American renaissance; a review of domestic architectureDow, Joy Wheeler
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American renaissance; a review of domestic architecture
Dow, Joy Wheeler
Architecture -- United States; Architecture, Domestic
Applied ornament, 120, 131.
Architectural Record, articles in, mentioned, 62, 147.
Architectural Review, articles in, mentioned, 80, 102, 104.
Architecture, ignorance concerning, as a fine art, 132-33, 171;
adaptation, soul of, 136; contrasted
with literature, 76, 136;
plagiarism in, 137, 151;
Jacobin, 41, 111-15, 117;
Elizabethan, 138-40;
Tudor, 96, 140;
Queen Anne, 125-28;
Jacobean, 25, 41, 138, 140, 168;
Romanesque, 28;
Gothic, 95-97, 146;
French Renaissance, 123-24, 135, 142-44;
eclectic style a fallacy, 20;
not taught in schools, 35, 49, 50;
newly invented, 30-33, 114;
American extravaganza, 46;
atmosphere necessary to, 116;
modern Colonial, 128-30;
cubic measure of art, 171.
Architects, different kinds of, 163-65;
publishers of plans, 170-71.
Arnold-Shippen house, Fairmount Park, 69.
Art and charity, 38, 39.
Art and commercialism contrasted, 37-39.
Artist temperament, 156-61.
Astor Library, mentioned, 105, 107.
Astor, John Jacob, 105, 106.
Atmosphere necessary to architecture, 116.
Azay-le-Rideau, château of, 143.
Back-buildings of Philadelphia, 86-88.
Bancroft, George, his history of United States cited, 77.
Bates & Guild Co., publications by, 63.
Beaconsfield, Earl of, mentioned, 123;
his use of flattery, 170.
Bell, Frederick A., buys the Danforth place at Madison, N. J., 122.
Bellwood, Madison, N. J., 121-23.
Belmont houses, New York City, 37.
Bennett house, New Bedford, Mass., 102, 104.
Bennett, James Gordon, his account of an assembly ball cited, 92.
Berkshires, modern architecture in, 35, 36.
Beau Brummel, quoted, 148.
Blickling Hall, 168.
Biltmore, North Carolina, 52, 167.
Bond Street, N. Y. City, No. 23, 99-101.
Boston, Mass., Scarcity of Colonial houses in, 68.
Bramante, architect, 45, 122.
Brandon, Va., mentioned, 63.
Brice-Jennings house, Annapolis, mentioned, 63.
Bristol, R. I., 68, 80-82;
Capt. Churchill house (house with the eagles), 81;
doorways, 82;
De Wolf-Colt house, 80, 81;
De Wolf-Middleton house, 81, 82;
Norris house, 81.
Brown, Albert F., book on early Connecticut houses, 57.
Browning the poet mentioned, 95, 98.
Burns, Robert, cottage of, 53.
Canterbury Keys, Wyoming, N. J., 139.
Capitol at Washington, 71, 134.
Carlyle house at Alexandria, Va., 71;
adaptation of, 71.
Carlyle, Thomas, cited, 108.
Carrère and Hastings, extension designed by, 122.
Centennial Exposition, its influence, 118, 120, 125.
Charity, its relation to architecture, 38, 39;
anatomy of, 107.
Charlecote Hall, 139.
Chambord, château of, 143;
mentioned, 145.
Charm not deducible by mathematics, 61.
Chase house, Annapolis, mentioned, 63.
Chenonceau, château of, 143-144.
Chew house, Germantown, 69.
Chopin, étude by, cited, 67;
quoted, 106.
Coles house, Farmington, Conn., 23.
Colonial houses in Switzerland, 147.
Colonial houses, modern, 154;
scarcity of good ones, 169;
ultra-fashionable, 130.
Colonial revival, 128-30.
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