Main entry:

Maynard, W. Barksdale (William Barksdale)

Title & Author:

Buildings of Delaware / W. Barksdale Maynard.

Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2008.

Description:

xiv, 353 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Buildings of the United States

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-319) and index.
Introduction. Woodland Indians ; Swedes, Finns, and Dutch ; Colonial (and Colonial Revival) ; Nineteenth century ; Architects ; Du Pont estates ; Transportation ; Suburbs ; Historic preservation -- Brandywine Hundred. Claymont ; Arden ; Brandywine Hundred South of Arden ; Vicinity of Brandywine Creek and along Concord Pike -- Christiana Hundred. Northern Christiana Hundred ; Centreville ; Greenville vicinity ; South of DE ; Elsmere vicinity ; Newport North along Red Clay Creek ; Ashland and vicinity -- Wilmington. Christina riverfront and east side ; Market Street corridor ; West Center City ; Brandywine Village and Park ; Northeast Wilmington ; West Wilmington ; Northwest Wilmington -- New Castle Hundred. North of New Castle ; New Castle ; South of New Castle -- Mill Creek and White Clay Creek Hundreds. Hockessin ; Down Red Clay Creek ; Along Limestone Road (DE7) ; Stanton vicinity ; Christiana -- Newark and White Clay Creek Valley. Upper White Clay Creek Valley ; Lower White Clay Creek Valley ; Newark ; West of the University of Delaware ; South of Newark Center -- Pencader and Red Lion Hundreds. Glasgow ; Along the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal ; St. Georges and vicinity ; Delaware City -- Lower New Castle County. Port Penn ; Odessa ; Middletown vicinity ; Middletown ; Townsend vicinity -- Kent County. Smyrna ; Along DE ; Camden ; Southeast of Dover ; Frederica ; Harrington ; Milford -- Dover -- Eastern Sussex County. Milton ; South of Ellendale ; Georgetown ; East of Georgetown ; Lewes ; Rehoboth Beach ; West of Rehoboth Beach ; South along the Inland Bays and Oceanfront -- Western Sussex County. Bridgeville ; West of Bridgeville ; Seaford ; Woodland and Bethel ; Laurel ; Southwest of Millsboro -- Glossary.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' prestigious Buildings of the United States series, this book is the first book to document the state's architectural history from all perids. Extensively illustrated with photographs and maps, and supplemented by a glassary and bibliography, the volume covers buildings of many styles, types, and materials, from grand mansion to vernacular structures, and from urban to rural settings. The noted architectural historian W. Barksdale Maynard spent much of 2002 through 2004 canvassing the rich cultural heritage of the state and investigating its relationship to the built environment--from an ancient Dutch dike of 1660 to a cutting-edge cable-stay bridge recently completed, from colonial smokehouses in the countryside of Kent County to a rare, intact, International Sytle 1940s elementary school in the city of Wilmington. Among the architectural forms discussed are industrial and agricultural buildings and structures that characterize the state's rivers, canals, and shoreline, from gristmills to bridges and lighthouses. Major cities such as Newark and Wilmington areconsidered at length, with entries on homes, churches, schools, and government buildings, and the state's natural landscape, parks, and such renowned gardens as Winterthur are also described. This book will provide scholars with valuable information on the architecture of the state, and will spark the imagination of general readers and local historians as well.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780813927022 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0813927021 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0813928729
9780813928722

Subject:

Architecture Delaware Guidebooks.
Architecture Delaware Guides.
Architecture.
Architektur
Delaware Guidebooks.
Delaware Guides.
Delaware.

Form/genre:

Guidebook
Guidebooks.
travel guidebooks.
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Buildings of the United States.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 258221
Call No.: NA730.D3 M3 2008
Status: Available