Architects to the nation : the rise and decline of the Supervising Architect's Office / Antoinette J. Lee with a foreword by William Seale.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Antoinette J. (Antoinette Josephine), author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of the Treasury. Office of Supervising Architect.

Public buildings--United States--Designs and plans.

Public buildings.

Local Subjects:

United States. Department of the Treasury. Office of Supervising Architect.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 336 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This text traces the evolution and accomplishments of the office, that from 1852 until 1939 held a virtual monopoly over federal building design.

Contents:

Foreword; Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Prelude; 2 No Blueprint for the New Nation, 1789-1851; 3 The Bureau of Construction and the Corps of Engineers, 1852-1865; 4 Alfred B. Mullett, 1866-1874; 5 The Supervising Architect's Office in the Gilded Age, 1875-1894; 6 The Tarsney Act, Its Passage and Postponement in Implementation, 1893-1896; 7 Proponents of ""Academic Classicism," 1895-1925; 8 The Public Buildings Program in Eras of Affluence and Depression, 1926-1939; Epilogue: 1940-Present; Notes; Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028449-8

0-19-771144-8

1-280-53043-X

0-19-535186-X

1-4294-0135-4

OCLC:

133162230