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    • Author/Creator:Fazio, Michael W.
    • Title:The domestic architecture of Benjamin Henry Latrobe [electronic resource] / Michael W. Fazio and Patrick A. Snadon.
    • ISBN:9780801881046
      0801881048
    • Published/Created:Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
    • Physical Description:1 online resource (xx, 769 p.) : Colour Photos, Grayscale Illustration ; 29 cm.
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    • Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
    • Notes:© 2006 The Johns Hopkins University Press.
      This book has been brought to publication with the generous assistance of The American Philosophical Society; The Architectural History Foundation; The Blue Grass Trust for Historic Preservation; The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts; The J. M. Kaplan Fund; Mississippi State University and its College of Architecture, Art and Design; The National Endowment for the Arts; The National Endowment for the Humanities; The National Trust for Historic Preservation; and The University of Cincinnati.
      Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.
      A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
      Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2021. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
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    • In_:ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
    • Variant and related titles:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
    • Format:Book
    • Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
    • Credits:Book design by Robert L. Wiser, Silver Spring, Maryland.
      Frontispiece. Portrait of Benjamin Henry Latrobe by Charles Willson Peale (White House Collection; courtesy of White House Historical Association)
    • BibliographyIncludes bibliographical references and index.
    • Contents:Reinterpreting Latrobe -- Learning the Profession... Latrobe in the London Office of Samuel Pepys Cockerell -- Hammerwood and Ashdown... Latrobe's English Country Houses and the Architectural Avant-Garde of the 1790s -- Reinventing the American House... An Overview of Latrobe's Design Theories and Architectural Practice in a New Country -- Houses for the Virginia Landed Gentry (1795-1798) ... Latrobe's First Explorations of the American Context -- Practice in Philadelphia (1798-1807) ... Designs for a Merchant Elite, Countryseats in Maryland and Ohio, and the Emergence of the Rational House -- A Capital City and an Expanding Democracy (1807-1815) ... Houses in Washington, D.C., Kentucky, and Pittsburgh -- Last Houses (1815-1820) ... Latrobe' Final Years in Washington, D.C., Baltimore, and New Orleans -- Some Perspectives on an Architect's Career... -- Preservation History of Latrobe's Houses and Notes on the Vicissitudes of the Avant-Garde....
    • Subjects:Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820--Criticism and interpretation.
      Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820.
      Snadon, Patrick Alexander, 1952-
      Architecture, Domestic--United States.
      Architecture, Domestic--England.
      Architecture, United States--18th century.
      Architecture, United States--19th century.
      Architecture, England--18th century.
      Architectural History.
    • Also listed under:American Council of Learned Societies.