Arts & crafts architecture : history and heritage in New England
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Lyons Public Library - Adult Nonfiction
720.974 MEI
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xvi, 288 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread throughout New England at the turn of the twentieth century. Although interest in the Arts and Crafts movement has grown since the 1970s, the literature on New England has focused on craft production. Meister traces the history of the movement from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century England to its arrival in the United States and describes how Boston architects including H. H. Richardson embraced its tenets in the 1870s and 1880s. She then turns to the next generation of designers, examining buildings by twelve of the region's most prominent architects, eleven men and a woman, who assumed leadership roles in the Society of Arts and Crafts, founded in Boston in 1897. Among them are Ralph Adams Cram, Lois Lilley Howe, Charles Maginnis, and H. Langford Warren. They promoted designs based on historical precedent and the region's heritage while encouraging well-executed ornament. Meister also discusses revered cultural personalities who influenced the architects, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson and art historian Charles Eliot Norton, as well as contemporaries who shared their concerns, such as Louis Brandeis. Conservative though the architects were in the styles they favored, they also were forward-looking, blending Arts and Crafts values with Progressive Era idealism. Open to new materials and building types, they made lasting contributions, with many of their designs now landmarks honored in cities and towns across New England." -- Publisher's description.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Meister, M. (2014). Arts & crafts architecture: history and heritage in New England . University Press of New England.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Meister, Maureen. 2014. Arts & Crafts Architecture: History and Heritage in New England. Hanover ; London: University Press of New England.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Meister, Maureen. Arts & Crafts Architecture: History and Heritage in New England Hanover ; London: University Press of New England, 2014.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Meister, Maureen. Arts & Crafts Architecture: History and Heritage in New England University Press of New England, 2014.

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