ARH ARAH 9570

Fall 2013

Meeting time Monday afternoons 3:30-6:30 PM

Instructor: Richard Guy Wilson, Office 231 Campbell Hall, office hours 10:30-12:15 Tuesdays and by appointment---if I am in, or you see me, I am fair game, just ask me.

Class emails: arah-arh-9570-col-revival@collab.itc.virginia.edu

 

Title: The Colonial Revival in Architecture and related Arts

 

“But, in any case, whatever may be the future of architecture, in whatever manner our young architects may one day solve the question of their art, let us, while waiting for a new monument, preserve the ancient monuments. Let us, if possible, inspire the nation with a love for national architecture. That, the author declares, is one of the principal aims of this book; it is one of the principal aims of his life." Victor Hugo, Notre-Dame De Paris [or best known as Hunchback of Notre-Dame] (1832)

 

 “Architecture inevitably reflects the deeper beliefs of an age; it bears witness to current feeling about nature, about society, about the very possibility of human improvement. . . . architecture is like the human personality. It consists of body and spirit.”   Lewis Mumford The South in Architecture (1941)

 

“Architects make architecture, historians make history, and what they both make is myth.”  Charles Jencks, “History as Myth” in Meaning in Architecture eds. Jencks and Baird (1970) (p.265)

 

“Herodotus [484-ca. 425 BCE] was not the 'Father of History,' but the father of lies.”  Plutarch (46AD-120AD)

 

Description: Some observers argue that the Colonial Revival is the most American of our various attempts to create a national art and architecture; certainly the Colonial Revival is the most popular at least with the general public.  However, the Colonial Revival is not just an architectural phenomenon but a mental attitude towards history that pervades the decorative arts, landscape design, city planning, painting, sculpture, literature, and ultimately how we view the American past.  What is included as Colonial Revival is more than just reproductions of Tidewater mansions, or Cape Cods, but the Mission, Pueblo, Spanish Colonial, French, and other revivals, along with log cabins, garden design, history painting, some of our commemorative sculptures, Ethan Allen furniture and the decorative arts,  Colonial Williamsburg, costume, and historical novels. In this course we will consider all of these various manifestations and others, pay some attention to how the histography of the Colonial past developed (especially with regards to the physical and aesthetic artifacts) look at other media, touch on related developments in other countries, the role of historic preservation, and etc.  The time period will be from the 1780s  to recent work such as the American suburb and New Urbanism.

 

Class: Seminar, limited to 14 students with graduate student status; students from Architectural History, Art History, American Studies and History are welcome.

 

Class work: readings, discussion, short report/presentations and a major research paper and class presentation. For each class please do the readings and then by 11AM on Monday of the class post on COLLAB 2-3 issues, or topics that should be addressed. All please read these and think about them for class. We will use these for discussion.

 

Each student will make one short report on a building, book, or periodical during the regular classes; it should be accompanied with a handout. In some cases it will be a team effort.

 

Each student will present at the end of the semester a full length paper (i.e.: 15 pages +) that will develop some aspect of our subject. See attachment for possible topics.  As part of this assignment you will make a class room presentation on Dec. 11^th (I hope) of about 15 minutes based on your paper.  Papers are due on Dec. 13^th

 

 

Tentative books list

Axelrod, Alan, ed. The Colonial Revival in America (out of print)

Kimball, Fiske Domestic Architecture of the American Colonies and Early Republic (available on

             line, but suggest you get a copy)

Scully, Vincent J. The Shingle Style and the Stick Style

 

Bibliography

A huge bibliography done by several students in 2003 is available:

“Colonial revival in America : Annotated Bibliography”  http://etext.virginia.edu/colonial/

 

Reserve: ( I am having many portions of books below put on Collab(CLB)—I will list the articles)

 

American Architect and Building News: Peabody, Robert S., "A Talk about `Queen Anne,'  2 (April 28, 1877), 133-34 (CLB)

------------- "Georgian Houses of New England," ibid., 2 (Oct. 20,          1877), 338-39; 3 (Feb. 16, 1878), 54-55. (CLB)

'The Need of Unity,” American Architect and Building News 1 (January 1,1876) Pages: 3 (CLB)

“American Architecture-Past,” American Architect and Building News ( 1876), 242-243 (CLB)

 “American Architecture-Present,” American Architect and Building News 1  (August 5, Year:  1876)  251(CLB)

“Editorial” 1 (September 16, 1876)  303-304(CLB)

J. M. Briden “A Few More Words about “Queen Anne,’” American Architect 2 (Oct. 6, 1877), 322. (CLB

 

Ames, Kenneth, “Introduction” to Axelrod, Alan, ed. The Colonial Revival in America, p.1-14 (CLB)

Architectural Record. The restoration of colonial Williamsburg in Virginia (New York, F.W. Dodge Corporation, 1935) NA735 .W5 A7 1935 –note--this is an offprint of an issue.

