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- EX-LIBRARY
- Publication Name
- Rutgers University Press
- ISBN
- 9780813547343
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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
ISBN-10
0813547342
ISBN-13
9780813547343
eBay Product ID (ePID)
80457275
Product Key Features
Book Title
Architecture Walks : the Best Outings Near New York City
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Walking, Regional, United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, Pa), History / General
Publication Year
2010
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Travel, Architecture, Sports & Recreation
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
17 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2009-020403
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In Architecture Walks we get an engaging confluence of architecture and history. You should buy Architecture Walks and stick it in the car, in case you ever find yourself with time on your hands-and have another copy in the house to plan a trip. It's a splendid addition to the New Jersey bookshelf and I can't wait to hit the road., In Architecture Walks we get an engaging confluence of architecture and history. You should buy Architecture Walks and stick it in the car, in case you ever find yourself with time on your hands--and have another copy in the house to plan a trip. It's a splendid addition to the New Jersey bookshelf and I can't wait to hit the road., In Architecture Walks we get an engaging confluence of architecture and history. You should buy Architecture Walks and stick it in the car, in case you ever find yourself with time on your hands-and have another copy in the house to plan a trip. It''s a splendid addition to the New Jersey bookshelf and I can''t wait to hit the road.
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
720.974
Table Of Content
Preface CONNECTICUT Iconic Modernism The Glass House of Philip Johnson, New Canaan Three Eighteenth-Century Architectural Treasures on the Connecticut Shore Bush-Holley House, Cos Cob; Ogden House, Fairfield; and Judson House, Stratford Two Architectural Eccentricities Gillette Castle and Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam A Bustling, Carefuly Preserved Colonial Village Litchfield A Modernist Church in the Shape of a Fish First Presbyterian Church, Stamford From McKim, Mead & White to Cesar Pelli The Architects of Waterbury A Walk Through the ''Jewel of Long Island Sound'''' Southport Tradition Meets the Contemporary Yale University Architecture, New Haven Exuberant Victoriana The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, Norwalk Exceptional Stained Glass, Both Traditional and Modern Bethel, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Greenwich, Old Greenwich, Stamford, and Waterbury Historic Sites in a Coastal Community Guilford Contrasting Architectural Neighbors Bridgeport And Keep in Mind Berlin Historic District Two Forts Near New Haven Hotchkiss Clocktower, Sharon Milford''s Wharf Lane Complex NEW YORK STATE: LOWER HUDSON VALLEY, EAST Sunnyside One of America''s Favorite Houses, Irvington Frank Lloyd Wright''s ''Usonia'''' A Planned Community, Pleasantville Buddhist Symbols and Influences in Rural Putnam County Chuang Yen Monastery, Carmel Boscobel A Hudson River Estate in the Federal Style, Garrison Manitoga/The Russell Wright Center Unique Architecture by a Noted Twentieth-Century Designer of Decorative Arts, Garrison Philipsburg Manor Northern Plantation Style, Tarrytown Lyndhurst A Romantic Castle, Tarrytown Kykuit Palatial Glamour in a Classical Revival Estate, Pocantico Hills And Keep in Mind The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow: A Very Early House of Worship, North Tarrytown Union Church of Pocantico Hills: Where Chagall and Architecture Meet Van Cortlandt Manor: An Example of a Dutch Patent House, Croton-On-Hudson NEW YORK STATE: MID-HUDSON VALLEY, EAST The Italianate Style of America''s Renaissance Man Samuel F. B. Morse''s Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie Spectacular Campus Additions Frank Gehry and Rafael Vinoly A McKim, Mead & White Extravaganza in the Beaux Arts Style The Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park Alexander Jackson Davis and Andrew Jackson Downing Join Forces on a Hudson River Estate Montgomery Place, Annandale-on-Hudson Touring Architectural History on a Venerable Campus Vassar College, Poughkeepsie The Artist''s Imagination in a Dramatic Moorish Palace Olana, Hudson The ''Picturesque'''' in Architecture and Landscape Design Wilderstein, Rhinebeck Richard Upjohn''s Venture into Secular Italianate Architecture Lindenwald, the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, Kinderhook Mills Mansion A McKim, Mead & White Estate, Staatsburg And Keep in Mind Wing''s Castle, Millbrook Clermont, Germantown NEW YORK STATE: WEST OF THE HUDSON The Stone Houses of Huguenot Street New Paltz Romantic Castle Ruins on an Island Bannerman''s Castle, Pollepel Island Environmental Art---Or Architecture Opus 40, Woodstock A Victorian Waterfront Village Historic Rondout, Kingston Exploring the Stockade District Kingston A Rustic Village of Early Dutch and Huguenot Design Hurley Gothic Splendor at the United States Military Academy West Point And Keep in Mind The ''Cottages'''' of Elegant Onteora Park, Jewett NEW YORK STATE: LONG ISLAND Old Bethpage Village Restoration Rural Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Long Island Melding East and West The Charles B. Wang Center at Suny-Stony Brook The Gilded Life Three Glamorous Estates of the Early Twentieth Century: Eagle''s Nest (the Vanderbilt Museum), Centerport; Westbury House, Old Westburg; and Falaise, Sands Point A Gothic Revival Landmark The Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City Beachfront, Deco-Era Icon Jones Beach, Wantagh In Search of Historic Architecture Stony Brook, Setauket, East Setauket, and Smithtown Roslyn Preserves the Past &
Synopsis
From reflections of three hundred years of history to expressions of the most modern design, Architecture Walks guides readers on a tour of nearly one hundred inspiring, informative, and aesthetically intriguing architectural treasures in and around New York and the surrounding area, including Connecticut, New Jersey, the eastern edge of Pennsylvania, and Delaware. This book also incorporates descriptions of architectural styles, suggestions for special adventures, lists of jaunts arranged by architect or designer, architectural style, and particular types of sites, and forty photos., Welcome to the fascinating world of Architecture Walks --from reflections of three hundred years of history to expressions of the most modern design, authors Lucy D. Rosenfeld and Marina Harrison guide you on a tour of inspiring, informative, and aesthetically intriguing architectural treasures in and around the New York area. Early colonial saltboxes, as-yet-unfinished contemporary structures on college campuses, nineteenth-century follies, Gilded Age palaces, lighthouses, windmills, romantic ruins-- the pages of this delightful book, filled with adventures, treat readers to sites within approximately two hours' driving time from New York City. With book in hand readers will marvel at college campuses, small villages, planned and utopian communities, National Historic Sites, castles and forts, churches and temples of architectural interest, and even a Buddhist monastery, all in Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, the eastern edge of Pennsylvania, and Delaware. By including descriptions of architectural styles, suggestions for special adventures, and lists of jaunts arranged by architect or designer, architectural style, and particular types of sites, Rosenfeld and Harrison help make day trips even more enjoyable. Whether explorers or armchair adventurers, readers of all ages will find something that captures their interest in the nearly one hundred sites and forty photos included in Architecture Walks.
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