[The Tuleyries](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-tuleyries)](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-tuleyries), [[White Post, Virginia](https://bliptext.com/articles/white-post-virginia)](https://bliptext.com/articles/white-post-virginia) – Graham Furber Blandy (1868–1926), a nephew of Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, around 1905, acquired [[The Tuleyries](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-tuleyries)](https://bliptext.com/articles/the-tuleyries), near [[White Post, Virginia](https://bliptext.com/articles/white-post-virginia)](https://bliptext.com/articles/white-post-virginia), and adjacent lands totaling over 900 acres.\nBlandy hired Mantle Fielding to restore and improve the mansion.\nUpon Blandy's death, his widow, Georgette Haven Borland (maiden; 1886–1939) inherited part of the Tuleyries estate.\nThe remainder of the estate was bequeathed to the [University of Virginia](https://bliptext.com/articles/university-of-virginia) for an experimental farm.\n(see [Blandy Experimental Farm](https://bliptext.com/articles/blandy-experimental-farm-historic-district) and the [Virginia State Arboretum](https://bliptext.com/articles/orland-e-white-research-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 [Germantown Academy](https://bliptext.com/articles/germantown-academy). \n 1906 – The Page Memorial Chapel, [Riverside Cemetery](https://bliptext.com/articles/riverside-cemetery-oswego-new-york), [Oswego, New York](https://bliptext.com/articles/oswego-new-york).\nThe Chapel was commissioned by descendants of Alanson Sumner Page (1825–1905) and Elsie A. Benson (maiden; 1835–1996).\nA stone structure, Fielding designed it in a [Gothic Revival](https://bliptext.com/articles/gothic-revival-architecture) style.\n[Frederick Wilson](https://bliptext.com/articles/frederick-wilson-artist) (1858–1932), a lead designer of [Tiffany Studios](https://bliptext.com/articles/tiffany-studios) of New York City, designed the interior windows.\nThe chapel stands at the entrance of the cemetery.\nThe cemetery, in 1993, was designated on the list of [National Register of Historic Places](https://bliptext.com/articles/national-register-of-historic-places). \n 1915 – Abington YMCA, [Abington Township](https://bliptext.com/articles/abington-township-montgomery-county-pennsylvania) \n\n# Published work (chronological)\n\n# Affiliations\n\n# Family\nFielding – on November 16, 1898, in Philadelphia – married Amy Reeve Williams (1872–1969).\nThey 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](https://bliptext.com/articles/john-scott-pennsylvania-politician-born-1824) (1824–1896) and (ii) nephew of American cricketer [Walter Scott](https://bliptext.com/articles/walter-scott-american-cricketer) (1868–1907).\nMantle Fielding and his wife lived in [Germantown, Philadelphia](https://bliptext.com/articles/germantown-philadelphia), for many years.\nFielding, at age 75, died at his home in [Chestnut Hill](https://bliptext.com/articles/chestnut-hill-philadelphia).\nHis widow, Amy Fielding – on January 7, 1942, in [Bala Cynwyd](https://bliptext.com/articles/bala-cynwyd-pennsylvania) – re-married, to [John Duncan Spaeth](https://bliptext.com/articles/john-duncan-spaeth) (1868–1954), an academician.","revisionCount":0},"hasMore":false,"nextCursor":null}

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