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

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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 ...

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Overview

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.

Newport's twentieth-century architecture explored all modern currents, ranging from progressive Bauhaus functionalism as it evolved into the International Style of the 1950s to more conservative Art Deco and Scandinavian Modernism. After 1975, the postmodern era gave rise to a spirit of preservation and adaptive reuse, inspiring the Modern Traditionalism of architects such as Robert A. M. Stern. In a more vernacular vein, postmodern shopping centers, restaurants, and commercial establishments provided fertile ground for an especially well-informed postmodern kitsch.

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"From Peter Harrison to Pietro Belluschi, Newport's architects and builders have left a remarkable legacy of great--and often groundbreaking--design. Happily, a strong local commitment to preservation (such as that demonstrated by Salve Regina University) has kept much of this legacy intact--and now Professor James Yarnall has produced a book that celebrates this historic city's treasures with exemplary scholarship and clarity. These pages should inspire everyone who cares about America's architectural heritage to schedule a trip to Newport right away." --Richard Moe, President, National Trust for Historic Preservation

"Makes a significant contribution, not only to the history of architecture in Newport, but also to the history of architecture in the United States . . . descriptive enough to satisfy the architectural scholar, while at the same time explanatory enough to allow the casual reader to appreciate the field."--M. Hunter Ulf, Vice President, New England Chapter, American Institute of Architects

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781584654919
  • Publisher: University Press of New England
  • Publication date: 8/18/2005
  • Pages: 324
  • Sales rank: 1,314,517
  • Product dimensions: 8.80 (w) x 11.10 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

JAMES L. YARNALL is an assistant professor in the Department of Art at Salve Regina University in Newport, Rhode Island, where he teaches art and architectural history. He also offers courses in the University's Cultural and Historic Preservation Program.
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Table of Contents

Foreword - M. Therese Antone, R.S.M.
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
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