Shingle styles : innovation and tradition in American architecture, 1874 to 1982 / photography by Bret Morgan ; text by Leland M. Roth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roth, Leland M.

Contributor:

Morgan, Bret.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Domestic--Shingle style.

Architecture, Domestic.

Architecture--United States--History--19th century.

Architecture.

United States.

History.

Architecture--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Norfleet Press : Harry N. Abrams, 1999.

Summary:

This volume, through magnificent color photography and engaging, informative text, celebrates one of America's most original and beautiful architectural idioms -- the Shingle Style. Thirty of the nation's finest examples of Shingle architecture are strikingly portrayed here -- from McKim, Mead & White's casino in Newport, Rhode Island, to Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio in Oak Park, Illinois, to Julia Morgan's Sausalito Woman's Club in Sausalito, California.

As the book's introduction reveals, the Shingle Style originated as a vigorous and eloquent expression of the American Colonial Revival in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. As the privileged classes of a newly industrialized society pursued leisure activities and relaxation, the Shingle Style became the architecture of those able to get away to the shore, to the hills, and to hotels and country clubs.

During this period, ambitious patrons commissioned prominent American architects, most trained in the classical Beaux-Arts tradition, to design these retreats. Their goal was an informal yet elegant architecture inspired by the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century country houses that dotted the New York and New England landscape. As the style reached maturity by the turn of the century, architects incorporated, often into a single building, influences as diverse as Queen Anne and Arts and Crafts from England and traditional Japanese design.

During the twentieth century, other sources emerged to enliven the style -- Craftsman, Bungalow, Prairie School, and, most recently, Post Modernism. Despite the diversity of influences, the finest Shingle Style buildings, as demonstrated here, have a compelling and unifying theme: the poetic interplay of light, space, and form.

Other prominent architects with landmark structures featured here are Bernard Maybeck, Henry Hobson Richardson, Greene & Greene, Ernest Coxhead, John Calvin Stevens, William Ralph Emerson, Charles Alonzo Rich, and Wilson Eyre. To demonstrate both the vitality and endurance of the Shingle Style, the book's final section includes houses by such contemporary architects as Joseph Esherick, Robert A. M. Stern, and Robert Venturi. Collectively, the designers whose work is featured in Shingle Styles represent an important cross-section of distinguished American architects of the last 125 years.

Shingle Styles is for architects, designers, historians, preservationists, and anyone who wishes to learn more about this remarkable and uniquely American architecture.

Bret Morgan's interest in the Shingle Style began with childhood glimpses of aged snapshots of his great-uncle Robert's vanished summer house on the New Jersey shore. He conceived of Shingle Styles as the culmination of this interest. He was the exclusive photographer for the landmark book The Architecture of the Shakers, and is currently at work on Worlds Away: The Great American Resorts. He divides his time between New York and San Francisco.

Contents:

Watts Sherman House, Newport, Rhode Island Henry Hobson Richardson, 1874-76 40

Newport Casino, Newport, Rhode Island McKim, Mead & White, 1879-81 44

Kingscote Dining Room, Newport, Rhode Island McKim, Mead & White, 1880-81 50

Isaac Bell House, Newport, Rhode Island McKim, Mead & White, 1881-83 57

Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, Long Island Lamb & Rich, 1883 62

Stonehurst, Waltham, Massachusetts Henry Hobson Richardson, 1883-86 68

Naumkeag, Stockbridge, Massachusetts McKim, Mead & White, 1884-87 81

Charles Lang Freer House, Detroit, Michigan Wilson Eyre, 1890 90

Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, Vermont Robert Henderson Robertson, 1885-1902 94

Hotel del Coronado, Coronado, California James and Merritt Reid, 1886-88 108

Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio Oak Park, Illinois Frank Lloyd Wright, 1889-1914 116

Fairmont Cemetery Chapel, Spokane, Washington Kirtland K. Cutter, 1890 120

Ernest Coxhead's House, San Francisco, California Ernest Coxhead, 1893 124

St. John's Church, Petaluma, California Ernest Coxhead, 1890-91 130

Felsted, Deer Isle, Maine William Ralph Emerson, 1896 134

First Unitarian Church, Berkeley, California A. C. Schweinfurth, 1898 140

Gignoux Cottage, Portland, Maine John Calvin Stevens, 1905-6 144

Grayoaks, Ross, California Bernard Maybeck, 1906 150

Gamble House, Pasadena, California Greene & Greene, 1908-9 156

"The Airplane House," Woods Hole, Massachusetts Purcell & Elmslie, 1911-12 166

John Galen Howard House, Berkeley, California John Galen Howard, 1912 172

John S. Thomas House, Berkeley, California William C. Hays, 1914 176

Guy Hyde Chick House, Oakland, California Bernard Maybeck, 1914 180

Sausalito Woman's Club, Sausalito, California Julia Morgan, 1917 186

Timberline Lodge, Mount Hood, Oregon William Turner, 1936-38 192

The Fourest, Kentwoodlands, California Joseph Esherick, 1957 201

Flinn House, East Hampton, New York Jaquelin Robertson, 1978-79 206

Lawson House, East Quogue, New York Robert A. M. Stern, 1979-81 212

Petrie House, Wainscott, New York Robert Venturi, 1982 216

Kragsyde, Swan's Island, Maine Beyor & Goodrich, after Peabody & Stearns, 1982- 224.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-233) and index.

ISBN:

0810944774

OCLC:

40830118