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The Gothic revival & American church architecture; an episode in taste, 1840-1856

By:

Stanton, Phoebe B

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Johns Hopkins studies in nineteenth-century architecturePublisher: Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press [1968]Description: xxiv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

726/.5/0973

LOC classification:

NA5210 .S7

Summary: Professor Stanton here explores the influence of the English ecclesiological Gothic revival on American church architecture in the mid0nineteenth century. Largely a product of English taste, this fundamentally conservative movement was to provide a foundation for a new aesthetic in American architecture. Although there was justice in John Stuart Mill's description of medieval enthusiasts as "men who carry their eyes in the back of their heads and can see no other portion of the destined track of humanity but that which it has already traveled," the movement's impact was to be manifested in American ecclesiological architecture well into the twentieth century. " - From the Jacket

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	NA5210 .S7 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001255

Signed "November 1968 new Haven Douglas Richardson" - on lining page

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The Gothic revival & American church architecture; an episode in taste, 1840-1856