This project was designed for the patriarch of a  large and prominent Philadelphia family who is an avid historian of Colonial America. He wished for open-air pavilion following the design principals of Andres Palladio, the 16^th century Italian architect whose style was popular in early American architecture and was the basis for many of the great buildings of that time.

The pavilion is sited on a slight rise reached by a gracious set of steps. Two other steps rise into the pavilion itself where a granite bench is placed for quietude and reflection. The pavilion has arms extending to the edge of the site embracing the three underground vaults containing family ancestor remains.

The pavilion was designed using Palladio’s harmonic proportional system based on the Tuscan Order, “the most simple and plain of all the orders in architecture, because it retains something of the former antiquity, and is deprived of those ornaments that make the others so slightly and beautiful.” Starting with the basic module of the diameter of the column at the base, the column rises 7 modules to the collarino where the column width has diminished by a quarter.

The stone for the project is Barre Granite from Vermont where it was fabricated by the Rock of Ages Company. The largest piece delivered to the site was the 40 ton single piece base for the pavilion.