Main entry:

Hewitt, Mark A.

Title & Author:

The architect & the American country house, 1890-1940 / Mark Alan Hewitt ; architectural photographs by Richard Cheek.

Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1990.

Description:

xiii, 312 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-307) and index.
Preface -- 1. Rich men and their houses -- 2. Gentlemen architects -- 3. The architecture of country houses: style and typology -- 4. Stately homes: the aristocratic model of domestic culture -- 5. Country places: the house and garden movement -- 6. Regional traditions: indigenous models for domestic culture -- 7. Modernist experiments -- 8. Domestic eclecticism: a summary -- Epilogue -- Architects' biographies.

ISBN:

0300047401 (alk. paper)
9780300047400 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Country homes United States.
Country homes United States Pictorial works.
Architects and patrons United States.
Maisons de campagne États-Unis.
Architectes et mécènes États-Unis.
Maisons de campagne États-Unis Ouvrages illustrés.
Architects and patrons
Country homes
Manners and customs
Bildband
Villa
United States Social life and customs 20th century.
United States.
États-Unis Mœurs et coutumes 20e siècle.
USA
Country houses Architecture History

Form/genre:

illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Cheek, Richard, photographer.

Architect and the American country house, 1890-1940

Holdings:

Location: Library main 56794
Call No.: ID:90-B5094
Status: Available