Axelrod, Alan, ed. The Colonial Revival in America (1985)

Ayres, William, ed. Picturing History: American Painting 1770-1930  (1993)

Bodnar, John, “Introduction” and “Public Memory in Nineteenth-Century America: Background and Context,” in Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), pp. 13-38. (CLB)

Borges, Jorge Luis, “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius” Ficciones (1962);   pp. 5-21. (CLB)

Brownell, Charles, Loth, Calder, Rasmussen, William, Wilson,            Richard Guy, The Making of Virginia Architecture (1992)--

William Butler, “Another City upon a Hill: Litchfield, Connecticut, and the Colonial Revival,” in Axelrod, Alan, ed. The Colonial Revival in America 15-51(CLB)

Corner, James M. and Soderholtz, Examples of Domestic Colonial   Architecture in New England (1891, 1901)

Dow, Joy Wheeler, American renaissance : a review of domestic architecture (New York : William T. Comstock, 1904)

Duany, Andres and  Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Towns and town-making principles (Cambridge: Harvard Graduate School of Design and New York : Rizzoli, 1991)

Earle, Alice Morse, Old Time Gardens: Newly Set Forth (1902)(parts on CLB)

Gebhard, David “The American Colonial Revival in the 1930s,” Winterthur Portfolio 22, no. 2/3 (Summer – Autumn 1987): pp. 109-48. (CLB)

_______________, “ The Spanish Colonial Revival In Southern California, 1895-1930” JSAH, 26 (May 1967), 131-147. (CLB)

Gilman, Arthur, "Architecture in the United States, North American Review 58 (April 1844) on(CLB)

Goebel, David and Daves Rossell eds. COMMEMORATION IN AMERICA: Monuments, Memorialization, and Memory (2013)

Heald, Sarah H.,  'To Keep Up the Delusion, Henry W. Longfellow's House and Furnishings and the Colonial Revival'  Re-creating the American past : essays on the colonial revival, Wilson, et al

2006 Pages: 351-364(CLB)

Hobsbawm, “Introduction: Inventing Traditions”, from The Invention of tradition, edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, (CLB)

Hosmer, Charles B. Presence of the Past (1965)

Hosmer, Charles B. Preservation Comes of Age 2 vols (1981)

Huxtable, Ada Louise “The Way it Never Was” in The Unreal America (1997) (CLB)

Irving, Washington  “A DUTCH ENTERTAINMENT” 

Kammen, Michael, Mystic Chords of Memory: The Transformation of Tradition in American Culture

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, “The Old Clock on Stairs” (1845-46)  “Paul Revere’s Ride,” (1860)  ,  both on line and (CLB)

Lounsbury, Carl R. Beaux-Arts Ideals and Colonial Reality: The Reconstruction of Williamsburg's Capitol, 1928- 1934” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 49, No. 4 (Dec., 1990), pp. 373-389 (CLB)

Marling, Karal Ann George Washington slept here : colonial revivals and American culture, 1876-1986   (1988)

McClelland, Nancy Furnishing the Colonial and Federal House (New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1936

Mitnick, Barbara J., “Paintings for the People: American Popular History Painting, 1875-1930,” in ed. William S. Ayers, Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (New York: Rizzoli, 1993). (CLB)
Newcomb, Rexford (1886-1968): The Spanish house for America, its design, furnishing,

 and garden, (Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1927) (parts on CLB)

Peebles, John Kevin, "Thomas Jefferson, Architect,” American Architect and Building News 47  (Jan. 19, 1895) 29-30; also in Alumni Bulletin [University of Virginia] 1 (November 1894, 68-74 (CLB)

Rhodes, William B., The Colonial Revival (Ph. D. dissertation--           Garland, 1977)

________________ “The Long and Unsuccessful Effort to Kill Off the Colonial Revival,” in Richard Guy Wilson, Shaun Eyring, and Kenny Marotta, eds., Re-creating the American Past: Essays on the Colonial Revival (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006), pp. 13-25

_____________“The Discovery of America’s Architectural Past, 1874-1914,” in The Architectural Historian in America: A Symposium in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Society of Architectural Historians, ed. Elisabeth Blair MacDougall (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1990), pp. 23-39.

