Main entry:

Folsom, Merrill.

Title & Author:

Great American mansions and their stories.

Publication:

New York, Hastings House [1963]

Description:

ix, 310 pages illustrations, portraits 26 cm

Notes:
Vizcaya, the pleasure dome of James Deering, Miami, Florida -- Henry Morrison Flagler's Marble Casa, Palm Beach, Florida -- John Ringling's Ca' d' Zan, Sarasota, Florida -- Taliesin North, the home of Frank Lloyd Wright, Spring Green, Wisconsin -- A galaxy under the guns of Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina -- Tryon Palace, New Bern, North Carolina -- George W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore, Asheville, North Carolina -- Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia --Stratford Hall, the birthplace of Robert E. Lee, Westmoreland County, Virginia -- George Washington's mansion house farm, Mt. Vernon, Virginia -- The White House-a montage, Washington, D.C. -- Henry F. Du Pont's Winterthur, New Castle County, Delaware -- Hubert T. Parson's Shadow Lawn, West Long Branch, New Jersey -- Henry Clay Frick's Sanctuary, New York City, New York -- Andrew W. Mellon's home, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania -- William Randolph Hearst's La Cuesta Encantada, San Simeon, California -- Death Valley Scotty's Castle, Grapevine Canyon, California -- Henry E. Huntington's Treasure-trove, San Marino, California -- Iolani, built by the merry monarch, Honolulu, Hawaii -- Walter D. Bellingrath's abode, Theodore, Alabama -- The river-front pageant, Natchez, Mississippi -- The Hermitage of Andrew Jackson, Nashville, Tennessee -- William Gillette's Castle, Hadlyme, Connecticut -- The home of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Hyde Park, New York -- Frederick W. Vanderbilt's Hudson Valley Castle, Hyde Park, New York -- John D. Rockefeller's Kykuit, Pocantico Hills, New York -- Washington Irving's Snuggery, Frederick Philipse's Castle and Stephanus Van Cortlandt's Manor House, Tarrytown, North Tarrytown and Croton-on-Hudson, New York --Boscobel, the mansion of States Morris Dyckman, Garrison, New York --Ben Holladay's Ophir Hall, Purchase, New York -- Harry Davis Sleeper's Beauport, Gloucester, Massachusetts -- John Adams's Peacefield, Quincy, Massachusetts -- Joseph Starbuck's houses, Nantucket, Massachusetts -- "Cottages" of the elite, Newport, Rhode Island -- The Breakers of Cornelius Vanderbilt, Newport, Rhode Island -- Oliver H.P. Belmont's Belcourt Castle, Newport, Rhode Island -- Ogden Goelet's Ochre Court, Newport, Rhode Island -- Swan J. turnblad's Chateau, Minneapolis, Minnesota -- The home of Samuel M. Nickerson, Chicago, Illinois -- George C. boldt's Castle, Alexandria Bay, New York -- Frank A. Seiberling's Stan Hywet Hall, Akron, Ohio -- Henry ford's Fair Lane, Dearborn, Michigan -- The abodes of Edsel B. Ford and Alfred G. Wilson, Grosse Pointe Shores and Rochester, Michigan.

Summary:

A survey including information for the sight-seeing tourist about how and when the mansions and their treasures may now be visited.

Subject:

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

Holdings:

Location: Library main 72070
Call No.: ID:86-B11808
Status: Available

Location: Library main 72071
Call No.: 597; ID:86-B11808
Status: Available