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Architecture, men, women and money in America, 1600-1860 / by Roger G. Kennedy.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection NA707 .K38 1985
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kennedy, Roger G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--United States.
- Architecture.
- Architecture, Colonial--United States.
- Architecture, Colonial.
- Architecture--United States--History--19th century.
- Architects and patrons--United States.
- Architects and patrons.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 526 p. : ill., plans, ports. ; 26 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Random House, c1985.
- Contents:
- Part I. The Atlantic progression. Stepping ashore
- Palladio and the plantations
- Sugar, slaves, and architecture
- Dutch Colonial
- The Caribbean cottage
- Part II. Going ashore to stay ashore. Transitional architecture ashore
- Anglo-Dutch Provincial
- Home and land
- Yankees and West Indians
- Charleston
- Savannah: William Jay and Robert Mills
- An upcountry boomtown
- Part III. The classic period. Speculators, stagecraft and statecraft
- Classic in context
- Nicholas Biddle
- Mobile and Yankee classicism
- The Halifax Whigs
- Part IV. Across the mountains. Orpheus observed
- The Carter Mansion
- The legitimate succession
- Cotton pull
- Pericles and Tara
- Elegance and terror: the Wade Hamptons
- Natchez, and the Nutts
- Samuel Sloan and the Octagon
- Building Longwood
- Part V. Pivot point. Hellenism in the North
- Solid citizens in Indiana
- Salt port, railroads and war
- The American Picturesque
- Minnesota Gothic
- The career of William Gates LeDuc.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Book designed by Anita Karl.
- Jacket designed by Loretta Lieva.
- Bibliography: p. 489-497.
- ISBN:
- 0394535790 :
- OCLC:
- 13107001
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