Robert Mills : America's first architect /

By:

Bryan, John M, 1942-

Contributor(s):

Mills, Robert, 1781-1855

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Princeton Architectural Press, 2001Edition: First editionDescription: xiii, 330 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

1568982968 :

Subject(s): Genre/Form:

LOC classification:

NA737.M5 B78 2001

Contents:

Prologue : youth in Charleston, 1781-1800 -- ch. 1. Early mentors, James Hoban and Thomas Jefferson, Washington D.C., 1800-1803 -- ch. 2. Training with Benjamin Henry Latrobe, 1803-1807 -- ch. 3. The young professional, Philadelphia, 1808-1812 -- ch. 4. Diversification and maturity, Richmond, Philadelphia, Baltimore, 1810-1820 -- ch. 5. Internal improvements, South Carolina, 1820-1829 -- ch. 6. National practice, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere, 1830-1835 -- ch. 7. "Architect of public buildings", Washington, D.C., 1836-1842, and subsequent practice.

Summary: The first architect trained in America, Robert Mills, (1781-1855) is best known as the designer of many iconic buildings in our nation's capital : the Washington Monument, the Department of Treasury Headquarters, the Patent Office Building (now National Portrait Gallery), and the Post Office Headquarters. Perhaps most interesting is the range of buildings and machines that Mills designed from monuments and local courthouses, to prisons and churches, bridges and canals, to rotary piston engines and fireproof masonry faults - all during a revolutionary era of building technology in America.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	NA737.M5 B78 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001142

The first definitive monograph on this pivotal architect, beautifully illustrated with watercolors and renderings.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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