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Architecture Walks: The Best Outings Near New York City
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by Lucy D. Rosenfeld, Marina Harrison
Lucy D. Rosenfeld
Architecture Walks: The Best Outings Near New York City
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by Lucy D. Rosenfeld, Marina Harrison
Lucy D. Rosenfeld
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Welcome to the fascinating world of Architecture Walksfrom 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.
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.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780813547343 |
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Publisher: | Rutgers University Press |
Publication date: | 01/25/2010 |
Series: | Rivergate Book Series |
Pages: | 288 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d) |
About the Author
LUCY D. ROSENFELD is the author of more than twenty-five books on art, travel, and architecture, including The Architect's Garden: 45 Original Landscapes.MARINA HARRISON, an editor, has published eight books with Lucy D. Rosenfeld, among them History Walks in New Jersey and A Guide to Green New Jersey, featured in the New York Times (both Rutgers University Press). Lifelong friends, the authors continue to work together on a variety of projects.
Table of Contents
Preface CONNECTICUT Iconic Modernism The Glass House of Philip Johnson, New Canaan Three Eighteenth-Century Architectural Treasures on the Connecticut Shore Bush-Holley House, Cos Cob; Ogden House, Fairfield; and Judson House, Stratford Two Architectural Eccentricities Gillette Castle and Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam A Bustling, Carefuly Preserved Colonial Village Litchfield A Modernist Church in the Shape of a Fish First Presbyterian Church, Stamford From McKim, Mead & White to Cesar Pelli The Architects of Waterbury A Walk Through the &‘grave;Jewel of Long Island Sound'' Southport Tradition Meets the Contemporary Yale University Architecture, New Haven Exuberant Victoriana The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, Norwalk Exceptional Stained Glass, Both Traditional and Modern Bethel, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Greenwich, Old Greenwich, Stamford, and Waterbury Historic Sites in a Coastal Community Guilford Contrasting Architectural Neighbors Bridgeport And Keep in Mind Berlin Historic District Two Forts Near New Haven Hotchkiss Clocktower, Sharon Milford's Wharf Lane Complex NEW YORK STATE: LOWER HUDSON VALLEY, EAST Sunnyside One of America's Favorite Houses, Irvington Frank Lloyd Wright's &‘grave;Usonia'' A Planned Community, Pleasantville Buddhist Symbols and Influences in Rural Putnam County Chuang Yen Monastery, Carmel Boscobel A Hudson River Estate in the Federal Style, Garrison Manitoga/The Russell Wright Center Unique Architecture by a Noted Twentieth-Century Designer of Decorative Arts, Garrison Philipsburg Manor Northern Plantation Style, Tarrytown Lyndhurst A Romantic Castle, Tarrytown Kykuit Palatial Glamour in a Classical Revival Estate, Pocantico Hills And Keep in Mind The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow: A Very Early House of Worship, North Tarrytown Union Church of Pocantico Hills: Where Chagall and Architecture Meet Van Cortlandt Manor: An Example of a Dutch Patent House, Croton-On-Hudson NEW YORK STATE: MID-HUDSON VALLEY, EAST The Italianate Style of America's Renaissance Man Samuel F. B. Morse's Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie Spectacular Campus Additions Frank Gehry and Rafael Vinoly A McKim, Mead & White Extravaganza in the Beaux Arts Style The Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park Alexander Jackson Davis and Andrew Jackson Downing Join Forces on a Hudson River Estate Montgomery Place, Annandale-on-Hudson Touring Architectural History on a Venerable Campus Vassar College, Poughkeepsie The Artist's Imagination in a Dramatic Moorish Palace Olana, Hudson The &‘grave;Picturesque'' in Architecture and Landscape Design Wilderstein, Rhinebeck Richard Upjohn's Venture into Secular Italianate Architecture Lindenwald, the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, Kinderhook Mills Mansion A McKim, Mead & White Estate, Staatsburg And Keep in Mind