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Material witnesses : domestic architecture and plantation landscapes in early Virginia

Title
Material witnesses : domestic architecture and plantation landscapes in early Virginia / Camille Wells.
Author
Wells, Camille
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2018]

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Description
xiii, 309 pages; 24 cm
Uniform Title
Essays. Selections
Alternative Title
Essays.
Subject
  • 1700-1799
  • Architecture and society > Virginia > History > 18th century
  • Architecture, Colonial > Virginia > History > 18th century
  • Domestic space > Virginia > History > 18th century
  • Architecture and society
  • Architecture, Colonial
  • Domestic space
  • Virginia
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Recovering contours of a vanished Virginia -- The eighteenth-century landscape of Virginia's Northern Neck -- The planter's prospect : houses, outbuildings, and rural landscapes in eighteenth-century Virginia -- Dower play/power play : Menokin and the ordeal of elite house building in colonial Virginia -- Interior designs : room furnishings and historical interpretations at Colonial Williamsburg -- Deliberation on display : contributions to a furnishing plan for the Octagon -- Virginia by design : the making of Tuckahoe and the remaking of Monticello -- The Matthew Jones House : architectural analysis and education at a colonial Virginia site -- The multi-storied house : twentieth-century encounters with the domestic architecture of colonial Virginia.
Call Number
JQE 18-406
ISBN
  • 9780813940366
  • 0813940362
  • 9780813940373
  • 0813940370
LCCN
2017025400
OCLC
988171923
Author
Wells, Camille, author.
Title
Material witnesses : domestic architecture and plantation landscapes in early Virginia / Camille Wells.
Publisher
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2018]
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
1700-1799
Research Call Number
JQE 18-406
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