The architect & the American country house, 1890-1940 / Mark Alan Hewitt ; architectural photographs by Richard Cheek

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1990. First Edition. Hardcover. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; xiii, 312 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 31 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-307) and index. Contents; Preface -- 1. Rich men and their houses -- 2. Gentlemen architects -- 3. The architecture of country houses: style and typology -- 4. Stately homes: the aristocratic model of domestic culture -- 5. Country places: the house and garden movement -- 6. Regional traditions: indigenous models for domestic culture -- 7. Modernist experiments -- 8. Domestic eclecticism: a summary -- Epilogue -- Architects' biographies. Subjects; Country homes United States. Country homes United States ; Pictorial works. Architects and patrons. Country homes. Manners and customs. Country homes United States. Architects and patrons United States. United States Social life and customs 20th century. United States Social life and customs 20th century. Country houses Architecture History. United States. Architects U.S.A. Architecture Domestic U.S.A. 19th,20th centuries. Country houses U.S.A. Genres; Bibliography. Illustrated. Illustrated works. Pictorial works.