The American Home: An Emblem of Republican Virtue, Democratic Ideals, and Independent Thinking

Architectural projects and/or sites mentioned: Great Wall of China (500 B.C.E. - 1667) (China) ; Villa Giustinian (Tullio Lombardo, 1510-1520) (Roncade, Italy) ; Villa Pisani (Andrea Palladio, 1552) (Montagnana, Italy) ; Villa Cornaro (Andrea Palladio, 1552-1588) (Piombino Dese, Italy) ; Villa Badoer (Andrea Palladio, 1556) (Fratta Polesine, Italy) ; Federal Hall (Pierre-Charles L'Enfant, 1699-1704/1788) (New York, New York) ; Mount Vernon (George Washington, 1735/1758/1774/1776) (Mount Vernon, Virginia) ; Drayton Hall (1738-1742) (Charleston, South Carolina) ; The Lindens (1754) (Washington, D.C.) ; Cupola House (Francis Corbin, 1756-1758) (Edenton, North Carolina) ; Mount Airy (John Ariss, 1758-1844) (Warsaw, Virginia) ; Vassall-Craigie-Longfellow House (1759) (Cambridge, Massachusetts) ; Kedleston Hall (Robert Adam, 1760-1771) (Kedleston, United Kingdom) ; Mount Pleasant (Thomas Nevell, 1761) (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) ; Miles Brewton House (Ezra Waite, 1765) (Charleston, South Carolina) ; Monticello (Thomas Jefferson, 1770-1808) (Charlottesville, Virginia) ; Lansdowne Mansion (1773-1777) (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) ; Charles Ridgely House (Charles Ridgely, 1783-1790) (Hampton, Maryland) ; Mordecai House (Joel Lane and William Nichols, 1785/1824) (Raleigh, North Carolina) ; National Mall (Pierre-Charles L'Enfant, 1791-1922) (Washington, D.C.) ; White House (James Hoban and Charles Follen McKim, 1792) (Washington, D.C.) ; United States Capitol (Benjamin Henry Latrobe and Charles Bulfinch and Thomas Ustick Walter, 1793/1868) (Washington, D.C.) ; South Carolina Branch Bank of United States (Gabriel Manigault, 1800-1804) (Charleston, South Carolina) ; Rotunda, University of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson and Robert Mills and Stanford White, 1817-1826) (Charlottesville, Virginia) ; Sandford House (William Nichols, 1818) (Fayetteville, North Carolina) ; Eagle Lodge (William Nichols, 1823) (Hillsborough, North Carolina) ; Plan, University of Virginia (Thomas Jefferson, 1825) (Charlottesville, Virginia) ; New York Branch Bank of United States (Martin Euclid Thompson, 1825) (New York, New York) ; Alabama State House (William Nichols, 1827-1829) (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) ; Belle Mont Mansion (1828) (Tuscumbia, Alabama) ; Mississippi State Capitol (William Nichols, 1839) (Jackson, Mississippi) ; Florida State Capitol (Frank Millburn and Henry John Klutho, 1845/1902/1923/1936/1947) (Tallahassee, Florida) ; Nichols-Rice-Cherry House (Ebenezer Nichols, 1850) (Houston, Texas) ; Texas State Capitol (1853) (Austin, Texas) ; Myrtle-Vale (Dewberry House) (1854) (Bullard, Texas) ; Major Peter Walton House (1854) (Plantersville, Texas) ; Whetstone House (1864) (Marshall, Texas) ; Allen Lewis House (1870) (Galveston, Texas) ; William G. Low House (McKim, Mead & White, 1887) (Bristol, Rhode Island) ; Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1889-1898) (Oak Park, Illinois) ; A Home in a Prairie Town (unbuilt) (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1900) ; McCormick House (unbuilt) (Frank Lloyd Wright, 1907) (Lake Bluff, Illinois) ; Pabellón Mies van der Rohe (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1929) (Barcelona, Spain) ; Seagram Building (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson and Kahn & Jacobs, 1954-1958) (New York, New York) ; Vanna Venturi House (Venturi and Rauch, 1962) (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) ; La Villa a Voile Nomijima (Norihiko Dan, 1989) (Hiroshima, Japan) ; Ferguson-Long House (Pickensville, Alabama)

