Of houses & time : personal histories of America's National Trust properties / William Seale.

Main entry:

Seale, William.

Title & Author:

Of houses & time : personal histories of America's National Trust properties / William Seale.

Publication:

New York : H.N. Abrams : National Trust for Historic Preservation, 1992.

Description:

240 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-231) and index.
Colonial Empires -- Children of the Revolution -- Age of Enterprise -- Houses Divided -- Victorian Ambitions -- Art Turns the Century -- American Joins the World -- A Place for the Past -- Source Notes -- Houses of the National Trust -- Index.

Summary:

Illustrated history of seventeen houses from three centuries of American life that are today properties of the National Trust for Historic Preservation: Drayton Hall ; Montpelier ; Cliveden ; Belle Grove ; Woodlawn ; Oatlands ; Decatur House ; Shadows-on-the-Teche ; Cooper-Molera Adobe ; Casa Amesti ; Lyndhurst ; Brucemore ; Wright Home and Studio ; Chesterwood ; Wilson House ; Filoli ; Pope-Leighey House.

ISBN:

0810936712
9780810936713

Subject:

Historic buildings United States.
Dwellings United States.
Architecture, Domestic United States History.
Monuments historiques États-Unis.
Architecture domestique États-Unis Histoire.
Habitations États-Unis.
Architecture, Domestic.
Dwellings.
Historic buildings.
Geschichte
Fallstudiensammlung
Haus.
United States.
USA.
Architecture, United History
Historic United States

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Of houses and time

Holdings:

Location: Library main 75232
Call No.: ID E159.S48; ID:92-B2485
Status: Available

Location: Library main 75231
Call No.: ID E159.S48; ID:92-B2485
Status: Available

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