Inventing the New American House: Howard Van Doren Shaw, Architect
By Stuart Cohen
Hardcover
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By Stuart Cohen
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A timely reappraisal of the importance of Howard Van Doren Shaw, a country house architect better known in his day than Frank Lloyd Wright but now an obscure figure.
Howard Van Doren Shaw designed stately country houses in and around Chicago - from affluent Lake Forest, Illinois, and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Indiana - from 1894 to 1926, a period in American architecture that spanned the Gilded Age, the adoption of Beaux-Arts classicism as the ideal for civic arch...






















