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Inventing the new American house : Howard Van Doren Shaw, architect / Stuart Cohen.

By: Material type: TextDescription: 248 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portraits ; 30 cmISBN:
  • 9781580934206
  • 1580933718
Contained works: Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.92 23 COH
Contents:
Concerning Howard Shaw and his architecture -- Shaw-Atkinson House, Dorencote, Chicago, Illinois, 1894 -- Howard Van Doren Shaw House, Ragdale, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1897 -- John Burroughs Drake House, Chicago, Illinois, 1903 -- Arthur John Mason House, Chicago, Illinois, 1904 -- Joseph Medill Patterson House, Westwood Farm, Libertyville, Illinois, 1905 -- Edward Larned Ryerson Sr. House, Havenwood I, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1906 -- Augustus Albert Carpenter House, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1906 -- Edward Foster Swift House, Villa Hortensia, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 1906 -- Hubbard Carpenter House, Rehoboth, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 1906 -- Adolphus Clay Bartlett House, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 1907 -- Walter Stanton Brewster House, Covin Tree, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1907 -- Hugh Johnston McBirney House, House of the Four Winds, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1908 -- Charles Fernald House, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1908 -- Finley Barrell House, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1909 -- Walter Donald Douglas House, Walden, Deephaven, Minnesota, 1909 -- E. Norman Scott House, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1910 -- Charles Henry Hermann House, Glencoe, Illinois, 1911 -- Prentiss Loomis Coonley House, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1911 -- Edward Larned Ryerson Sr. House, Havenwood II, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1912 -- Arthur Hudson Marks House, Elmcourt, Akron, Ohio, 1912 -- Gustavus Franklin Swift Jr. House, Chicago, Illinois, 1913 -- Clayton Mark House, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1914 -- George Pick House, Highland Park, Illinois, 1915 -- William Vallandigham Kelley House, Stonebridge, Lake Bluff, Illinois, 1916 -- Peabody Estate Service Group, Hinsdale, Illinois, 1921 -- Abraham G. Becker House, Highland Park, Illinois, 1921 -- James Otis Hinkley House, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1923 -- John P. Wilson Jr. House, Chicago, Illinois, 1923 -- Clarence Hopkins King House, St. Louis, Missouri, 1923 -- Robert Patterson Lamont House, West View Farms, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1925 -- Chronological list of Shaw houses -- Concerning Howard Shaw in his home / Frances Wells Shaw.
Summary: Howard Van Doren Shaw designed stately country houses in and around Chicago--from affluent Lake Forest, Illinois, and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Indiana--from 1894 to 1926, a period in American architecture that spanned the Gilded Age, the adoption of Beaux-Arts classicism as the ideal for civic architecture, the invention of the skyscraper, and the beginning of modernism.
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"Including Concerning Howard Shaw in His Home / Frances Wells Shaw 1926"--Title page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-230) and index.

Concerning Howard Shaw and his architecture -- Shaw-Atkinson House, Dorencote, Chicago, Illinois, 1894 -- Howard Van Doren Shaw House, Ragdale, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1897 -- John Burroughs Drake House, Chicago, Illinois, 1903 -- Arthur John Mason House, Chicago, Illinois, 1904 -- Joseph Medill Patterson House, Westwood Farm, Libertyville, Illinois, 1905 -- Edward Larned Ryerson Sr. House, Havenwood I, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1906 -- Augustus Albert Carpenter House, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1906 -- Edward Foster Swift House, Villa Hortensia, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 1906 -- Hubbard Carpenter House, Rehoboth, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 1906 -- Adolphus Clay Bartlett House, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, 1907 -- Walter Stanton Brewster House, Covin Tree, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1907 -- Hugh Johnston McBirney House, House of the Four Winds, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1908 -- Charles Fernald House, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1908 -- Finley Barrell House, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1909 -- Walter Donald Douglas House, Walden, Deephaven, Minnesota, 1909 -- E. Norman Scott House, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1910 -- Charles Henry Hermann House, Glencoe, Illinois, 1911 -- Prentiss Loomis Coonley House, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1911 -- Edward Larned Ryerson Sr. House, Havenwood II, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1912 -- Arthur Hudson Marks House, Elmcourt, Akron, Ohio, 1912 -- Gustavus Franklin Swift Jr. House, Chicago, Illinois, 1913 -- Clayton Mark House, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1914 -- George Pick House, Highland Park, Illinois, 1915 -- William Vallandigham Kelley House, Stonebridge, Lake Bluff, Illinois, 1916 -- Peabody Estate Service Group, Hinsdale, Illinois, 1921 -- Abraham G. Becker House, Highland Park, Illinois, 1921 -- James Otis Hinkley House, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1923 -- John P. Wilson Jr. House, Chicago, Illinois, 1923 -- Clarence Hopkins King House, St. Louis, Missouri, 1923 -- Robert Patterson Lamont House, West View Farms, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1925 -- Chronological list of Shaw houses -- Concerning Howard Shaw in his home / Frances Wells Shaw.

Howard Van Doren Shaw designed stately country houses in and around Chicago--from affluent Lake Forest, Illinois, and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, to Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, and Indiana--from 1894 to 1926, a period in American architecture that spanned the Gilded Age, the adoption of Beaux-Arts classicism as the ideal for civic architecture, the invention of the skyscraper, and the beginning of modernism.

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