Lucy D Rosenfeld, Marina Harrison

Architecture Walks

The Best Outings Near New York City

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From reflections of three hundred years of history to expressions of the most modern design, Architecture Walks guides readers on a tour of nearly one hundred inspiring, informative, and aesthetically intriguing architectural treasures in and around New York and the surrounding area, including Connecticut, New Jersey, the eastern edge of Pennsylvania, and Delaware. This book also incorporates descriptions of architectural styles, suggestions for special adventures, lists of jaunts arranged by architect or designer, architectural style, and particular types of sites, and forty photos.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 481g
• ISBN-13: 9780813547343
• ISBN-10: 0813547342
• Artikelnr.: 28533379

Autorenporträt

Rosenfeld, Lucy D

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
     CONNECTICUT
          Iconic Modernism
               The Glass House of Philip Johnson, New Canaan
          Three Eighteenth-Century Architectural Treasures on the
Connecticut Shore
               Bush-Holley House, Cos Cob; Ogden House, Fairfield; and
Judson House, Stratford
          Two Architectural Eccentricities
               Gillette Castle and Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam
          A Bustling, Carefuly Preserved Colonial Village
               Litchfield
          A Modernist Church in the Shape of a Fish
               First Presbyterian Church, Stamford
          From McKim, Mead & White to Cesar Pelli
               The Architects of Waterbury
          A Walk Through the ``Jewel of Long Island Sound''
               Southport
          Tradition Meets the Contemporary
               Yale University Architecture, New Haven
          Exuberant Victoriana
               The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, Norwalk
          Exceptional Stained Glass, Both Traditional and Modern
               Bethel, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Greenwich, Old Greenwich,
Stamford, and Waterbury
          Historic Sites in a Coastal Community
               Guilford
          Contrasting Architectural Neighbors
               Bridgeport
               And Keep in Mind
          Berlin Historic District
          Two Forts Near New Haven
          Hotchkiss Clocktower, Sharon
          Milford's Wharf Lane Complex
     NEW YORK STATE: LOWER HUDSON VALLEY, EAST
          Sunnyside
               One of America's Favorite Houses, Irvington
          Frank Lloyd Wright's ``Usonia''
               A Planned Community, Pleasantville
          Buddhist Symbols and Influences in Rural Putnam County
               Chuang Yen Monastery, Carmel
          Boscobel
               A Hudson River Estate in the Federal Style, Garrison
          Manitoga/The Russell Wright Center
               Unique Architecture by a Noted Twentieth-Century Designer of
Decorative Arts, Garrison
          Philipsburg Manor
               Northern Plantation Style, Tarrytown
          Lyndhurst
               A Romantic Castle, Tarrytown
          Kykuit
               Palatial Glamour in a Classical Revival Estate, Pocantico
Hills And Keep in Mind
          The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow: A Very Early House of
Worship, North Tarrytown
          Union Church of Pocantico Hills: Where Chagall and Architecture
Meet
          Van Cortlandt Manor: An Example of a Dutch Patent House,
Croton-On-Hudson
     NEW YORK STATE: MID-HUDSON VALLEY, EAST
          The Italianate Style of America's Renaissance Man
               Samuel F. B. Morse's Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie
          Spectacular Campus Additions Frank Gehry and Rafael Vinoly
          A McKim, Mead & White Extravaganza in the Beaux Arts Style
               The Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park
          Alexander Jackson Davis and Andrew Jackson Downing Join Forces on
a Hudson River Estate
               Montgomery Place, Annandale-on-Hudson
          Touring Architectural History on a Venerable Campus
               Vassar College, Poughkeepsie
          The Artist's Imagination in a Dramatic Moorish Palace
               Olana, Hudson
          The ``Picturesque'' in Architecture and Landscape Design
               Wilderstein, Rhinebeck
          Richard Upjohn's Venture into Secular Italianate Architecture
               Lindenwald, the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site,
Kinderhook
          Mills Mansion
               A McKim, Mead & White Estate, Staatsburg And Keep in Mind
          Wing's Castle, Millbrook
          Clermont, Germantown
     NEW YORK STATE: WEST OF THE HUDSON
          The Stone Houses of Huguenot Street
               New Paltz
          Romantic Castle Ruins on an Island
               Bannerman's Castle, Pollepel Island
          Environmental Art---Or Architecture
               Opus 40, Woodstock
          A Victorian Waterfront Village
