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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 : illustrations; 24 cm

Uniform Title

Essays. Selections

Alternative Title

Essays.

Subject

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.

ISBN

9780813940366
0813940362
9780813940373
0813940370

LCCN

2017025400
40028081737

OCLC

ocn988171923
988171923
SCSB-9040006

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries