Essays in early American architectural history : a view from the Chesapeake / Carl R. Lounsbury.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lounsbury, Carl.

Contributor:

Wunsch, Aaron V., Former owner.

Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Standardized Title:

Selections. 2011

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--United States--History.

Architecture.

United States.

History.

Genre:

Authors' inscriptions.

Physical Description:

ix, 268 pages : illustrations, map ; 26 cm

Other Title:

View from the Chesapeake

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville [Va.] : University of Virginia Press, 2011.

Contents:

Introduction. Reshaping the study of early American architecture

The origins of early American architecture. Early American architecture : a transatlantic perspective

Adaptation and innovation : archaeological and architectural

Perspectives on the seventeenth-century Chesapeake

The English origins of the Jamestown rowhouses

The design and building process. "An elegant and commodious building" : William Buckland and the design of the Prince William County Courthouse

The dynamics of architectural design in eighteenth-century Charleston and the low country

Regional building patterns : ecclesiastical architecture. Anglican church design in the Chesapeake : English inheritances and regional interpretations

Christ Church, Savannah : loopholes in metropolitan design on the frontier

"Building is a heavy burden" : the legacy of eighteenth-century church building in the Middle Atlantic colonies

God is in the details : the transformation of ecclesiastical architecture in early-nineteenth-century America

Williamsburg. Ornaments of civic aspiration : the public buildings of Williamsburg

Beaux-arts ideals and colonial reality : the reconstruction of Williamsburg's capitol, 1928-1934

The changing perceptions of the restoration of colonial Williamsburg.

Notes:

First published 2011; First paperback edition published 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Martin and Margy Meyerson Endowment Fund for the Built Environment.

Athenaeum circulating copy: From the Library of Aaron V. Wunsch; Inscribed on title page: "To Aaron and Jillian / with best wishes -- Carl Lounsbury"

ISBN:

081393110X

9780813931104

OCLC:

699379226

Publisher Number:

99947765413