Sweetbriar

Built in 1797 by Philadelphia merchant Samuel Breck, Sweetbriar was the year-round home of the Breck family. Breck was intimately involved in the development of the city of Philadelphia during the early 1800s and was active in the founding of a public school system. Sweetbriar's neoclassical architectural style and interior furnishings reflect the new fashion of its era based on designs from ancient Greece and Rome.