A survey of the Gilded Age mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, for all who love grand houses.Newport Villas describes the architectural and social development of this summer resort town, the nexus of wealth and fashion at the end of the nineteenth century. All the accoutrements were the best that money could buy, whether it was Parisian frocks, meticulously groomed thoroughbred horses, or meals prepared by imported French chefs. To properly mount their entertainments, Newport's elite built "cottages" that ranged in size from thirty to seventy rooms. The country's most accomplished architects designed these seaside villas, many of them rivaling the great houses of Europe. Pictured here in abundant archival and new photographs, with accompanying floor plans, the houses cover the gamut of revival styles from Colonial Revival to Italian Renaissance Revival, from French Classical Revival to Georgian Revival. 350 black &amp; white photographs and plans; 25 color photographs

Newport Villas: The Revival Styles 1885-1935

History

Kathrens, Michael C.

Americas

W.W.Norton&Company

Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938) was one of the most influential residential architects in the country house era that lasted from the late 19th century to 1930. His restrained limestone palaces and townhouses for the super rich defined a new elegance in American cities and seaside resorts. A publicity-shy Philadelphian without social connections and only 10th grade education, Trumbauer opened his own practice, at the age of 21. Within just a few years he was on his way to becoming a leading practitioner of residential design on the grandest scale. No American builder in the first three decades of the 20th century could equal Trumbauer s output in the sheer number and splendor of his commissions. His large mansions were typically designed in English or French taste, and whether they were in the Whitemarsh Valley outside Philadelphia or new the ocean in Newport, Rhode Island, Trumbauer s houses had the imposing aristocratic demeanor his clients sought. Michael Kathrens classic volume, originally published in 2002, remains the only work on this great American architect. The revised edition of American Splendor, featuring three additional chapters and 50 new color photographs, is due in stores in December 2011.

American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer

Arts & Photography

Marchand, Richard C.

Weller, Eleanor

Architecture

Acanthus Pr Llc

GREAT HOUSES OF NEW YORK, 1880-1930 presents the stories of 43 most elegant houses built in New York. With over 300 archival photographs and floor plans and a decade of research, Michael Kathrens profiles New York houses known only for their magisterial presence on the city s most elegant boulevards, some of which still exist today. IN the book the lavish rooms are brought to life again polished black and white columns reflect in the marble floor of a grand entryway, Dutch master paintings line damask walls in the second floor reception room, a crystal chandelier softly lights a dining rooms whose boiserie glows with paintings by Boucher evoking the elegant private life that has become a trademark of the wealthy New Yorker.

Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930 (Urban Domestic Architecture)

Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938) was one of the most influential residential architects in the country house era that lasted from the late 19th century to 1930. His restrained limestone palaces and townhouses for the super rich defined a new elegance in American cities and seaside resorts. A publicity-shy Philadelphian without social connections and only 10th grade education, Trumbauer opened his own practice, at the age of 21. Within just a few years he was on his way to becoming a leading practitioner of residential design on the grandest scale. No American builder in the first three decades of the 20th century could equal Trumbauer s output in the sheer number and splendor of his commissions. His large mansions were typically designed in English or French taste, and whether they were in the Whitemarsh Valley outside Philadelphia or new the ocean in Newport, Rhode Island, Trumbauer s houses had the imposing aristocratic demeanor his clients sought. Michael Kathrens classic volume, originally published in 2002, remains the only work on this great American architect. The revised edition of American Splendor features three additional chapters and 50 new color photographs.

• Explores the development of Kansas City's affluent residential districts beginning with Quality Hill in the 1850s, through the boom years of the 1920s, including the Sunset Hill and Mission Hills districts• 40 houses are profiled in detail, including floor plans, architectural drawings, and photographs of interior architectural elements• Newly commissioned photographs by noted local photographer Bruce Mathews• Appendices include architects' biographies and a selected catalog of 60 additional houses represented by one exterior view and a caption listing original owner, architect, and date completedThis long overdue study documents the rich heritage of Kansas City residential architecture, signifying the importance of this booming midwestern metropolis between 1880 and 1930. The forty houses within this book were erected by the city's leading plutocrats, such as newspaper publisher William Rockhill Nelson, whose fortune helped establish the Nelson-Atkins Museum; minerals magnate August R. Meyer; lumber baron Robert A. Long; oilman Ernest C. Winters; and Walter E. Bixby of Kansas City Life Insurance. Among the noted architects profiled are Edward W. Tanner, Henry F. Hoit, Louis S. Curtiss, the firm of George Brown Post in collaboration with Kansas City based architect Roger Gilman (Dean of RISD 1919–1929), and Mary Rockwell Hook, one of the first women to study at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Most of these houses were designed in the European and American revival styles prevalent during this period, yet each is distinguished by a midwestern sensibility.

Kansas City Houses: 1885-1938

History & Criticism

Bauer And Dean Publishers

A compelling account of the luxury and splendor of Newport’s nineteenth-century summer “cottages.” 
In his latest contribution to America’s architectural record, Michael C. Kathrens gives house enthusiasts a superbly visual and informative book on Newport’s early resort architecture. 
The nineteenth century was an incredibly vibrant period in Newport, Rhode Island’s, rich architectural history. Opulent private houses―or summer “cottages” as they were known―populated the seaside resort half a century before the rise of the European Revival behemoths of the late 1880s and 1890s. The luxury and splendor of many of these earlier homes often rivaled the sumptuousness of the later “Gilded Age” mansions. 
In the decades since 1835, when the first private house was built exclusively for seasonal use, scores of magnificent homes were commissioned by a burgeoning summer colony whose members were among America’s wealthiest and most prominent families, including the Schermerhorns, Lorillards, Goelets, and Joneses. They built their summer residences in neighborhoods known today as Kay-Catherine-Old Beach Road, Bellevue Avenue, Ochre Point, and Ocean Drive, commissioning local talents such as George Champlin Mason Sr., Seth C. Bradford, and Dudley Newton as well as nationally renowned architects such as Richard Morris Hunt, McKim, Mead & White, and Peabody & Stearns. These exceptional houses showcased new architectural expressions and displayed the mastery of those who designed them. 
The scope of this volume―the prequel to Newport Villas: The Revival Styles, 1885–1935, Kathrens’s first book on Newport residential architecture―extends beyond 1890, providing ownership histories of each of the thirty-six houses profiled, including Cannon Hill, Chateau-sur-Mer, Elm Court, Beaulieu, Land’s End, the original Breakers, Ochre Point, and Chastellux as well as visual documentation of later renovations. Rare late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century interior images reflect a shift in fashion from the exuberant Victorian to a cleaner, more classical style that led to the Edwardian elegance of many of the later renovations by architects such as Horace Trumbauer, Ogden Codman Jr., and Francis L. V. Hoppin. 
Stunning archival and newly commissioned photography, architectural renderings, and floor plans aid in fully conveying the remarkable legacy of Newport’s majestic cottages built before 1890, presented comprehensively for the first time.

Newport Cottages 1835-1890: The Summer Villas Before the Vanderbilt Era

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Newport Villas: The Revival Styles 1885-1935

American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer

Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930 (Urban Domestic Architecture)

American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer

Kansas City Houses: 1885-1938

Newport Cottages 1835-1890: The Summer Villas Before the Vanderbilt Era