Houses of the Berkshires : 1870-1930 / Richard S. Jackson, Jr. and Cornelia Brooke Gilder ; foreword by Samuel G. White.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Richard S.

Contributor:

Gilder, Cornelia Brooke.

White, Samuel G.

Series:

Architecture of leisure

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Country homes--Massachusetts--Berkshire Hills--History--19th century.

Country homes.

Country homes--Massachusetts--Berkshire Hills--History--20th century.

Architecture, Domestic--Massachusetts--Berkshire Hills.

Architecture, Domestic.

Resort architecture--Massachusetts--Berkshire Hills.

Resort architecture.

Berkshire Hills (Mass.)--Buildings, structures, etc.

Berkshire Hills (Mass.).

Physical Description:

310 p. : ill., plans, ports. ; 32 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Acanthus Press, 2006.

Summary:

Houses include: Tanglewood, Bonnie Brae, Windyside, Oakwood, Gusty Gables, Allen Winden, Coldbrook, Merrywood, Sunnyridge, The Homestead, Naumkeag, Deepdene, Elm Court, Kellogg Terrace, Erskine Park, Belvoir Terrace, Ventfort Hall, Wheatleigh, Wyndhurst, Shadow Brook, Lakeside, Bellefontaine, Chesterwood, The Mount, Valleyhead, Blantyre, Overlee, Pine Needles, Spring Lawn, Groton Place, Brookhurst, High Lawn, Eastover, Ashintully, and Stonover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-301) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Architects and firms mentioned include: Adams & Warren; E. Maitland Armstrong; Henry Bacon; Henry Forbes Bigelow; Ernest W. Bowditch; Brett & Hall; Burnett & Hopkins; Carrere & Hastings; James Frederick Dawson; Delano & Aldrich; Beatrix Jones Farrand; Carl Fehmer; Charles Coolidge Haight; Harding & Seaver; Hoppin & Koen; Guy Lowell; McKim, Mead & White; Frederick Law Olmstead; Peabody & Stearns; Bruce Price; John Philipp Rinn; Robert Henderson Robertson; Rotch & Tilden; Fletcher Steele; George Edwin Waring, Jr.; and H. Neill Wilson.

Athenaeum copy: Greenfield fund bookplate.

ISBN:

092649435X (alk. paper)

9780926494350