Subject

Architecture--Environmental aspects
Architecture--Southern States
Architecture, American
Architecture, Colonial--United States
Capitols
College campuses
Pattern books
Pediments--United States
Porticoes
Public architecture
Regionalism in architecture
Republicanism
Verandas
Vernacular architecture
Architectural review (London, England)
At home : the American family, 1750-1870
Dallas (Television program)
Domestic architecture of the American Colonies and of the early republic
Hints on public architecture
History of architecture
North Carolina architecture
Select architecture
Sloan's architectural review and builders' journal
The builder's jewel
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959. Wasmuth portfolio
Alofsin, Anthony
Birch, William Russell, 1755-1834
Bishir, Catherine W.
Breckinridge, Lucy Gilmer, 1843-1865
Brettingham, Matthew, 1699-1769
Burkhardt, E. Walter
Caesar, Julius
Dan, Norihiko, 1956-
Gamble, Robert S.
Garrett Widmer, Elisabeth, 1946-
Harris, John, 1931-
Hoban, James, approximately 1762-1831
Holt, Jacob W., 1811-1880
Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1864-1952
Katzman, Leonard, 1927-1996
Kimball, Fiske, 1888-1955
Langley, Batty, 1696-1751
Latrobe, Benjamin Henry, 1764-1820
L'Enfant, Pierre-Charles 1754-1825
Lombardo, Tullio
Lynch, Kevin, 1918-1984
Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, 1886-1969
Moore, Gabriel, approximately 1785-1845
Morris, Robert, 1701-1754
Nichols, William, approximately 1777-1853
Owen, Robert Dale, 1801-1877
Palladio, Andrea, 1508-1580
Peatross, C. Ford
Penn, John, 1729-1795
Rapoport, Amos
Scott Brown, Denise, 1931-
Scully, Vincent, Jr., 1920-
Sloan, Samuel, 1815-1884
Speck, Lawrence W., 1949-
Stern, Robert A.M.
Swain, David L. (David Lowry), 1801-1868
Tebbs, Robert W., 1875-1945
Thornton, William, 1759-1828
Tuthill, Louisa C. (Louisa Caroline), 1798-1879
Washington, George, 1732-1799
Venturi, Robert
Wright, Frank Lloyd, 1867-1959
Bank of the United States (1816-1836)
Celotex Corporation
Center for Architecture, Design and Engineering (U.S.)
Cooper-Hewitt Museum
Historic American Buildings Survey
Library of Congress
McKim, Mead & White
Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)‏
National Gallery of Art (U.S.)
Smithsonian Institution‏
Society of Architectural Historians
Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture‏
University of Alabama
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of Texas at Austin. Center for American Architecture and Design
University of Virginia
Alabama
Austin (Tex.)
Bath (England)
Birmingham (Ala.)‏
Bristol (R.I. : Town)‏
Bullard (Tex.)
Cambridge (Mass.)
Charleston (S.C.)
Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Danvers (Mass.)‏
Edenton (N.C.)
Fayetteville (N.C.)
Galveston (Tex.)
Hampton (Md.)
Hillsborough (N.C.)
Houston (Tex.)
Louisiana
Marshall (Tex.)‏
Mississippi
Missouri
Montagnana (Italy)
North Carolina
Philadelphia (Pa.)
Pickensville (Ala.)
Plantersville (Tex.)
Potomac River
Raleigh (N.C.)
Roncade (Italy)
Seaside (Fla.)
Shenandoah River Valley (Va. and W. Va.)
Silver Spring (Md.)‏
South Carolina
Texas
Tuscaloosa (Ala.)‏
Washington (D.C.)‏
Wilmington (Del.)‏

URI

http://hdl.handle.net/2152/65132

Citation

University of Texas at Austin School of Architecture archives, Alexander Architectural Archives, University of Texas Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin

Collections

School of Architecture Event Recordings