Architecture, Men, Women, and Money in America, 1600-1860

New York: Random House, 1986. xvi, 526 pages, illustrations; 26 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light cornerwear, age toning. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket, with light edgewear, protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Profusely illustrated. CONTENTS: PART I, THE ATLANTIC PROGRESSION: STEPPING ASHORE: Palladio and the Plantation; Sugar, Slaves and Architecture; Dutch Colonial; The Caribbean Cottage. PART II, GOING ASHORE TO STAY ASHORE: TRANSITIONAL ARCHITECTURE ASHORE: Anglo-Dutch Provincial; Home and Land; Yankees and West Indians; Charleston; Savannah: William Jay and Robert Mills; An Upcountry Boomtown. PART III, THE CLASSIC PERIOD: SPECULATORS, STAGECRAFT AND STATECRAFT: Classic in Context; Nicholas Biddle; Mobile and Yankee Classicism; The Halifax Whigs. PART IV, ACROSS THE MOUNTAINS: ORPHEUS OBSERVED: The Carter Mansion; The Legitimate Succession; Cotton Pull; Pericles and Tara; Elegance and Terror: The Wade Hamptons; Natchez, and the Nutts; Samuel Sloan and the Octagon; Building Longwood. PART V, PIVOT POINT: HELLENISM IN THE NORTH: Solid Citizens in Indiana; Salt Pork, Railroads and War; The American Picturesque; Minnesota Gothic; The Career of William Gates LeDuc; Afterword; Bibliography; Notes; Index.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to. Collectible.