Schuyler, Montgomery, "A History of Old Colonial Architecture," Architectural Record 4(Jan-March 1895), 312- (CLB))

Scully, Vincent J. The Shingle Style and the Stick Style

Shackleton, Robert and Elizabeth, The Quest for the Colonial (1907) (parts on CLB)

Stein Roger, 'Gilded Age Pilgrims'   in Picturing old New England : image and memory (CLB)

Stillinger, Elizabeth, The Antiquers: The Lives and Careers...  (New York, 1980)

Truettner, William H.  and Roger B. Stein  eds in Picturing old New England : image and memory (1999) Pages: 42-77

Tuthill,  Louisa C. (1789-1879), History of Architecture from the earliest times: its present condition in Europe and the United States (1848) (CLB)

Upjohn, Richard M. "the Colonial Architecture of New York and the New England States,"  Architectural Review and American         Builder's Journal, 2 (March 1870), pp. 547-550, or in     Proceedings of the Third Annual Convention of the American Institute of architects Nov. 1869,  pp47-51. (CLB)

Virginia gardens ( Augusta, Me. : American Society of Landscape  Architects, Publications Board, [1938], c1937) SB466 .U65 V878 1938                                                    

Ware, William R. The Georgian Period 3 vols., this is filled with folios.

Weitze, Karen J., California's Mission Revival chp 1 (pp.3-17) (CLB)

West, Patricia “Campaign for Monticello” in her Domesticating History, 1999 chp 3 (CLB)

Wills, Better houses for Budgeters (1941), and Houses for Good Living (1940)

“Royal Barry Wills: Boston Architect…” Life, August 26, 1946 (CLB)

Wilson, Chris,  'New Mexico in the Tradition of Romantic Reaction',  chp 14 Pages: 175-194 in Pueblo Style and Regional Architecture (1990) Markovich, Nicholas, et al eds. (CLB)

Wilson, Richard Guy. editor and  Shaun Eyring, and Kenny Marotta, Re-creating the American past : essays on the colonial revival (2006) parts on CLB)

 

 

Class Reports (might need to team up in several cases)—please check with me on your reports, I may have a suggestion.

 

1. Sept 16  Trumbull, “Declaration of Independence”
2. Sept 23 Junius B. Stearns, “Life of Washington” five parts in Virginia Museum of Fine Arts or/ Bremo Recess,Fluvana County, VA c.1834-38
3. Sept 30  Book: Arthur Little, Early New England Interiors and or Ware ed. The Georgian Period
4. Oct 21  Santa Barbara County Court House
5. Oct 28 Virginia House, Richmond
6. Nov 4 American Wing –Metropolitan Museum of Art-and Hudson Fulton Exhibit
7. Nov. 11.  Garden at Govs. Palace

 

 

Class Schedule (Tentative--may be adjustments and additions of readings)

 

1. Sept 2  Introduction.

Go over class, choose reports, etc.. and

Discuss readings for today:  Hobsbawm, “Introduction: Inventing Traditions”, from The Invention of tradition, edited by Eric Hobsbawm and Terence Ranger, Chp. 1; Jorge Luis Borges, “Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis, Tertius” ;   pp. 5-21. Ames, Kenneth, “Introduction” to Axelrod, Alan, ed. The Colonial Revival in America, p.1-14 (CLB) All CLB

 

Also discuss class meeting times for  Sept 9^th, Dec. 2^nd, and final presentations…maybe Dec.11^th or some other time

 

Optional Readings: Lewis A. Coser, “Introduction,” in Maurice Halbwachs, On Collective Memory, trans. Lewis A. Coser (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1992)

Maurice Halbwachs, “Historical Memory and Collective Memory,” in The Collective Memory, trans. Francis J. Ditter, Jr. and Vita Yazdi Ditter (New York: Harper and Row, 1980), pp. 50-87.

