Research Catalog

Title

Buildings of Virginia : Tidewater and Piedmont / edited by Richard Guy Wilson ; with contributions by Sara Butler ... [et al.].

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2002.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilson, Richard Guy, 1940-
• Butler, Sara A., 1952-
• Society of Architectural Historians.

Description

xxii, 570 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Buildings of the United States

Uniform Title

Buildings of the United States.

Alternative Title

Tidewater and Piedmont

Subject

• Architecture > Virginia > Guidebooks
• Historic buildings > Virginia > Guidebooks
• Virginia > Guidebooks

Genre/Form

Guidebooks

Note

• At head of series t.p.: Society of Architectural Historians.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 493-504) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The contours of Eastern Virginia's built environment -- Native American habitation -- early settlement (1607-c. 1720) -- Eighteenth-century change (c. 1720-c. 1780) -- Nineteenth-century prosperity (c. 1780-c. 1840) -- Decline, recovery, and the revival of the past (c. 1840-c. 1940) -- Modernism, tradition, and large-scale growth (c. 1940-c. 2000) -- Northern Virginia (nv) -- Arlington County -- Fairfax and Prince William counties -- Alexandria (al) -- Old Town -- Downtown and west end -- Alexandria suburbs -- Northern Piedmont [np] -- Loudoun Cunty -- Fauquier County -- Piedmont (pi).

ISBN

0195152069

LCCN

^^2002001454

OCLC

• 48468655
• SCSB-12018524

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library