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
Colonnade, N. Y. City, 104-6.
Congress at Berlin, reference, 123.
Connecticut, early houses in, 57, 59.
Country house for Mrs. H. at Morristown, 144.
Country Life, the English periodical, 51;
illustration from, 52.
Cupolas (see chapter Reign of Terror, 108) correctly placed, 153.
Curious analogy between art and nature, 89.
Cypress as a building material, 147.
Delafield house on Long Island, 72-73.
Dickens, Charles, his criticisms, 89-91;
quoted, 108.
Don Juan, quotations from, 49, 78.
Du Barry, Madam, mentioned, 79.
Durham, Conn., Miles Merwin house, 46-48.
Dutch influences in New York and New Jersey, 59.
D’Israeli, his use of flattery, 170.
Early Renaissance of England, book by Gotch, 140.
Eastlake School of Design, 119-20.
Eclectic style, its fallacy in architecture, 20.
Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, 121, 142;
graduates of, 143.
Efflorescence of commercialism, 85.
Elmington, Gloucester Co., Va., 73.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, mentioned, 95.
English Renaissance under the Georges, 124, 140;
a vast treasure house, 77;
various other allusions, 22-27, 51-53, 61, 77, 96, 138-41, 168.
Fanciful houses (see Reign of Terror), 108.
Farmhouse, modern, 49, 50.
Farmington, Conn., Coles house, 23.
Field of art an enchanted garden, 149.
Financier architects, 164.
Financiers, their love of flowers, 160;
their influence upon American Renaissance, 131.
Flat-iron Building, N. Y. City, 37.
Florence, Italy, mentioned, 28.
Fontainebleau, Château of, 135, 142, 145.
Ford Mansion, Morristown, N. J., 75.
Fouquet, minister of Louis XIV, mentioned, 44.
Fourth Street, N. Y. City, doorway, 99.
French Renaissance, 123-24, 135, 142-44.
French Revolution cited, 79, 108.
Gabriel, architect, mentioned, 144.
George, Henry, cited, 109.
Germantown, Pa., 70;
Colonial houses in, 69, 70;
Morris house, 69;
Wyck, 60, 61, 69;
Stenton-in-the-fields, 69;
Wister house, 69.
Gerry, Mrs., engages Mr. Hunt to be her architect, 124.
Girondists and mountain, cited, 113.
Gloucester Co., Va., 73, 74.
Gotch’s Early Renaissance in England, 140.
Gothic architecture, in wood, 24;
recommended by Ruskin, 95-97.
Grace Church, N. Y. City, 134;
rectory, 96-97.
H. Mrs., her house at Morristown, N. J., 144.
Haddon Hall, 138.
Hackensack, N. J., old house in, 60.
Halleck, Fitz-Greene, 105.
Hampton Court, Wolsey palace, 141;
South palace, 141.
Hancock house, Boston, mentioned, 68.
Hartford, Conn., mentioned, 83.
Harwood house, Annapolis, mentioned, 63.
Hawthorne, Nat’l, reference, 83.
Historical succession in architecture, 116.
Hone, Philip, diary of, 91-94.
Hoods, Dutch, 59, 60;
Germantown, 59, 60.
House Beautiful, articles in, cited, 80, 82, 137, 139.
House with the eagles, Bristol, R. I., 81.
How to make a successful house, reference, 137.
Hunnewell Gardens, cited, 53.
Hunt, Richard M., architect, 120-24.
Invented architecture, 30-33, 114-16.
Irving, Washington, 105-7;
Life and Letters, mentioned, 107.
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