Wilson, RG “Why Colonial Revival,” and”What is Colonial Revival”  (CLB)

 

 

 

2. Sept 9  (class changed? To either 1:30, or 5PM) What is the Colonial Revival in Charlottesville?  Identifying the Colonial Revival In Charlottesville, UVa and surrounding area.

Read for this class: William Butler, “Another City upon a Hill: Litchfield, Connecticut, and the Colonial Revival,” in Axelrod, Alan, ed. The Colonial Revival in America 'the colonial revival in America'   15-51 (CLB)

Each student will identify one or two items locally that provides a reflection, comment, or is an example of the Colonial Revival.  The dates are open and it can be houses (in town or new subdivisions), banks, store, service station, church, commerce, university structure, a painting, mural, sculpture, garden, etc  You are to locate it, do some research on it basic facts, date, architect/artist (again if can find), purpose and etc

 

Make some digital images of it...and present it in class for 10 minutes, with discussion to follow.

 

Please choose early your item(s) and then email the class what you have chosen. 

 

For possible research sources see:

Brownell, Charles, Loth, Calder, Rasmussen, William, and Wilson, Richard Guy, The Making of Virginia Architecture (Richmond: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, 1992) Survey of Virginia emphasizing themes.

Lay, K. Edward, The Architecture of Jefferson Country, Charlottesville and Albemarle County, Virginia (Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 2000)

______________, "Charlottesville's Architectural Legacy, " Magazine of Albemarle County History, 46 (May 1988), pp. 29-95, a guide to hometown.

Loth, Calder, ed. The Virginia Landmarks Register, 4th. ed. (University Press of Virginia, 2000), covers everything, well illustrated.

Wilson, Richard Guy and Sara A. Butler, Campus Guide: University of Virginia (1999, 2012)

Wilson, Richard Guy, ed. Buildings of Virginia: Tidewater and Piedmont

            (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002)

Also check the Commonwealth of Virginia, Department of Historic Resources web site. http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/register_counties_cities.htm

 

 

3. Sept 16  Inventing American History—1780-1850s

 

Class presentation #1...Trumbull, Declaration of Independence,

 

 

Reading:  1848 [Arthur Gilman] “Architecture in the United States,” North American Review 58 (April 1844), 436-480. published as Article VI, “Rural Architecture,” North American Review (CLB)

 

Mrs. L. C. Tuthill [Louisa Caroline] (1798-1879) History of architecture, from the earliest times; its present condition in Europe and the United States with a biography of eminent architects, and a glossary of architectural terms.  1848.  readings chp XIX and XX...look at rest (CLB)

Hosmer, Presence, 1-62,

Kammen, pp.3-90; (CLB);

Heald 'To Keep Up the Delusion, Henry W. Longfellow's House and Furnishings and the Colonial Revival'  Re-creating the American past : essays on the colonial revival, Wilson, et al

2006 Pages: 351-364(CLB)

Longfellow, “Paul Revere’s Ride”

http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/toc/modeng/public/LonPaul.html

Longfellow: “Old Clock on Stairs”

http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?ctx_ver=Z39.88-2003&xri:pqil:res_ver=0.2&res_id=xri:lion-us&rft_id=xri:lion:ft:po:Z500194454:5

 

Optional Readings:

W. Barksdale Maynard, “’Best, Lowliest Style!’: The Early-Nineteenth-Century Rediscovery of American Colonial Architecture,” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 59, no. 3 (September 2000): pp. 338-57.

Maurice Halbwachs, “Historical Memory and Collective Memory,” in The Collective Memory, trans. Francis J. Ditter, Jr. and Vita Yazdi Ditter (New York: Harper and Row, 1980), pp. 50-87

 

 

4. Sept 23    Inventing American History II   1780-1850s

Bremo, Sunnyside, Hawthorne Mt. Vernon, Hasbrouck House

 

Class Presentation: #2  Junius B. Stearns, “Life of Washington” five parts in Virginia Museum of Fine Arts/ or/ Bremo Recess, c.1834-38

Reading: Washington Irving: The beauties of Washington Irving, author of "The sketch-book," "Knickerbocker," "Crayon miscellany," &c “A DUTCH ENTERTAINMENT”  on line at: http://repo.lib.virginia.edu:18080/fedora/get/uva-lib:255455/uva-lib-bdef:103/getDynamicView?behav=getObjectBrowse&id=d14

