Title & Author:

Artistic houses : being a series of interior views of a number of the most beautiful and celebrated homes in the United States : with a description of the art treasures contained therein.

Publication:

New York : Printed for the subscribers by D. Appleton and Company, 1883-1884.

Description:

2 volumes in 4 : 203 illustrations ; 51 cm

Notes:
"Edition limited to 500 copies"--Half title leaf
Text generally attributed to George William Sheldon (cf. The opulent interiors of the Gilded Age. New York : Dover, ©1987, p. v-vi).
Vol. 1: [8], 184 p., [100] leaves of plates; v. 2: [5], 184, [7] p., [103] leaves of plates.
The ill. are reproductions of photographs.
Attributed to George William Sheldon (cf. The opulent interiors of the Gilded Age. New York : Dover, c1987, p. v-vi).
Limited ed. of 500 copies.
Vol. 1, pt. 1. Mr. Louis C. Tiffany's rooms -- Mrs. A.T. Stewart's House -- General Grant's house -- Mr. David L. Einstein's house -- Mr. George F. Baker's house -- Judge Henry Hilton's house -- Mr. Frederick F. Thompson's house -- Mr. George Kemp's house -- Mr. F.W. Hurtt's house -- Mrs. John A. Zerega's house -- Mrs. Oswald Ottendorfer's Pavilion -- Mr. W.G. Dominick's house -- Mr. J. Pierpoint Morgan's house -- Mr. Edward n. Dickerson's house.
Vol. 1, pt. 2. Dr. William A. Hammond's house -- Mr. W.H. De Forest's house -- Mr. F.W. Steven's house -- Mr. W.H. Vanderbilt's house -- Mr. Charles Stewart Smith's house -- Mr. Egerton Winthrop's rooms -- Mr. John T. Martin's house -- Mr. William Clark's house -- Mr. Henry C. Gibson's house -- Mrs. Bloomfield Moore's house -- Mr. George W. Child's houses -- Mr. Rudolph Ellis's house -- Mr. C.H. Clark's house -- Dr. E.H. Williams's house -- Mr. William M. Singerly's rooms -- Mr. James V. Claghorn's house -- Mrs. James Harper's house -- Mr. H. Victor Newcomb's house.
Vol 2, pt. 1. Mr. H. Victor Newcomb's house at Elberon -- Mr. Bradley Martin's house -- Mr. Walter Hunnewell's house -- Mr. J.C. Phillips' house -- Mr. E. Rolland Morse's house -- Mr. Robert Treat Paine's (Jr.) house -- Mr. C.H. Joy's house -- Mr. Hollis Hunnewell's house -- Mrs. D.N. Spooner's house -- Mr. Henry J. Willing's house -- Mr. J. Coleman Drayton's house -- Mr. Marshall Field's house -- Mr. S.M. Nickerson's house -- Mr. John W. Doane's house -- Governor Tilden's house, Gramercy Park -- Governor Tilden's house, Greystone -- Mr. Samuel Colman's house -- Mr. O.D. Munn's house -- Mr. William Russell's house -- Mr. E.E. Chase's house -- Mr. Robert Goelet's house -- Mr. George Peabody Wetmore's house -- Mr. H.G. Marquand's house -- Mrs. Robert L. Stuart's house -- Mr. Samuel P. Hinckley's house -- Hon. Hamilton Fish's house -- The White House -- Mr. Jacob Ruppert's house -- Mr. J.H. Shoenberger's house.
Library copy: no. 184. Printed for Mr. Edward H. Kendall, New York; ownership stamps of "General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen, 'Kendall Collection'" (1 stamped "Withdrawn GSMT 1976/77").

Resources:
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Subject:

Architecture, Domestic United States.
Interior architecture United States.
Interior decoration United States.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architecture intérieure États-Unis.
Décoration intérieure États-Unis.
Architecture, Domestic.
Interior architecture.
Interior decoration.
United States.

Added entries:

Sheldon, George William, 1843-1914.
Kendall, Edward Hale, 1842-1901
Provenance. General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen of the City of New York. Kendall Collection. Ownership stamp.

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 210084
Call No.: NA7207 .S5 1883
Copy: v. 1
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 210085
Call No.: NA7207 .S5 1883
Copy: v. 2
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 210086
Call No.: NA7207 .S5 1883
Copy: v. 3
Status: Available

Location: Library main m 210087
Call No.: NA7207 .S5 1883
Copy: v. 4
Status: Available