Main entry:

Thorndike, Joseph J. (Joseph Jacobs), 1913-2005.

Title & Author:

The magnificent builders and their dream houses / by Joseph J. Thorndike Jr. and the editors of American Heritage.

Publication:

New York : American Heritage Pub. Co. : Book trade distribution by Simon and Schuster, ©1978.

Description:

352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Issued in slipcase.
Rulers in search of glory: Louis XIV, Marie Antoinette, Henri Christophe, Philip II -- Kings for their pleasure: Hadrian, Diocletian, Ludwig II, George IV, Francis I -- Architects for themselves: Frank Lloyd Wright, Juan O'Gorman, Herbert Greene, Philip Johnson, Richard Foster, Paolo Soleri, John Soane -- Inspired women: Diane de Poitiers, Elizabeth Shrewsbury, Sarah Winchester, Sarah Churchill, Isabella Gardner -- Artists as builders: Mark Twain, Sir Walter Scott, William Gillette, Frederick Church, Peter Paul Rubens, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Horace Walpole -- Eastern potentates: Darius the Great, Shah Jahan, Maharana Jagat Singh, Ibn al-Ahmar -- Princely Americans: Thomas Jefferson, Haller Nutt, The Vanderbilt family, George Boldt, John Ringling, William Randolph Hearst.

Summary:

An architectural look at expensive private homes from the past and present and the motivations of their builders.

ISBN:

0828130647
9780828130646
0828130728 (de luxe)
9780828130721
0236401505
9780236401505
0828130655
9780828130653

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic.
Biography.
Architecture domestique.
Biographies.
dwellings.
Stately homes Architectural features

Form/genre:

Biography.
Biographies.

Added entries:

C. Donald Cook Frank Lloyd Wright Collection
American heritage.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 28158
Call No.: NA7120.T46 (ID:88-B1398)
Status: Available

Location: Library main 28159
Call No.: NA7120.T46 (ID:88-B1398)
Status: Available