Small, Nora Pat.

Beauty & convenience : architecture and order in the new republic / Nora Pat Small.

1st ed.

Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, ©2003.

xxiv, 155 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

"In Beauty and Conscience, Nora Pat Small examines the political and social forces that shaped the post-Revolution rural rebuilding of one New England community between 1790 and 1830."
"The rebuilding of New England, during what architectural historians have labeled the Federal period, serves as the basis for most Americans' visual or mental image of rural New England. This reconstruction became very controversial as a result of the differing definitions of republican virtue, taste, beauty, and economy held by the architects, rural reformers, and those engaged in rebuilding their homes and communities during this time. What could have promoted the attacks, primarily in the agricultural press, on the new two-story with ell rural homes? The answer lies in the attitudes and perceptions of cultural aesthetics and the notion of Republican virtue."--Jacket.

1572332360 (acid-free paper)
9781572332362 (acid-free paper)

Farmhouses New England.
Farm buildings New England.
Architecture, Domestic New England.
Architecture New England History.
Neoclassicism (Architecture) New England.
Architecture and society New England.
Architecture Nouvelle-Angleterre Histoire.
Néoclassicisme (Architecture) Nouvelle-Angleterre.
Architecture et société Nouvelle-Angleterre.
Architecture.
Architecture and society.
Architecture, Domestic.
Farm buildings.
Farmhouses.
Neoclassicism (Architecture)
Architektur
Geschichte 1800-1900.
New England.
Neuengland

History.

Beauty and convenience
Architecture and order in the new republic

Location: Library main 231662
Call No.: NA8208.52.N48 S63 2003
Status: Available