Perhaps the most important architect ever to have worked in America, Peter Harrison's renown suffers from the destruction of most of his papers when he died in 1775. He was born in Yorkshire, England in 1716 and trained to be an architect as a teenager. He also became a ship captain, and soon sailed to ports in America, where he began designing some of the most iconic buildings of the continent. In a clandestine operation, he procured the plans for the French Canadian fortress of Louisbourg, enabling Massachusetts Governor William Shirley to capture it in 1745. This setback forced the French to halt their operation to capture all of British America and to give up British territory they had captured in India. As a result, he was rewarded with commissions to design important buildings in Britain and in nearly all British colonies around the world, and he became the first person ever to have designed buildings on six continents. He designed mostly in a neo-Palladian style, and invented a way of building wooden structures so as to look like carved stone--"wooden rustication." He also designed some of America's most valuable furniture, including inventing the coveted "block-front," and introducing the bombe motif. In America, he lived in Newport, Rhode Island, and in New Haven, Connecticut, where he died at the beginning of the War of Independence.

The Buildings of Peter Harrison: Cataloguing the Work of the First Global Architect, 1716-1775

Millar, John Fitzhugh

Biographies & Memoirs

McFarland

Elizabethan Country Dances

Country Dancing is easy to learn, and this book shows how. This book contains a brief history of Country Dncing, instruction in the basic figures, and music and directions for 86 dances with about 100 tunes - including sixteen 400-year-old square dances and eighteen Contras - with son-woods to accompany the tunes plus a bibliography and discography. The dances are graded from easy to diffibult. The tunes, although anonymous, are some of the fenest from the Golden Age of English music.

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Thirteen Colonies Pr

Complete Life of Christ

Religion & Spirituality

This book contains extensive information on North American ships built through the year 1790.. This book will appeal to readers who have interest in early American history or sailing, and is particularly useful to model-builders and to Marine Artist.The paper and sewn binding have been specially chosen for their long-life qualities, making this book additionally valuable.

Early American Ships

Business & Money

Country Dancing is easy to learn, and this book shows how.

A Complete Life of Christ

Classical Architecture in Renaissance Europe: 1419-1585

History & Criticism

Classical Architecture in Renaissance Europe 1419-1585

Material-culture historian JOHN FITZHUGH MILLAR, who was educated at Harvard, the College of William &amp; Mary, and in England, has several books to his credit on architectural history, colonial ships, and historic dance. He is well known for having been responsible for building full-sized operational copies of two Revolutionary War ships for the Bicentennial, the 24-gun frigate Rose now at San Diego, and the 12-gun sloop Providence (first ship of the American Navy, first to land the Marines, and first command of John Paul Jones). He runs the historic bed &amp; breakfast “Newport House” (a reproduction of a 1756 house designed by Harrison at Newport that was destroyed in 1956) in Williamsburg, Virginia – see www.newporthousebb.com. His other book on Harrison is The Buildings of Peter Harrison: Cataloguing the Work of the First Global Architect, 1716-1775, McFarland &amp; Co, 2014.

Peter Harrison 1716-1775 Drawings

Architecture

Thirteen Colonies Press

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