John Bodnar, “Introduction” and “Public Memory in Nineteenth-Century America: Background and Context,” in Remaking America: Public Memory, Commemoration, and Patriotism in the Twentieth Century (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1992), pp. 13-38. (CLB)

 

These two readings relate more to sessions 5/6 but since lots of reading then, do them ahead of time:

Reading: Montgomery Schuyler, “A History of Old Colonial Architecture,” Architectural Record 4 (January-March 1895), 312-366 (CLB)

Kimball, Fiske, Domestic Architecture, front matter, vii-xx, and Chp. 2(“The Eighteenth Century,” skim, Chp 3 (Houses of the Early Republic)  (CLB)

 

Optional Reading: William B. Rhoads, “Donald G. Mitchell and the Colonial Revival before 1876,” Nineteenth Century 4, no. 3 (Autumn 1978): pp. 76-83.

 

5.Sept 30  Discovering Early American Architecture..1860-1920  I

 

Class Presentation #3  Book Arthur Little, Early New England Interiors and or The Georgian Period

 

Reading:

Barbara J. Mitnick, “Paintings for the People: American Popular History Painting, 1875-1930,” in ed. William S. Ayers, Picturing History: American Painting, 1770-1930 (New York: Rizzoli, 1993).
Scully Shingle Style

Peabody, Robert S., "A Talk about `Queen Anne,', 2 (April 28, 1877), 133-34 (CLB)

------------- "Georgian Houses of New England," ibid., 2 (Oct. 20, 1877), 338-39; 3 (Feb. 16, 1878), 54-55. (CLB)

 'The Need of Unity,” American Architect and Building News Vol. 1 (1)  Month: (January 1, Year:  1876) Pages: 3 (CLB)

“American Architecture-Present,”  American Architect, 1  Month: August 5, Year:  1876 Pages: 251 (CLB)

Editorial American Architect 1 September 16, Year: 1876, 303-304 (CLB)
J. M. Briden “A Few More Words about “Queen Anne,’” American Architect 2 (Oct. 6, 1877), 322.

(CLB)

 

 

Optional Reading: William B. Rhoads, “The Discovery of America’s Architectural Past, 1874-1914,” in The Architectural Historian in America: A Symposium in Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Founding of the Society of Architectural Historians, ed. Elisabeth Blair MacDougall (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1990), pp. 23-39.

 

6. Oct 7 Discovering Colonial America: 1860-1920 II

 

Reading:

Roger Stein  and 'Gilded Age Pilgrims'   in Picturing old New England : image and memory Truettner, William H.  and Roger B. Stein  eds  (1999) Pages: 42-77 (CLB)

Karal Ann Marling, “The Colonial Revival: Heroic Imagery for the American Home, 1893-1924,” in George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and American Culture, 1876-1986 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988), pp. 151-84. (CLB)

Dow, Joy Wheeler, American renaissance : a review of domestic architecture (New York : William T. Comstock, 1904), chps. IV and V..pp.50-78.

Peebles, John Kevin, "Thomas Jefferson, Architect,” American Architect and Building News 47  (Jan. 19, 1895) 29-30; also in Alumni Bulletin [University of Virginia] 1 (November 1894, 68-74 (CLB)

 

Fall break Oct 13

 

7. Oct 21 Colonial Revival Alternatives: Mission, Spanish and alternatives

 

Class Presentation #4: Santa Barbara County Court House

 

Reading:

“Traces of the Franciscans in California,” Craftsman,Vol. 1  February  1902) Pages: 29-30.

David Gebhard, “ The Spanish Colonial Revival In Southern California, 1895-1930” JSAH, 26 (May 1967), 131-147. (CLB)

 

George Wharton James: “The Influence of the ‘Mission Style” upon the Civic and Domestic Architecture of Modern California,” Craftsman Vol. 5  February Year:  1904 Pages: 458-469;

 

Stickley, "The Colorado Desert and Calif." Craftsman Vol.6 (June 1904), 235-259 (CLB)

 

Newcomb, Rexford (1886-1968): The Spanish house for America, its design, furnishing,

 and garden, (Philadelphia, London, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1927), chp. 1 (CLB)

 

Weitze, Karen J., California's Mission Revival chp 1 (pp.3-17) (CLB)

 

 

8. Oct 28  Alternatives II: English, French, Pueblo, etc.

 

