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• Author/Creator:Lounsbury, Carl.
  
• Uniform Title:[Selections. 2011]
  
• Title:Essays in early American architectural history : a view from the Chesapeake / Carl R. Lounsbury.
  
• ISBN:9780813931104 (cloth : alk. paper)
  081393110X (cloth : alk. paper)
  
• Published/Created:Charlottesville [Va.] : University of Virginia Press, 2011.
  
• Physical Description:ix, 268 p. : ill., map ; 26 cm.
  

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  • Location:HAAS ARTS LIBRARY, Art & Arch Collection
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  • Call Number: NA707 .L78X 2011 (LC)
    
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• Variant and related titles:View from the Chesapeake
  
• Format:Book
• BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
  
• Contents:Introduction. Reshaping the study of early American architecture -- The origins of early American architecture. Early American architecture : a transatlantic perspective -- Adaptation and innovation : archaeological and architectural -- Perspectives on the seventeenth-century Chesapeake -- The English origins of the Jamestown rowhouses -- The design and building process. "An elegant and commodious building" : William Buckland and the design of the Prince William County Courthouse -- The dynamics of architectural design in eighteenth-century Charleston and the low country -- Regional building patterns : ecclesiastical architecture. Anglican church design in the Chesapeake : English inheritances and regional interpretations -- Christ Church, Savannah : loopholes in metropolitan design on the frontier -- "Building is a heavy burden" : the legacy of eighteenth-century church building in the Middle Atlantic colonies -- God is in the details : the transformation of ecclesiastical architecture in early-nineteenth-century America -- Williamsburg. Ornaments of civic aspiration : the public buildings of Williamsburg -- Beaux-arts ideals and colonial reality : the reconstruction of Williamsburg's capitol, 1928-1934 -- The changing perceptions of the restoration of colonial Williamsburg.
  
• Subjects:Architecture--United States--History.