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The first study of the origins and multiple expressions of New England's Arts and Crafts architecture

Title Arts & crafts architecture : history and heritage in New England / Maureen Meister.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Hanover : University Press of New England
Creation Date [2014]
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Introduction: grappling with modernity -- Dramatis personae: twelve architect-leaders -- Arts and crafts advocates, arts and crafts architects -- An intellectual stew: Emerson, Norton, Brandeis -- An arts and crafts movement emerges in New England -- Looking backward: from Romanesque to Gothic revival -- Looking backward: Colonial revival as arts and crafts -- Looking forward: building for the twentieth century -- Epilogue: confronting modernism.
Extent 1 online resource (321 p.)
Language English
Copyright Date ©2014
National Library system number 997010711999505171
MARC RECORDS
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