Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xvii, 398 pages, 28 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Subject

1. Architecture > United States
2. United States > History, Local
3. United States > Pictorial works

Contents

1. Oldest South : Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, and Mississippi -- On privacy and space : Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah -- Polygenetic South : the Carolinas, Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia -- Conquest of Canaan : Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut -- At one extreme : Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont -- Middle Atlantic states : New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania -- Tobacco and paper : Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. -- Western adventures : Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Texas -- Great Lakes states : Minnesota, Ohio, Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Indiana -- Some reflections on Winchesters and corn fields : the Dakotas, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska -- Mountain states : Colorado, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming -- Imperial basin : Oregon, California, Washington, Hawaii, and Alaska.
2. How the University of Virginia became Ohio, and other thoughts about original sin -- Field guide to the southern Greek revival -- Search for the source : the heroism of Giacomo Beltrami -- Self-conscious frontier : the heroism of Henry Hastings Sibley -- Wild jackass of the prairie : the heroism of Ignatius Donnelly -- Bluegrass chivalry : Margaret Johnson, Richard Mentor Johnson, and Julia Chinn -- Francis Parkman and the evidence of France.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. "A National Trust for Historic Preservation book."

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-384) and index.