Re-creating the American past : essays on the colonial revival / / edited by Richard Guy Wilson, Shaun Eyring, and Kenny Marotta.

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Re-creating the American past : essays on the colonial revival / / edited by Richard Guy Wilson, Shaun Eyring, and Kenny Marotta.

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.

vii, 431 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Electronic Version:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0518/2005024383.html

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: What is the colonial revival? / Richard Guy Wilson -- The long and unsuccessful effort to kill off the colonial revival / William B. Rhoads -- Consumed by the past : Wallace Nutting and the invention of old America / Thomas Andrew Denenberg -- Candace Wheeler and the new old-fashioned home / Jean Dunbar -- Jens Fredrick Larson and colonial revival / Rod A. Miller -- Ellen Biddle Shipman's colonial revival garden style / Judith B. Tankard -- The architecture of efficiency : the U.S. Army and the colonial revival style in the west / Alison K. Hoagland -- A "portrait of a nation" : the role of the historic American buildings survey in the colonial revival / Annie Robinson -- The mills connection : colonial revival and institutional survival in the 1930s / Sara A. Butler -- The American parkway as colonial revival landscape / Timothy Davis -- Reviving colonials and reviving as colonial / Betsy Hunter Bradley -- Colonial Georgetown : the power of myth / Eve L. Barsoum -- "One of the fairest spots on the Atlantic coast" : the colonial revival and Long Island's modernization, 1880-1942 / Joshua Ruff -- George Washington birthplace national monument : provenance of a colonial revival commemorative landscape / Elizabeth Sargent -- Virginia house : the reconstruction of social and historical narratives / Jacqueline Taylor -- The Marie Zimmerman house : engaging Dutch colonial history in situ / David E. Tipson and Thomas E. Solon -- Creating a "dignified home" : Richard Henry Dana Jr. and the New York headquarters of the National Society of Colonial Dames, 1928-1930 / Pauline C. Metcalf -- "For the children out here" : re-creating the gardens of Mount Vernon on the bluffs of the Missouri River in Omaha, Nebraska / James R. Hill -- Louis Bromfield's big house at Malabar Farm : form follows fiction / Barbara Powers -- The concept of hand production in colonial revival interiors / Marilyn Casto -- Advertising gentility : ovals and mass market women's magazines, 1910-1960 / Natalie Fizer and Glenn Forley -- "To keep up the delusion" : Henry W. Longfellow's house and furnishings and the colonial revival / Sarah H. Heald -- Sunny Spain or our Algeria : the other colonial revival / Barbara Burlison Mooney -- American colonial homes migrate to France / Isabelle Gournay.

CHM copy 39088012463782 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, S. Dillon Ripley Endowment, From his friends, 1993.

Colonial revival (Architecture)

National characteristics, American, in art.

Architecture -- United States -- History. -- 19th century.

Architecture -- United States -- History. -- 20th century.

Wilson, Richard Guy, 1940-

Marotta, Kenny.

Catalog Source No.:

(OCoLC)ocm61362746

0813923484 (cloth : alk. paper)

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