               Historic Rondout, Kingston
          Exploring the Stockade District
               Kingston
          A Rustic Village of Early Dutch and Huguenot Design
               Hurley
          Gothic Splendor at the United States Military Academy
               West Point And Keep in Mind
               The ``Cottages'' of Elegant Onteora Park, Jewett
     NEW YORK STATE: LONG ISLAND
          Old Bethpage Village Restoration
               Rural Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Long Island
          Melding East and West
               The Charles B. Wang Center at Suny-Stony Brook
          The Gilded Life
               Three Glamorous Estates of the Early Twentieth Century:
Eagle's Nest (the Vanderbilt Museum), Centerport; Westbury House, Old
Westburg; and Falaise, Sands Point
          A Gothic Revival Landmark
               The Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City
          Beachfront, Deco-Era Icon
               Jones Beach, Wantagh
          In Search of Historic Architecture
               Stony Brook, Setauket, East Setauket, and Smithtown
          Roslyn Preserves the Past
               Visiting Cedarmere and Other Pleasures of the Nineteenth
Century
          Exploring the Long Island Lighthouse
               Eaton's Neck Light, Huntington Harbor Light, Old Field
Light, Stepping Stones Light, and Others
          Looking at Windmills on the Eastern end of Long Island
               Water Mill Museum, Beebe Windmill, Hook Windmill, and
Pantigo Windmill And Keep in Mind
          First Presbyterian Church, Glen Cove
          Brooklyn Waterworks, Freeport
          Rock Hall Museum, Lawrence
          Saint George's Episcopal Church, Hempstead
     NEW JERSEY
          An Early Quaker Community with a Colonial and Federal Streetscape
               Mount Holly
          Where Thomas Edison Lived and Worked
               Glenmont and the Edision National Historic Sites, West
Orange
          A Colonial Streetscape on the Delaware
               The Well-Preserved Town of Burlington
          Princetion Unversity's Startling Contemporary Additions to its
Gothic Campus
               Princeton
          A Bauhaus-Inspired Utopian Village
               Roosevelt
          Guardians of the New Jersey Coastline
               The Lighthouse as Architecture: Sandy Hook, Barnegat,
Navesink, Cape May, Hereford Inlet, East Point, Finn's Point
          Craftsman Farms
               The Arts and Carfts Aesthetic, Morris Plains
          A Victorian Village on the Shore
               The Planned Community of Ocean Grove
          Three Archtectural Wonders at Liberty State Park
               Railroad Terminal, Environmental, Center, and Eillis Island
          A Victorian Streetscape of Decorative Houses
               Belvidere
          Rural Villages of the Past
               Walnfod, Allaire, Batsto, and Feltville
          A Fanciful Victorian Seaside Resort
               Cape May
          An Eighteenth-Century Moravian Village Built of Stone
               Hope
          Architectural Pleasures in a Historic Town Setting
               Perth Amboy
          Architectural Pleasures in a Historic Town Setting
               Perth Amboy
          Skylands
               A Deliberately ``Aged'' Mansion, Ringwood
                    John Russell Pope
               And Keep in Mind
          Dickinson House: A Patterned Brick House in Alloway Township
          A Picturesque Railroad Station, Tenafly
          Buccleigh: A Georgian Mansion, New Brunswick
          The Ruins of Undercliff: ``Bloomer's Beach,'' Englewood
          The Ruins of Long Pond, Hewitt
          A Riverside Mill and Historic Village, Clinton
          A Lois Kahn Icon: The ``Trenton'' Bathhouse, Ewing
     DELAWARE AND PENNSYLVANIA
          From Georgian Brick to Gothic Revival
               The Historic River Town of New Castle, Delaware
          Grey Towers
               A French-Style Chateau in Rural Pennsylvaina, Milford
          Pyramids, Gothic Arches, and Classical Temples
               West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania
          Modernism Meets Symbolism
               Frank Lloyd Wright's Beth Sholom Synagogue, Elkins Park,
Pennsylvania
          Henry Chapman Mercer Leaves his ``Arts and Crafts'' Mark on a
Small Town
               Doylestown, Pennsylvania
          A Walking Tour Through a Trasure Trove of Historic Houses
               Doylestown, Pennsylvania
          A Nineteenth-Century Railroad Viaduct Balancing Progress and
Natural Beauty
               Starrucca Viaduct, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania
               And Keep in Mind
          An Architectural Drive Through Northeastern Pennsylvania
               From Milford to Cortez
          A Historic Village and William Penn's Estate
               Fallsington and Morrisville, Pennsylvania
          An Early Roebling Suspension Bridge
          Lackwaxen, Pennsylvania
Glossary of Architectural Styles in the Region 
Choosing an Outing