Class Presentation #5  Virginia House, Richmond

 

Wilson, Chris,  'New Mexico in the Tradition of Romantic Reaction',  chp 14 Pages: 175-194 in Pueblo Style and Regional Architecture (1990) Markovich, Nicholas, et al eds. (CLB)

the following materials—they all relate to the WatchTower that Mary Colter designed at the Grand Canyon and are on Collab as:

“De-ki-veh”

“Description of the paintings Watchtower”

Doyle, “A letter going to the Indian Watchtower”

Nusbaum Letter “Prehistoric Towers”

 

Optional readings:

 

9. Nov.4 Interiors and Collectors

 

Class Presentation #6.  American Wing 1924 at Metropolitan Museum of Art

 

Reading: 

Thomas Andrew Denenberg, “Pilgrim Furniture of the Modern Century,” in Wallace Nutting and the Invention of Old America (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003). (CLB)

Shackleton, Robert and Elizabeth, The Quest for the Colonial (1907) Pages: 3-21 (CLB)

Stillinger, Elizabeth, The Antiquers: The Lives and Careers...  (New York, 1980)

Part II, pp42-121,

Nancy Vincent McClelland, Furnishing the colonial and federal house; (1947), chp 1. look at rest.                            

Optional Readings

Wendy Kaplan, “R. T. H. Halsey: An Ideology of Collecting American Decorative Arts,” Winterthur Portfolio (Spring 1981): pp. 43-53. ∆

Pauline C. Metcalf, “Creating a ‘Dignified Home’: Richard Henry Dana Jr. and the New York Headquarters of the National Society of Colonial Dames, 1928-1930,” in Richard Guy Wilson, Shaun Eyring, and Kenny Marotta, eds., Re-creating the American Past: Essays on the Colonial Revival (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006), pp. 269-83. (CLB)

 

10. Nov. 11  Colonial Williamsburg  and Colonial Revival Gardens

 

Class Presentation # 7  garden at Govs. Palace

Reading: Earle, Alice Morse, (1851-1911) Old time gardens, newly set forth (New York, The Macmillan company, 1902). pp1-37. (on Collab)

 

Carl R. Lounsbury  Beaux-Arts Ideals and Colonial Reality: The Reconstruction of Williamsburg's Capitol, 1928- 1934” The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 49, No. 4 (Dec., 1990), pp. 373-389 (on Collab)

Architectural record. The restoration of colonial Williamsburg in Virginia (New York, F.W. Dodge Corporation, 1935) NA735 .W5 A7 1935

Virginia gardens ( Augusta, Me. : American Society of Landscape  Architects, Publications Board, [1938], c1937) SB466 .U65 V878 1938    Read section on Colonial Williamsburg and look at rest                                                 

Patricia West, “Campaign for Monticello” in her Domesticating History, 1999 chp 3 (CLB)

 

Optional Reading:

Charles B. Hosmer, Jr., “The Colonial Revival in the Public Eye: Williamsburg and Early Garden Restoration,” in Alan Axelrod, ed., The Colonial Revival in America (New York: WW Norton & Company, 1985), pp. 52-70.
 

11. Nov. 18 Colonial house 1920s—50s

 

Reading: Royal Barry Wills Better houses for Budgeters (1941), and Houses for Good Living (1940) “Royal Barry Wills: Boston Architect…” Life, August 26, 1946 (CLB)

 

Look at White Pine Series

Optional Reading:

David Gebhard, “The American Colonial Revival in the 1930s,” Winterthur Portfolio 22, no. 2/3 (Summer – Autumn 1987): pp. 109-48. (CLB)

Look at: Nancy McClelland, Furnishing the Colonial and Federal House (New York: J. B. Lippincott, 1936)

 

12 No class Nov. 25

 

13 Dec 2  the Colonial 1950 to today, New Urbanism etc

 

Duany, Andres and  Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk Towns and town-making principles (Cambridge: Harvard Graduate School of Design and New York : Rizzoli, 1991)

Huxtable, Ada Louise “The Way it Never Was” in The Unreal America (1997) (CLB)

William B. Rhoads, “The Long and Unsuccessful Effort to Kill Off the Colonial Revival,” in Richard Guy Wilson, Shaun Eyring, and Kenny Marotta, eds., Re-creating the American Past: Essays on the Colonial Revival (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006), pp. 13-25

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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