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

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1992-11-11

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Peatross, C. Ford

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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)

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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.)‏

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