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Essays in early American architectural history : a view from the Chesapeake

Uniform Title
Selections. 2011
Title
Essays in early American architectural history : a view from the Chesapeake / Carl R. Lounsbury.
ISBN
9780813931104 (cloth : alk. paper)
081393110X (cloth : alk. paper)
Published
Charlottesville [Va.] : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
Physical Description
ix, 268 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
Variant and related titles
View from the Chesapeake
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 17, 2012
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction. Reshaping the study of early American architecture
The origins of early American architecture. Early American architecture : a transatlantic perspective
Adaptation and innovation : archaeological and architectural
Perspectives on the seventeenth-century Chesapeake
The English origins of the Jamestown rowhouses
The design and building process. "An elegant and commodious building" : William Buckland and the design of the Prince William County Courthouse
The dynamics of architectural design in eighteenth-century Charleston and the low country
Regional building patterns : ecclesiastical architecture. Anglican church design in the Chesapeake : English inheritances and regional interpretations
Christ Church, Savannah : loopholes in metropolitan design on the frontier
"Building is a heavy burden" : the legacy of eighteenth-century church building in the Middle Atlantic colonies
God is in the details : the transformation of ecclesiastical architecture in early-nineteenth-century America
Williamsburg. Ornaments of civic aspiration : the public buildings of Williamsburg
Beaux-arts ideals and colonial reality : the reconstruction of Williamsburg's capitol, 1928-1934
The changing perceptions of the restoration of colonial Williamsburg.
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