Newport through its architecture : a history of styles from postmedieval to postmodern

Newport through its architecture : a history of styles from postmedieval to postmodern

Hanover ; London : University Press of New England, 2005.

xvii, 297 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 29 cm.

728.09745 Y26 2005

(OCoLC)57754204

"A remarkable coincidence of unplanned historical events has preserved the architectural heritage of Newport, Rhode Island, in a way that is rare among American cities. Newport has the largest number of pre-revolutionary war buildings in North America, with some 800 on the Point and the Historic Hill. In the nineteenth century, Newport was home to many of America's most prominent families and patrons of innovative architecture. From Greek Revival to Gothic, Italianate, and French Second Empire, Newport exemplifies the greatness of mid-nineteenth-century American architecture"--Publisher.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-283) and index.
Contents: The postmedieval Jacobean style and Newport's founding -- The Georgian styles before the Revolutionary War -- Federal and Greek revival architecture, 1780-1840 -- The Gothic revival of the 1830s and 1840s -- The Italian villa and Italianate architecture of the 1850s -- The French roof and the Civil War era -- The stick style of the 1860s and 1870s -- Queen Anne variants, 1870-1890 -- The shingle style before 1885 -- The beginnings of beaux-arts Newport, 1880-1890 -- Richard Morris Hunt and the beaux-arts, 1888-1895 -- The beaux-arts and academic eclecticism in the twentieth century -- Modernism from the Bauhaus to postmodernism -- Appendix : a brief listing of selected Newport buildings by architect.
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