Main entry:

Folsom, Merrill.

Title & Author:

More great American mansions and their stories.

Publication:

New York, Hastings House [1967]

Description:

x, 276 pages illustrations 26 cm

Notes:
The Governor's Palace (Williamsburgh) -- Carter's Grove Plantation -- Blair House -- Woodrow Wilson's S Street house -- Fallingwater -- The Cutis-Lee Mansion -- Woodlawn Plantation -- The homes of William Byrd 2d, George Mason, and Fielding Lewis -- Berkeley Hundred Plantation -- Alexander W. Weddell's Virginia house -- James Monroe's cabin castle -- Addison Mizner's La Fontana -- The three homes of Marjorie Merriweather Post -- The Marble Mansion of Charles Ringling -- The monastery of St. Bernard -- A pair of casas -- Thomas A. Edison's Glenmont and Seminole homes -- White-columned parthenons -- The Juliet Gordon Low birthplace -- The hideaways of millionaire Robinson Crusoes -- A pageant of plantations -- The Daniel Turnbull's Rosedown -- Shadows-on-the-Teche -- San Francisco on the Mississippi -- The Beauregard house of Vieux Carre -- The Texas Governor's Mansion -- Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin West -- William Carson's redwood castle -- The pad of Edward L. Doheny, Jr. -- Two mansions for governors -- Lyndhurst, the home of Jay Gould -- Frederic Edwin Church's Olana -- Natalie Hays Hammond's country retreat -- Columbia University's Arden House -- The Ogden Mills residence -- Walter and Lucie Rosen's Caramoor -- Theodore Roosevelt's Sagamore Hill -- The John S. Phipps estate -- The Morris-Jumel mansion -- The Hamptons mansion of the Ridgelys -- The Chinqua-Penn plantation house -- Isabella Stewart Gardener's Fenway Court -- Christopher Gore's county home -- The marble palace revisited -- The Charles P. Taft adobe -- James J. Hills's romanesque mansion -- Charles H. Mayo's Mayowood.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Text and photographs present 47 American mansions, accompanied by stories of the people associated with them.

Subject:

Historic buildings United States.
Mansions United States.
Hôtels particuliers États-Unis.
Historic buildings.
Mansions.
United States.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 75060
Call No.: ID:92-B2400
Status: Available