Washington's inhabitants have, over the years, included the elite, the powerful, and the well known figures that dominate the country's vaunted inner circles of politics, press, and diplomacy. This unprecedented volume presents the first true insider's look at Washington, ushering readers through the doorways of 26 of the city's most celebrated private homes and official residences. Newly commissioned photographs offer fabulous views, exterior and interior, of Washington's most prestigious addresses dating from 1790 to the present. Lively text places each home in its historical context, showing how its current residents have adapted it for contemporary life. The result is a rare, privileged look at life inside the Beltway.

Private Washington

History

Cigliano, Jan

Americas

Rizzoli

In cooperation with Western Reserve Historical Society Euclid Avenue, which runs through the heart of downtown Cleveland, was for 60 years one of the finest residential streets of any city in 19th century America. Showplace of America is the fascinating account of the rise and fall of this elegant promenade, including portrayals of the eminent architects who created its opulent residences and colorful details about the lives of the wealthy people who occupied them. The families who resided within this linear, four-mile neighborhood epitomized Midwestern grandeur in the second half of the 19th century. The 1893 Baedeker’s travel guide to the United States labeled it “one of the most beautiful residence-streets in America,” as others hailed it “Millionaires’ Row,” the finest avenue in the west, and the most beautiful street in the world.” Modeled after the grand boulevards of Europe, this magnificent neighborhood was distinguished for the prominence of its architects as well as the families who lived there. Local architects Jonathan Goldsmith, Charles W. Heard, Levi T. Scofield, Charles F. Schweinfurth, and Coburn &amp; Barnum and national firms Peabody &amp; Stearns and McKim, Mead &amp; White created houses that were stunning monuments to Cleveland and America’s growing prosperity. Ironically, the tremendous success of Cleveland’s industry and commerce, which had nurtured the rise of this grand avenue, fostered its fall. Downtown commerce expanded along the avenue at the sacrifice of its leading entrepreneurs’ residential have. The houses were demolished as the avenue became what is today―a neglected urban thoroughfare. Photographs and illustrations from the archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society and other repositories are published here for the first time, documenting both the glory and decline of the “showplace of America.”

Showplace of America: Cleveland's Euclid Avenue, 1850-1910 (Ohio)

Biographies & Memoirs

Historical

The Kent State University Press

Southport: The architectural legacy of a Connecticut village

Southport Conservancy

The Grand American Avenue 1850-1920

Cigliano, Jan, Octagon (Washington, D. C.)

Arts & Photography

Octagon (Washington, D. C.)

Photography & Video

Pomegranate

A new volume in our Classic Reprint Series 
The first issue of the legendary architecture journal Pencil Points appeared in 1920 as "a journal for the drafting room." Born out of The Architectural Review, and merged with Progressive Architecture in 1943, Pencil Points became the leading voice in architectural and graphic design when modernism flourished, introducing key players from America and Europe. It also established the agenda in architectural theory: multivolume pieces by John Harbeson, Talbot Hamlin, Hugh Ferris, and others dealt with major issues that are still relevant today-architectural education and practice, small-house design and portable housing, city planning, and the influence (or not) of modernism. Items like George Nelson's series of reports from Europe in the early 1930s, H. Van Buren Magonigle's diatribes against modernism, and a glossary of Ecole des Beaux-Arts terms sit side-by-side with the best architectural drawings and photographs of the 20th century. 
Pencil Points Reader re-publishes the most important essays from the journal's 23 years, arranged chronologically, and offers an insider's introduction by John Dixon, the former executive editor of Progressive Architecture. 
Pencil Points Reader is a prized collector's edition and an essential addition to any architectural library.

Pencil Points Reader: Selected Readings from a Journal for the Drafting Room, 1920-1943

Hartman, George E.

Architecture

Princeton Architectural Press

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