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1 online resource (xiv, 273 pages) : illustrations |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- CONNECTICUT -- 1. ICONIC MODERNISM: The Glass House of Philip Johnson, New Canaan -- 2. THREE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ARCHITECTURAL TREASURES ON THE CONNECTICUT SHORE: Bush-Holley House, Cos Cob; Ogden House, Fairfield; and Judson House, Stratford -- 3. TWO ARCHITECTURAL ECCENTRICITIES: Gillette Castle and Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam -- 4. A BUSTLING, CAREFULLY PRESERVED COLONIAL VILLAGE: Litchfield -- 5. A MODERNIST CHURCH IN THE SHAPE OF A FISH First: Presbyterian Church, Stamford -- 6. FROM McKIM, MEAD & WHITE TO CESAR PELLI: The Architects of Waterbury -- 7. A WALK THROUGH THE "JEWEL OF LONG ISLAND SOUND": Southport -- 8. TRADITION MEETS THE CONTEMPORARY: Yale University Architecture, New Haven -- 9. EXUBERANT VICTORIANA: The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, Norwalk -- 10. EXCEPTIONAL STAINED GLASS, BOTH TRADITIONAL AND MODERN: Bethel, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Greenwich, Old Greenwich, Stamford, and Waterbury -- 11. HISTORIC SITES IN A COASTAL COMMUNITY: Guilford -- 12. CONTRASTING ARCHITECTURAL NEIGHBORS: Bridgeport -- And Keep in Mind . . . -- 13. BERLIN HISTORIC DISTRICT -- 14. TWO FORTS NEAR NEW HAVEN -- 15. HOTCHKISS CLOCKTOWER, SHARON -- 16. MILFORD'S WHARF LANE COMPLEX -- NEW YORK STATE: LOWER HUDSON VALLEY, EAST -- 1. SUNNYSIDE: One of America's Favorite Houses, Irvington -- 2. FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT'S "USONIA": A Planned Community, Pleasantville -- 3. BUDDHIST SYMBOLS AND INFLUENCES IN RURAL PUTNAM COUNTY: Chuang Yen Monastery, Carmel -- 4. BOSCOBEL: A Hudson River Estate in the Federal Style, Garrison -- 5. MANITOGA/THE RUSSELL WRIGHT CENTER: Unique Architecture by a Prominent Twentieth- Century Designer of Decorative Arts, Garrison -- 6. PHILIPSBURG MANOR: Northern Plantation Style, Tarrytown -- 7. LYNDHURST: A Romantic Castle, Tarrytown -- 8. KYKUIT: Palatial Glamour in a Classical Revival Estate, Pocantico Hills -- And Keep in Mind . . . -- 9. THE OLD DUTCH CHURCH OF SLEEPY HOLLOW: A VERY EARLY HOUSE OF WORSHIP, NORTH TARRYTOWN -- 10. UNION CHURCH OF POCANTICO HILLS: WHERE CHAGALL AND ARCHITECTURE MEET -- 11. VAN CORTLANDT MANOR: AN EXAMPLE OF A DUTCH PATENT HOUSE, CROTON-ON-HUDSON -- NEW YORK STATE: MID-HUDSON VALLEY, EAST -- 1. THE ITALIANATE STYLE OF AMERICA'S RENAISSANCE: MAN Samuel F. B. Morse's Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie -- 2. SPECTACULAR CAMPUS ADDITIONS BY FRANK GEHRY AND RAFAEL VIÑOLY: Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson -- 3. A McKIM, MEAD & WHITE EXTRAVAGANZA IN THE BEAUX ARTS STYLE: The Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park -- 4. ALEXANDER JACKSON DAVIS AND ANDREW JACKSON DOWNING JOIN FORCES ON A HUDSON RIVER ESTATE: Montgomery Place, Annandale-on-Hudson -- 5. TOURING ARCHITECTURAL HISTORY ON A VENERABLE CAMPUS: Vassar College, Poughkeepsie -- 6. THE ARTIST'S IMAGINATION IN A DRAMATIC MOORISH PALACE: Olana, Hudson -- 7. THE "PICTURESQUE" IN ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE DESIGN: Wilderstein, Rhinebeck -- 8. RICHARD UPJOHN'S VENTURE INTO SECULAR ITALIANATE ARCHITECTURE: Lindenwald, the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, Kinderhook -- 9. MILLS MANSION: A McKim, Mead & White Estate, Staatsburg -- And Keep in Mind . . . -- 10. WING'S CASTLE, MILLBROOK -- 11. CLERMONT, GERMANTOWN -- NEW YORK STATE: WEST OF THE HUDSON -- 1. THE STONE HOUSES OF HUGUENOT STREET: New Paltz -- 2. ROMANTIC CASTLE RUINS ON AN ISLAND: Bannerman's Castle, Pollepel Island -- 3. ENVIRONMENTAL ART -- OR ARCHITECTURE: Opus 40, Woodstock -- 4. A VICTORIAN WATERFRONT VILLAGE: Historic Rondout, Kingston -- 5. EXPLORING THE STOCKADE DISTRICT: Kingston -- 6. A RUSTIC VILLAGE OF EARLY DUTCH AND HUGUENOT DESIGN: Hurley -- 7. GOTHIC SPLENDOR AT THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: West Point -- And Keep in Mind . . . -- 8. THE "COTTAGES" OF ELEGANT ONTEORA PARK, JEWETT -- NEW YORK STATE: LONG ISLAND -- 1. OLD BETHPAGE VILLAGE RESTORATION: Rural Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Long Island -- 2. MELDING EAST AND WEST: The Charles B. Wang Center at SUNY - Stony Brook -- 3. THE GILDED LIFE: Three Glamorous Long Island Estates of the Early Twentieth Century: Eagle's Nest (the Vanderbilt Museum), Centerport; Westbury House, Old Westbury; and Falaise, Sands Point -- 4. A GOTHIC REVIVAL LANDMARK: The Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City -- 5. BEACHFRONT, DECO-ERA ICON: Jones Beach, Wantagh -- 6. IN SEARCH OF HISTORIC ARCHITECTURE: