Architecture, Men, Women and Money in America, 1600-1860

Book

Historic Charleston Foundation

Name/Title

Entry/Object ID

2016.002.068

Description

Contents: The Atlantic Progression: Stepping ashore -- Palladio and the plantations -- Sugar, slaves and architecture -- Dutch Colonial -- The Caribbean cottage) Going Ashore to Stay Ashore (Transitional architecture ashore -- Anglo-Dutch Provincial -- Home and land -- Yankees and West Indians -- Charleston -- Savannah: William Jay and Robert Mills -- An upcountry boomtown) The Classic Period (Speculators, stagecraft and statecraft -- Classic in context -- Nicholas Biddle -- Mobile and Yankee classicism -- The Halifax Whigs) Across the Mountains (Orpheus observed -- The Carter mansion -- The legitimate succession -- Cotton pull -- Pericles and Tara -- Elegance and terror: the Wade Hamptons -- Natchez, and the Nutts -- Samuel Sloan and the Octagon -- Building Longwood) Pivot Point (Hellenism in the north -- Solid citizens in Indiana -- Salt pork, railroads and war -- The American picturesque -- Minnesota Gothic -- The career of William Gates LeDue) Charleston chapter features George Eveleigh House, Cabbage Row/Catfish Row, Brick House on Edisto Island, Miles Brewton House, Joseph Manigault House xvi, 526 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Collection

Historic Charleston Foundation Library

Acquisition

Accession

2016.002

Source or Donor

New Library Catalog Records (2016)

Acquisition Method

Found in Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Book

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

Search Terms

Architecture--United States, Architecture, Colonial--United States, Architecture, Modern--19th century--United States, Architects and patrons--United States

Book Details

Author

Kennedy, Roger G.

Edition

1st ed.

Publisher

Random House

Place Published

Location

New York, NY

Date Published

1986

Call No.

NA707 .K38 1985

ISBN

0394535790

LCCN

842054

Notes

Copy No.: 0

Location

Building

Missroon Library

Date

February 7, 2023

General Notes

Note

Notes: By Roger G. Kennedy. Includes bibliographical references (p. 489-497) and index.

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Create Date

November 30, 2016

Updated By

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Update Date

December 1, 2016