Robert Smith : architect, builder, patriot, 1722-1777 / Charles E. Peterson with Constance M. Greiff and Maria M. Thompson ; foreword by Robert Venturi.

Main entry:

Peterson, Charles E. (Charles Emil), 1906-2004.

Title & Author:

Robert Smith : architect, builder, patriot, 1722-1777 / Charles E. Peterson with Constance M. Greiff and Maria M. Thompson ; foreword by Robert Venturi.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : Athenaeum of Philadelphia, 2000.

Description:

x, 164 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Robert Smith was the most important and influential architect-builder in the American colonies. His major buildings were ornaments of Philadelphia, where he lived. But his reputation also brought him commissions from as far away as Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Shrewsbury, New Jersey, and Williamsburg, Virginia. Among his accomplishments were the steeple of Christ Church (1753-54), Nassau Hall at Princeton (1754-56), St. Peter's Church (1758-61), Zion Lutheran Church (1766-69), the Walnut Street Jail (1773-74), and Benjamin Franklin's House (1763-65). This book illuminates the role of the architect in the eighteenth century as designer and supervisor of construction, including the form of the contracts he signed and the difficulties he encountered in collecting his fees.

ISBN:

0916530175
9780916530174

Subject:

Smith, Robert, 1722-1777.
Architects United States Biography.
Architecture, Georgian United States.
Architectes États-Unis Biographies.
Architecture Georgian États-Unis.
Architects.
Architecture, Georgian.
United States.

Form/genre:

Biographies.

Added entries:

Smith, Robert, 1722-1777.
Greiff, Constance M.
Thompson, Maria M.
Venturi, Robert
Athenaeum of Philadelphia

Holdings:

Location: Library main 219400
Call No.: NA44.S658.9 P4 2000
Status: Available

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