Stony Brook, Setauket, East Setauket, and Smithtown -- 7. ROSLYN PRESERVES THE PAST: Visiting Cedarmere and Other Pleasures of the Nineteenth Century -- 8. EXPLORING THE LONG ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE: Eaton's Neck Light, Huntington Harbor Light, Old Field Light, Stepping Stones Light, and Others -- 9. LOOKING AT WINDMILLS ON THE EASTERN END OF LONG ISLAND: Water Mill Museum, Beebe Windmill, Hook Windmill, and Pantigo Windmill -- And Keep in Mind . . . -- 10. FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, GLEN COVE -- 11. BROOKLYN WATERWORKS, FREEPORT -- 12. ROCK HALL MUSEUM, LAWRENCE -- 13. SAINT GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH, HEMPSTEAD -- NEW JERSEY -- 1. AN EARLY QUAKER COMMUNITY WITH A COLONIAL AND FEDERAL STREETSCAPE: Mount Holly -- 2. WHERE THOMAS EDISON LIVED AND WORKED: Glenmont and the Edison National Historic Sites, West Orange -- 3. A COLONIAL STREETSCAPE ON THE DELAWARE: The Well-Preserved Town of Burlington -- 4. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY'S STARTLING CONTEMPORARY ADDITIONS TO ITS GOTHIC CAMPUS: Princeton -- 5. A BAUHAUS-INSPIRED UTOPIAN VILLAGE: Roosevelt -- 6. GUARDIANS OF THE NEW JERSEY COASTLINE: The Lighthouse as Architecture: Sandy Hook, Barnegat, Navesink, Cape May, Hereford Inlet, East Point, Finn's Point -- 7. CRAF TSMAN FARMS: The Arts and Crafts Aesthetic, Morris Plains -- 8. A VICTORIAN VILLAGE ON THE SHORE: The Planned Community of Ocean Grove -- 9. THREE ARCHITECTURAL WONDERS AT LIBERTY STATE PARK: Railroad Terminal, Environmental Center, and Ellis Island -- 10. A VICTORIAN STREETSCAPE OF DECORATIVE HOUSES: Belvidere -- 11. RURAL VILLAGES OF THE PAST: Walnford, Allaire, Batsto, and Feltville -- 12. A FANCIFUL VICTORIAN SEASIDE RESORT: Cape May -- 13. AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY MORAVIAN VILLAGE BUILT OF STONE: Hope -- 14. ARCHITECTURAL PLEASURES IN A HISTORIC TOWN SETTING: Perth Amboy -- 15. SKYLANDS: A Deliberately "Aged" Mansion by John Russell Pope, Ringwood -- And Keep in Mind . . . -- 16. DICKINSON HOUSE: A PATTERNED BRICK HOUSE IN ALLOWAY TOWNSHIP -- 17. A PICTURESQUE RAILROAD STATION, TENAFLY -- 18. BUCCLEIGH: A GEORGIAN MANSION, NEW BRUNSWICK -- 19. THE RUINS OF UNDERCLIFF: "BLOOMER'S BEACH," ENGLEWOOD -- 20. THE RUINS OF LONG POND, HEWITT -- 21. A RIVERSIDE MILL AND HISTORIC VILLAGE, CLINTON -- 22. A LOUIS KAHN ICON: THE "TRENTON" BATHHOUSE, EWING -- DELAWARE AND PENNSYLVANIA -- 1. FROM GEORGIAN BRICK TO GOTHIC REVIVAL: The Historic River Town of New Castle, Delaware -- 2. GREY TOWERS: A French-Style Château in Rural Pennsylvania, Milford -- 3. PYRAMIDS, GOTHIC ARCHES, AND CLASSICAL TEMPLES: West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania -- 4. MODERNISM MEETS SYMBOLISM: Frank Lloyd Wright's Beth Sholom Synagogue, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania -- 5. HENRY CHAPMAN MERCER LEAVES HIS "ARTS AND CRAFTS" MARK ON A SMALL TOWN: Doylestown, Pennsylvania -- 6. A WALKING TOUR THROUGH A TREASURE TROVE OF HISTORIC HOUSES: Doylestown, Pennsylvania -- 7. A NINETEENTH-CENTURY RAILROAD VIADUCT BALANCING PROGRESS AND NATURAL BEAUTY: Starrucca Viaduct, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania -- And Keep in Mind . . . -- 8. AN ARCHITECTURAL DRIVE THROUGH NORTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA: From Milford to Cortez -- 9. A HISTORIC VILLAGE AND WILLIAM PENN'S ESTATE: Fallsington and Morrisville, Pennsylvania -- 10. AN EARLY ROEBLING SUSPENSION BRIDGE: Lackawaxen, Pennsylvania -- Glossary of Architectural Styles in the Region -- Choosing an Outing -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS |
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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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Architecture -- New York Region -- Guidebooks
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ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism.
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Regional.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Walking.
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Architecture
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New York Region -- Guidebooks
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United States -- New York Region
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Guidebooks
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Electronic book
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Harrison, Marina, 1939-
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0813549167 |
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9780813549163 |
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