Title & Author:

Re-creating the American past : essays on the colonial revival / edited by Richard Guy Wilson, Shaun Eyring, and Kenny Marotta.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.

Description:

vii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: What is the colonial revival? / Richard Guy Wilson -- The persistence of the colonial revival : The Long and Unsuccessful Effort to Kill Off the Colonial Revival / William B. Rhoads -- Colonial revivalists : Consumed by the Past-Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America / Thomas Andrew Denenberg ; Candace Wheeler and the New Old-Fashioned House / Jean Dunbar ; Jens Fredrick Larson and Colonial Revival / Rod A. Miller ; Ellen Biddle Shipman’s Colonial Revival Garden Style / Judith B. Tankard -- The role of the federal government : The Architecture of Efficiency-The U.S. Army and the Colonial Revival Style in the West / Alison K. Hoagland ; A “Portrait of a Nation”-The Role of the Historic American Buildings Survey in the Colonial Revival / Annie Robinson ; The Mills Connection-Colonial Revival and Institutional Survival in the 1930s / Sara A. Butler ; The American Parkway as Colonial Revival Landscape / Timothy Davis -- Preservation practices and the colonial revival : Reviving Colonials and Reviving as Colonial / Betsy Hunter Bradley ; Colonial Georgetown-The Power of Myth / Eve L. Barsoum ; “One of the Fairest Spots on the Atlantic Coast”-The Colonial Revival and Long Island’s Modernization, 1880-1942 / Joshua Ruff ; George Washington Birthplace National Monument-Provenance of a Colonial Revival Commemorative Landscape / Elizabeth Sargent -- Replicas : Virginia House-The Reconstruction of Social and Historical Narratives / Jacqueline Taylor ; The Marie Zimmermann House-Engaging Dutch Colonial History in Situ / David F. Tipson and Thomas E. Solon ; Creating a “Dignified Home”-Richard Henry Dada Jr. and the New York Headquarters of the National Society of Colonial Dames, 1928-1930 / Pauline C. Metcalf ; “For the Children Out Here”-Recreating the Gardens of Mount Vernon on the Bluffs of the Missouri River in Omaha, Nebraska / James R. Hill ; Louis Bromfield’s Big House at Malabar Farm-Form Follows Fiction / Barbara Powers -- Interiors : The Concept of Hand Production in Colonial Revival Interiors / Marilyn Casto ; Advertising Gentility-Ovals and Mass Market Women’s Magazines / Natalie Fizer and Glenn Forley ; “To Keep Up the Delusion”-Henry W. Longfellow’s House and Furnishings and the Colonial Revival / Sarah H. Heald -- Translations of the colonial revival : Sunny Spain or Our Algeria-The Other Colonial Revival / Barbara Burlison Mooney ; American Colonial Homes Migrate to France / Isabelle Gournay -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0813923484 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780813923482 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Colonial revival (Architecture)
National characteristics, American, in art.
Architecture United States History 19th century.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Néo-colonial (Architecture)
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture.
Kolonialstil
Bouwstijlen.
7.150.
United States.
USA.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Wilson, Richard Guy, 1940-
Eyring, Shaun.
Marotta, Kenny.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 249980
Call No.: NA710.5.C65 R4 2006
Status: Available