Architects to the nation : the rise and decline of the Supervising Architect's Office / Antoinette J. Lee ; with foreword by William Seale.

Main entry:

Lee, Antoinette J. (Antoinette Josephine)

Title & Author:

Architects to the nation : the rise and decline of the Supervising Architect's Office / Antoinette J. Lee ; with foreword by William Seale.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

Description:

xvi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-325) and index.
Foreword / William Seale -- Prelude -- No blueprint for the new nation, 1789-1851 -- The Bureau of Construction and the Corps of Engineers, 1852-1865 -- Alfred B. Mullett, 1866-1874 -- The Supervising Architect's Office in the Gilded Age, 1875-1894 -- The Tarsney Act, its passage and postponement in implementation, 1893-1896 -- Proponents of "Academic Classicism," 1895-1925 -- The public buildings program in eras of affluence and depression, 1926-1939 -- Epilogue: 1940.
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Summary:

"Architects to the Nation provides the first comprehensive history of the Office of the Supervising Architect, the organization that designed federal government buildings from the early 1850s to the late 1930s. Author Antoinette J. Lee examines the evolution of the Office, traces its creative output, and describes the public relations battles between the government architects and the architects in private practice.
The result is a unique and authoritative study of the nation's efforts to achieve an appropriate civic architecture."--Jacket.

Resources:
2000.
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0195128222 (acid-free paper)
9780195128222 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

United States. Department of the Treasury. Office of Supervising Architect.
Public buildings United States Designs and plans.
Bâtiments publics États-Unis Dessins et plans.
Public buildings
Overheidsgebouwen.
Architectenbureaus.
Instellingen.
Public facilities.
United States

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
Designs and plans.
Architectural drawings

Added entries:

Seale, William, writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 212137
Call No.: NA4421 .L4 2000
Status: Available

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