Great houses of American history, by Andrew H. Hepburn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hepburn, Andrew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historic buildings--United States.

Historic buildings.

United States.

Physical Description:

244 pages illustrations (some color) 32 cm

Edition:

[1st ed.].

Place of Publication:

New York, C.N. Potter; distributed by Crown Publishers [©1972]

Contents:

I. Prehistoric dwellings

Cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde, Colorado

Acoma

The Sky City, New Mexico

Taos Pueblo, New Mexico

Casa Grande, Arizona

II. Spanish settlers

Oldest house, St. Augustine, Florida

Palace of Governors, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Vallejo houses, California.

III. Settlers of the Eastern seaboard

Van Cortlandt Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, New York

Philipsburg Manor, Upper Mills, New York

Berkeley Plantation, Virginia

Stratford Hall, Robert E. Lee Birthplace, Virginia

George Washington Birthplace, Virginia

Tryon Palace, New Bern, North Carolina.

IV. Patriots and founders of a new nation

Adams House, Quincy, Massachusetts

Paul Revere House, Boston, Massachusetts

Monticello, Thomas Jefferson Home, Charlottesville, Virginia

Mount Vernon, George Washington Home, Virginia

George Wythe House, Williamsburg, Virginia

V. Pioneers and frontier dwellers

Beehive House, Brigham Young Home, Salt Lake City, Utah

Grouseland, William Henry Harrison Home, Vincennes, Indiana

The Heritage, Andrew Jackson Home, Nashville, Tennessee

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace, Hodgenville, Kentucky

McGuffey Birthplace, Dearborn, Michigan

Booker T. Washington Birthplace, Virginia

Kit Carson Home, Taos, New Mexico

Sutter's Fort, Sacramento, California.

VI. Civil War Period homes

Lee Mansion, Arlington, Virginia

Abraham Lincoln Home, Springfield, Illinois

White House of the Confederacy, Richmond, Virginia

McLean House, Appomattox, Virginia

House where Lincoln died, Washington, D.C.

VII. Homes of writers, artists, inventors

Sunnyside, Washington Irving Home, Tarrytown, New York

Mark Twain House, Hartford, Connecticut

Chesterwood, Daniel Chester French Home, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Glenmont, Thomas Edison Home, West Orange, New Jersey.

VIII. Empire builders and leaders of men

Theodore Roosevelt Homes

Birthplace, New York City

Sagamore Hill Home, Oyster Bay, New York

Biltmore House, George W. Vanderbilt Home, Asheville, North Carolina

Ca' D' Zan, John Ringling Home, Sarasota, Florida

Franklin D. Roosevelt Birthplace, Hyde Park, New York

The Enchanted Hill, William Randolph Hearst Home, San Simeon, California

Carson Mansion, Eureka, California.

OCLC:

387296