Prodigy Houses of Virginia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Prodigy Houses of Virginia write by Barbara Burlison Mooney. This book was released on 2008. Prodigy Houses of Virginia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Introduction : "An art which shews so much" -- Defining the prodigy house : architectural aesthetics and the colonial dialect -- "Blind stupid fortune" : profiling the architectural patron -- "Reason reascends her throne" : the impact of dowry -- "Each rascal will be a director" : architectural patrons and the building process -- Learning to become "good mechanics in building" -- Epistemologies of female space : early Tidewater mansions -- Political power and the limits of genteel architecture
The Philadelphia Country House
The Philadelphia Country House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Philadelphia Country House write by Mark E. Reinberger. This book was released on 2015-10-21. The Philadelphia Country House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A highly readable, beautifully illustrated study of the homes built by elite colonial Philadelphians as retreats—which balanced English models with developing local taste. Colonial Americans, if they could afford it, liked to emulate the fashions of London and the style and manners of English country society while at the same time thinking of themselves as distinctly American. The houses they built reflected this ongoing cultural tension. By the mid-eighteenth century, Americans had developed their own version of the bourgeois English countryseat, a class of estate equally distinct in social function and form from townhouses, rural plantations, and farms. The metropolis of Philadelphia was surrounded by a particularly extraordinary collection of country houses and landscapes. Taken together, these estates make up one of the most significant groups of homes in colonial America. In this masterly volume, Mark Reinberger, a senior architectural historian, and Elizabeth McLean, an accomplished scholar of landscape history, examine the country houses that the urban gentry built on the outskirts of Philadelphia in response to both local and international economic forces, social imperatives, and fashion. What do these structures and their gardens say about the taste of the people who conceived and executed them? How did their evolving forms demonstrate the persistence of European templates while embodying the spirit of American adaptation? The Philadelphia Country House explores the myriad ways in which these estates—which were located in the country but responded to the ideas and manners of the city—straddled the cultural divide between urban and rural. Moving from general trends and building principles to architectural interiors and landscape design, Reinberger and McLean take readers on an intimate tour of the fine, fashionable elements found in upstairs parlors and formal gardens. They also reveal the intricate working world of servants, cellars, and kitchen gardens. Highlighting an important aspect of American historic architecture, this handsome volume is illustrated with nearly 150 photographs, more than 60 line drawings, and two color galleries.
The Gentleman's House in the British Atlantic World 1680-1780
The Gentleman's House in the British Atlantic World 1680-1780 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Gentleman's House in the British Atlantic World 1680-1780 write by S. Hague. This book was released on 2015-06-23. The Gentleman's House in the British Atlantic World 1680-1780 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Gentleman's House analyses the architecture, decoration, and furnishings of small classical houses in the eighteenth century. By examining nearly two hundred houses it offers a new interpretation of social mobility in the British Atlantic World characterized by incremental social change.
Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment
Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment write by . This book was released on 2012-08-01. Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Investing in the Early Modern Built Environment represents the first attempt to delve into the period’s enhanced architectural investment—its successes, its failures, and the conflicts it provoked globally.
The Chesapeake House
The Chesapeake House - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Chesapeake House write by Cary Carson. This book was released on 2013-03-25. The Chesapeake House available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region. Its painstaking work has transformed our understanding of building practices in the colonial and early national periods and thereby greatly enriched the experience of visiting historic sites. In this beautifully illustrated volume, a team of historians, curators, and conservators draw on their far-reaching knowledge of historic structures in Virginia and Maryland to illuminate the formation, development, and spread of one of the hallmark building traditions in American architecture. The essays describe how building design, hardware, wall coverings, furniture, and even paint colors telegraphed social signals about the status of builders and owners and choreographed social interactions among everyone who lived or worked in gentry houses, modest farmsteads, and slave quarters. The analyses of materials, finishes, and carpentry work will fascinate old-house buffs, preservationists, and historians alike. The lavish color photography is a delight to behold, and the detailed catalogues of architectural elements provide a reliable guide to the form, style, and chronology of the region's distinctive historic architecture.