Wing's Castle, Millbrook Clermont, Germantown NEW YORK STATE: WEST OF THE HUDSON The Stone Houses of Huguenot Street New Paltz Romantic Castle Ruins on an Island Bannerman's Castle, Pollepel Island Environmental Art-Or Architecture Opus 40, Woodstock A Victorian Waterfront Village Historic Rondout, Kingston Exploring the Stockade District Kingston A Rustic Village of Early Dutch and Huguenot Design Hurley Gothic Splendor at the United States Military Academy West Point And Keep in Mind The &‘grave;Cottages'' of Elegant Onteora Park, Jewett NEW YORK STATE: LONG ISLAND Old Bethpage Village Restoration Rural Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Long Island Melding East and West The Charles B. Wang Center at Suny-Stony Brook The Gilded Life Three Glamorous Estates of the Early Twentieth Century: Eagle's Nest (the Vanderbilt Museum), Centerport; Westbury House, Old Westburg; and Falaise, Sands Point A Gothic Revival Landmark The Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City Beachfront, Deco-Era Icon Jones Beach, Wantagh In Search of Historic Architecture Stony Brook, Setauket, East Setauket, and Smithtown Roslyn Preserves the Past Visiting Cedarmere and Other Pleasures of the Nineteenth Century Exploring the Long Island Lighthouse Eaton's Neck Light, Huntington Harbor Light, Old Field Light, Stepping Stones Light, and Others Looking at Windmills on the Eastern end of Long Island Water Mill Museum, Beebe Windmill, Hook Windmill, and Pantigo Windmill And Keep in Mind First Presbyterian Church, Glen Cove Brooklyn Waterworks, Freeport Rock Hall Museum, Lawrence Saint George's Episcopal Church, Hempstead NEW JERSEY An Early Quaker Community with a Colonial and Federal Streetscape Mount HollyWhere Thomas Edison Lived and Worked Glenmont and the Edision National Historic Sites, West Orange A Colonial Streetscape on the Delaware The Well-Preserved Town of Burlington Princetion Unversity's Startling Contemporary Additions to its Gothic Campus Princeton A Bauhaus-Inspired Utopian Village Roosevelt Guardians of the New Jersey Coastline The Lighthouse as Architecture: Sandy Hook, Barnegat, Navesink, Cape May, Hereford Inlet, East Point, Finn's Point Craftsman Farms The Arts and Carfts Aesthetic, Morris Plains A Victorian Village on the Shore The Planned Community of Ocean Grove Three Archtectural Wonders at Liberty State Park Railroad Terminal, Environmental, Center, and Eillis Island A Victorian Streetscape of Decorative Houses Belvidere Rural Villages of the Past Walnfod, Allaire, Batsto, and Feltville A Fanciful Victorian Seaside Resort Cape May An Eighteenth-Century Moravian Village Built of Stone Hope Architectural Pleasures in a Historic Town Setting Perth Amboy Architectural Pleasures in a Historic Town Setting Perth Amboy Skylands A Deliberately &‘grave;Aged'' Mansion, Ringwood John Russell Pope And Keep in Mind Dickinson House: A Patterned Brick House in Alloway Township A Picturesque Railroad Station, Tenafly Buccleigh: A Georgian Mansion, New Brunswick The Ruins of Undercliff: &‘grave;Bloomer's Beach,'' Englewood The Ruins of Long Pond, Hewitt A Riverside Mill and Historic Village, Clinton A Lois Kahn Icon: The &‘grave;Trenton'' Bathhouse, Ewing DELAWARE AND PENNSYLVANIA From Georgian Brick to Gothic Revival The Historic River Town of New Castle, Delaware Grey Towers A French-Style Chateau in Rural Pennsylvaina, Milford Pyramids, Gothic Arches, and Classical Temples West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania Modernism Meets Symbolism Frank Lloyd Wright's Beth Sholom Synagogue, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania Henry Chapman Mercer Leaves his &‘grave;Arts and Crafts'' Mark on a Small Town Doylestown, Pennsylvania A Walking Tour Through a Trasure Trove of Historic Houses Doylestown, Pennsylvania A Nineteenth-Century Railroad Viaduct Balancing Progress and Natural Beauty Starrucca Viaduct, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania And Keep in Mind An Architectural Drive Through Northeastern Pennsylvania From Milford to Cortez A Historic Village and William Penn's Estate Fallsington and Morrisville, Pennsylvania An Early Roebling Suspension Bridge Lackwaxen, Pennsylvania Glossary of Architectural Styles in the Region Choosing an Outing
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