Main entry:

Ierley, Merritt.

Title & Author:

Open house : a guided tour of the American home, 1637-present / Merritt Ierley.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Henry Holt and Co., 1999.

Description:

xiv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-306) and index.
Prologue: The House and American Life -- Ch. 1. The Genealogy of the House -- Ch. 2. The House A-Building -- Ch. 3. The House and the Coming of Technology -- Ch. 4. The House as a Reflection of a Changing Society -- Ch. 5. The Comfortable House -- Ch. 6. The House as Architecture -- App. 1. The Focus Houses -- App. 2. The American Home and the Emergence of Technology.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This study of the social, technological, and architectural evolution of the American house from the seventeenth to the twentieth century focuses on eighteen houses which are open to the public as house museums: Fairbanks House (Dedham, Mass.), Joshua Hempsted House (New London, Conn.), Schifferstadt (Frederick, Md.), Heyward-Washington House (Charleston, S.C.), George Read II House and Gardens (New Castle, Del.), Montgomery Place (Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.), Monticello (Charlottesville, Va.), Gore Place (Waltham, Mass.), Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.), Joseph Priestley House (Northumberland, Pa.), The Octagon (Washington, D.C.), Lindenwald (Kinderhook, N.Y.), Harriet Beecher Stowe House (Hartford, Conn.), David Davis Mansion (Bloomington, Ill.), Sinclair Lewis Boyhood Home (Sauk Center, Minn.), Wyck (Philadelphia, Pa.), Gropius House (Lincoln, Mass.), Pope-Leighey House (Mount Vernon, Va.).
An appendix gives technological profiles of more than one hundred homes.

ISBN:

0805048375 (hc ; acid-free paper)
9780805048377 (hc ; acid-free paper)

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic United States.
Architecture, Domestic United States 18th century.
Architecture, Domestic United States 19th century.
Architecture, Domestic United States 20th century.
Architecture domestique États-Unis.
Architecture domestique États-Unis 17e siècle.
Architecture domestique États-Unis 18e siècle.
Architecture domestique États-Unis 19e siècle.
Architecture domestique États-Unis 20e siècle.
Architecture, Domestic.
Architecture domestique Histoire États-Unis.
United States.
Houses United States 1630-2000.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 205816
Call No.: NA7205 .I3 1999
Status: Available