Architecture, men, women and money in America, 1600-1860 / by Roger G. Kennedy.

Main entry:

Kennedy, Roger G.

Title & Author:

Architecture, men, women and money in America, 1600-1860 / by Roger G. Kennedy.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Description:

xvi, 526 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 489-497) and index.
Part I, The Atlantic Progression: Stepping Ashore -- Palladio and the Plantation -- Sugar, Slaves and Architecture -- Dutch Colonial -- The Caribbean Cottage -- Part II, Going Ashore to Stay Ashore: Transitional Architecture Ashore -- Anglo-Dutch Provincial -- Home and Land -- Yankees and West Indians -- Charleston -- Savannah: William Jay and Robert Mills -- An Upcountry Boomtown -- Part III, The Classic Period: Speculators, Stagecraft and Statecraft -- Classic in Context -- Nicholas Biddle -- Mobile and Yankee Classicism -- The Halifax Whigs -- Part IV, Across the Mountains: Orpheus Observed -- The Carter Mansion -- The Legitimate Succession -- Cotton Pull -- Pericles and Tara -- Elegance and Terror: The Wade Hamptons -- Natchez, and the Nutts -- Samuel Sloan and the Octagon -- Building Longwood -- Part V, Pivot Point: Hellenism in the North -- Solid Citizens in Indiana -- Salt Pork, Railroads and War -- The American Picturesque -- Minnesota Gothic -- The Career of William Gates LeDuc -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Notes -- index.

Summary:

A study of American domestic architecture before the Civil War, as seen from the point of view of the wealthy patrons who commissioned the great houses, presents an original economic and cultural history of the United States.

ISBN:

0394535790
9780394535791

Subject:

Architecture, Colonial United States.
Architecture United States History 19th century.
Architects and patrons United States.
Architecture United States 18th century.
Architecture États-Unis 17e siècle.
Architecture coloniale États-Unis.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Architectes et mécènes États-Unis.
Architecture États-Unis 18e siècle.
Architects and patrons.
Architecture.
Architecture, Colonial.
Architektur
Architekt
Bauherr
Hausbau
Geschichte (1600-1860)
United States.
USA

Form/genre:

History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 112209
Call No.: ID:86-B2481
Status: Available

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