Research Catalog

Title

Greek revival architecture in America : being an account of important trends in American architecture and American life prior to the War between the States / by Talbot Hamlin ; together with a list of articles on architecture in some American periodicals prior to 1850 by Sarah Hull Jenkins Simpson Hamlin (1887-1930) and an introduction by Leopold Arnaud.

Author

Hamlin, Talbot, 1889-1956

Publication

New York : Dover, 1964, c1944.

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Details

Additional Authors

Hamlin, Sarah Hull Jenkins Simpson, 1887-1930

Description

xl, 439 p., 90 p. of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Subjects

• Bibliographies
• 1800-1899
• History
• Architecture > Bibliography
• Architecture > United States > History > 19th century
• Greek revival (Architecture) > United States
• Architecture, American > History > 19th century

Genre/Form

• Bibliographies
• History

Note

• Reprint. Originally published: Oxford University Press, 1944.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [356]-409)

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The background of the Classic revival : "Late Colonial" architecture -- The birth of American architecture -- American architecture comes of age -- The Greek revival in Philadelphia -- The Greek revival in Boston -- The classic revival in New York -- The Provincial Greek revival : the New England states -- The Provincial Greek revival : in the Old South -- The Provincial Greek revival : the Gulf Coast, New Orleans, and Texas -- Westward ways : through the South to the Mississippi -- Westward ways: through the North to the Pacific -- Why the Greek revival succeeded, and why it failed -- The American development of Greek-inspired forms -- Some articles of architectural interest published in American periodicals prior to 1851.

ISBN

0486211487

OCLC

• 224826
• SCSB-10109145

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library