In the second volume that focuses on the great New York City town houses, Michael Kathrens continues to explore magnificent residences, both celebrated and ...
The first book to place the rustic Adirondack architectural style in the context of the cultural, social, and environmental history, An Elegant Wilderness, showcases ...
Gardens for a Beautiful America, 1895- 1935, written by Sam Watters and published in collaboration with the Library of Congress, presents for the first ...
A study of Chicago's grand city houses. It includes profiles of thirty four house, illustrated with restored archival photographs and floor plans. It also ...
.In 1869, when Edith Wharton's aunt Mary Mason Jones (immortalised as Mrs. Manson Mingot in "The Age of Innocence") finished her French classical house ...
