Maine Cottages Fred L. Savage and the Architecture of Mount Desert

Name: Maine Cottages Fred L. Savage and the Architecture of Mount Desert
Price: 132.75 USD
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ISBN: 9781568983172

ISBN-10: 1568983174

ISBN-13: 9781568983172

Edition: 2005

Authors: John M. Bryan, Richard Cheek

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Mount Desert has been one of America's favorite tourist destinations since the end of the nineteenth century. The lush landscape of this island on the Maine coast attracted artists and writers as early as the 1840s, who soon made Mount Desert's beauty famous with their paintings and publications. The stream of tourists that began traveling to the island after the Civil War prompted a building boom of cottages, hotels, and other buildings in Bar Harbor and other towns in the vicinity. Fred Savage (1861-1924) was the most influential architect in the development of Mount Desert and northeastern Maine, designing over three hundred buildings. Richly illustrated with archival drawings,…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Publication date: 4/7/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 9.25" wide x 12.00" long x 1.20" tall
Weight: 4.180
Language: English

John M. Bryan is Professor of Art History at the University of South Carolina, Columbia & author of G. W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate.