Gervase Wheeler
Gervase Wheeler

Author: Renée Tribert

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2012-02-08

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 0819571466

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Gervase Wheeler was an English-born architect who designed such important American works as the Henry Boody House in Brunswick, Maine; the Patrick Barry House in Rochester, New York; and the chapels at Bowdoin and Williams colleges. But he was perhaps best known as the author of two influential architecture books, Rural Homes (1851) and Homes for the People (1855). Yet Wheeler has remained a little known, enigmatic figure. Renée Tribert and James F. O'Gorman's study sheds new light on the course of Wheeler's career in the states, and brings crucial issues to the fore—the international movement of ideas, the development of the American architectural profession, the influence of architectural publications on popular taste, and social history as expressed in the changing nature of the American house. Wheeler's career is traced chronologically and geographically and the book is lavishly illustrated with over fifty images, including building plans and historical photographs.

Porches of North America
Porches of North America

Author: Thomas Durant Visser

Publisher: UPNE

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1611682207

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A complete architectural guide to this well-loved building feature

American Country Building Design
American Country Building Design

Author: Donald J. Berg

Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 9781402723575

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"Provides an excellent introduction as well as suggestions for using these plans to add architectural detail to your own home...an excellent bibliography."--Victorian Homes "The best home, barn and landscape designs...in a charming book....[It] contains numerous original illustrations showing a wealth of construction details, site plans and plantings."--Fine Homebuilding This classic bestseller contains the finest collection of architectural designs from a bygone era--and it's a boon for anyone hoping to construct that dream house or add charming touches to a modern one. Hundreds of illustrations from actual 19th century building plans feature architects' blueprints and drawings, full-color photos, and more. The buildings range from humble farmers' cabins to summer getaway cottages for the rich, and there's plenty of detail work, including built-in shelves, dormers, and turned balusters. With this information, an architect could easily create anything shown on the pages.

Building Power
Building Power

Author: Anna Vemer Andrzejewski

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1572336315

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Introduction -- Discipline -- Efficiency -- Hierarchy -- Fellowship -- Conclusion.

The Refinement of America
The Refinement of America

Author: Richard Lyman Bushman

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-09-21

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0307761606

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This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning, and sentimental novels, Richard L. Bushman shows how a set of values originating in aristocratic court culture gradually permeated almost every stratum of American society and served to prevent the hardening of class consciousness. A work of immense and richly nuanced learning, The Refinement of America newly illuminates every facet of both our artifacts and our values.