Main entry:

Williams, Henry Lionel, 1894-1974, author.

Title & Author:

A treasury of great American houses / by Henry Lionel Williams and Ottalie K. Williams.

Edition:

[First edition].

Publication:

New York : Putnam, [1970]

Description:

295 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 32 cm

Notes:
Wilton: from world's end to Windsor farms (Richmond, Virginia) -- The Lindens: doubled in size, trebled in beauty (Litchfield, Connecticut) -- The Davenport house: a modified post-revolutionary Georgian (Savannah, Georgia) -- Braeburn: a twentieth-century educator's dream house (Nashville, Tennessee) -- The William Gibbes House: a revolutionary Georgian classic (Charleston, South Carolina) -- The Frank G. Strachan house: a Southern classical masterpiece (New Orleans, Louisiana) -- Mayowood: home of a dynasty of doctors (Rochester, Minnesota) -- House-on-hill: eclectic interior behind a sixteenth-century façade (Hillsborough, California) -- Gore Place: a Federal in New England (Waltham, Massachusetts) -- Bayou Bend: A Latin classic with period rooms (Houston, Texas) -- The Minissale residence: an American Tudor palazzo (Denver, Colorado) -- The Hay house: Italian Renaissance of the 1850's (Macon, Georgia) -- Marble House: American Renaissance in excelsis (Newport, Rhode Island) -- The Alsop House: a neo-classical mansion unique in design and decoration (Middletown, Connecticut) -- The Read House: Federal grace plus Georgian charm (New Castle, Delaware) -- The Thomas-Jencks-Gladding House: an astonishing mid-nineteenth-century city survival (Baltimore, Maryland) -- Westbury House: an eighteenth-century English manor on Long Island (Old Westbury, New York) -- The President's House: classical design for modern living (Athens, Georgia) -- Stan Hywet: Renaissance England in the Midwest (Akron, Ohio) -- Filoli: the house of flowers (San Mateo, California) -- The Hammond-Harwood House: William Buckland's masterpiece (Annapolis, Maryland) -- Oatlands: a nostalgic Federal with Adam touches (Leesburg, Virginia) -- The Vanderbilt mansion: Italian Renaissance on the Hudson (Hyde Park, New York) -- Cherokee: Spanish-American classical (Natchez, Mississippi) -- Chinqua-Penn plantation house: gracious living in a jewel box (Reidsville, North Carolina) -- Eleutherian Mills: from Paris to the Brandywine (Greenville, Delaware) -- Rosedown: flower of the Felicianas (St. Francisville, Louisiana) -- Palmetto Hall: Begun 1846-transformed in 1962 (Mobile, Alabama) -- The Governor's palace: colonial center of sovereign power (Williamsburg, Virginia) -- Vouziers: French elegance in the great Midwest (Florissant, Missouri).

Summary:

Thirty of the most distinguished houses in the United States are described in with illustrations.

Subject:

Historic buildings United States.
Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architecture, Domestic.
Historic buildings.
United States.

Added entries:

Williams, Ottalie K. (Ottalie Kroeber), 1901-1994, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 14882
Call No.: ID:87-B15556
Status: Available