Newport Through Its Architecture A History of Styles from Postmedieval to Postmodern

Name: Newport Through Its Architecture A History of Styles from Postmedieval to Postmodern
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ISBN: 9781584654919

ISBN-10: 1584654910

ISBN-13: 9781584654919

Edition: 2005

Authors: James Yarnall

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A remarkable coincidence of unplanned historical events has preserved Newport, Rhode Island's architectural heritage in a way that is rare among American cities. Newport has the largest number of pre-Revolutionary War buildings in North America, with some 800 in its old historic districts. In the nineteenth century, Newport was the summer home to America's most prominent families and patrons of outstanding architecture. With a diverse range of styles, Newport exemplified the greatness of mid-nineteenth-century American architecture. As Newport gained social importance in the 1880s, the Bellevue Avenue and Ochre Point neighborhoods became the sites of lavish Beaux-Arts palatial residences. …

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University Press of New England
Publication date: 8/18/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 324
Size: 8.50" wide x 11.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 3.498
Language: English



Foreword



Preface and Acknowledgments


A Geographical and Historical Note on Aquidneck Island


Introduction


The Postmedieval Jacobean Style and Newport's Founding


The Georgian Styles before the Revolutionary War


Federal and Greek Revival Architecture, 1780-1840


The Gothic Revival of the 1830s and 1840s


The Italian Villa and Italianate Architecture of the 1850s


The French Roof and the Civil War Era


The Stick Style of the 1860s and 1870s


Queen Anne Variants, 1870-1890


The Shingle Style before 1885


The Colonial Revival after 1885


The Beginnings of Beaux-Arts Newport, 1880-1890


Richard Morris Hunt and the Beaux-Arts, 1888-1895


The Beaux-Arts and Academic Eclecticism in the Twentieth Century


Modernism from the Bauhaus to Postmodernism


Appendix: A Brief Listing of Selected Newport Buildings by Architect


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index