Essays in early American architectural history :

Lounsbury, Carl.

Essays in early American architectural history : a view from the Chesapeake / View from the Chesapeake Carl R. Lounsbury. - Charlottesville [Va.] : University of Virginia Press, 2011. - ix, 268 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

9780813931104 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Architecture--History.--United States

NA707 / .L78 2011

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