Material witnesses : domestic architecture and plantation landscapes in early Virginia / Camille Wells.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wells, Camille, author.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture and society--Virginia--History--18th century.

Architecture and society.

Architecture, Colonial--Virginia--History--18th century.

Architecture, Colonial.

Domestic space--Virginia--History--18th century.

Domestic space.

History.

Virginia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 309 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2018]

Contents:

Recovering contours of a vanished Virginia

The eighteenth-century landscape of Virginia's Northern Neck

The planter's prospect : houses, outbuildings, and rural landscapes in eighteenth-century Virginia

Dower play/power play : Menokin and the ordeal of elite house building in colonial Virginia

Interior designs : room furnishings and historical interpretations at Colonial Williamsburg

Deliberation on display : contributions to a furnishing plan for the Octagon

Virginia by design : the making of Tuckahoe and the remaking of Monticello

The Matthew Jones House : architectural analysis and education at a colonial Virginia site

The multi-storied house : twentieth-century encounters with the domestic architecture of colonial Virginia.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780813940366

0813940362

9780813940373

0813940370

OCLC:

988171923