Editing Society Hill (section)

== Architecture ==

Society Hill contains one of America's finest collections of 18th and 19th-century residential architecture:

=== Colonial Era (1700s) ===

* Georgian townhouses
* Brick construction with painted shutters
* Narrow footprints, multiple stories
* Interior courtyards and gardens

=== Federal Era (early 1800s) ===

* More refined classical details
* Larger windows
* Elegant doorways
* Marble stoops

=== Society Hill Towers ===

The '''Society Hill Towers''' (1964), designed by I.M. Pei, added three modernist high-rise apartment towers. Initially controversial, they are now recognized as significant modern architecture that coexists with the historic fabric.

=== Urban Renewal Townhouses ===

New townhouses built during urban renewal were designed to complement historic architecture:
* Similar scale and materials
* Contemporary interpretation of traditional forms
* Maintained streetscape continuity