Architects to the Nation: The Rise and Decline of the Supervising Architect's Office

by Antoinette J. Lee

Overview

"A work of impeccable scholarship that brings an enormous amount of new information to light. Drawing from federal archives, agency and congressional reports, and architectural journals of the period, [Lee] develops a detailed and definitive history... Lee gives us a sense of the rich legacy of public buildings that begs our attention." CRM

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780190284497
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/20/2000
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	16 MB
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About the Author

Goucher College

Table of Contents

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, William Seale1. Prelude2. No Blueprint for the New Nation, 1789-18513. THe Bureau of Construction and the Corps of Engineers, 1852-18654. Alfred B. Mullett, 1866-18745. The Supervising Architect's Office in the Gilded Age, 1875-18966. The Tarsney Act, Its Passage and Postponement in Implementation, 1893-19397. Proponents of "Academic Classicism," 1895-19258. The Public Buildings Program in Eras of Affluence and Depression, 1926-1939Epilogue