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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 an...
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New Brunswick, NJ :
Rutgers University Press,
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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