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American buildings and their architects / William H. Pierson, Jr.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press, 1976- c1970-Description: v. (503p.) : ill. ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0385061239 (v. 1) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.973 PIE 23 3480
LOC classification:
  • NA705 .P5 1976
Incomplete contents:
v. 1. The colonial and neo-classical styles.--v. 2. Technology and the picturesque. --v. 3. Progressive and academic ideals at the turn of the twentieth century.--v. 4. The impact of European modernism in the mid-twentieth century.
Summary: e pre-Civil War architecture of the nineteenth century was marked by the development of two distinct styles: the "corporate," which originated in the chaste, brick buildings of early Boston, and the "early Gothic Revival," which brought new vitality to American religious and domesticarchitecture. Pierson traces the evolution of these styles in the works of Ithiel Town, Richard Upjohn, James Renwick, A.J. Davis, and Andrew Jackson Downing.
Item type: Book
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Vols. 3-4 by W. H. Jordy.

Reprint of the ed. published by Doubleday, Garden City, N.Y.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

v. 1. The colonial and neo-classical styles.--v. 2. Technology and the picturesque. --v. 3. Progressive and academic ideals at the turn of the twentieth century.--v. 4. The impact of European modernism in the mid-twentieth century.

e pre-Civil War architecture of the nineteenth century was marked by the development of two distinct styles: the "corporate," which originated in the chaste, brick buildings of early Boston, and the "early Gothic Revival," which brought new vitality to American religious and domesticarchitecture. Pierson traces the evolution of these styles in the works of Ithiel Town, Richard Upjohn, James Renwick, A.J. Davis, and Andrew Jackson Downing.

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