<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Washington would be a capital of Egyptian pillars and Roman splendor if this hardware merchant’s grandiose plan had been adopted</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Along the Mississippi the spirit of vanished culture lingers in the ruined columns of the great plantations</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Newport it was not; but to judge by its summertime throngs, its religious fervor, and the exuberance of its architecture, there was nothing to match the likes of the “Cottage City of America.”</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> The revival in the nineteenth century of medieval motifs in architecture extended from villas and furniture to farmhouses and vineries</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> High on a hill above the Hudson River Frederick Edwin Church indulged his passion for building an exotic dream castle</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> An exclusive preserve of New York’s social elite —its rise, its flourishing years, and its slide into genteel decline</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> He could build castles at his whim, but the ancient home of a small band of monks defeated him</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> This puckish, nearly forgotten California architect built his own distinctive style on the simple principle that beauty alone endures</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> “I’ll plan anything a man wants,” he said, “from a cathedral to a chicken coop.” The monumental results transformed American architecture</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> How a brave and gifted woman defied her parents and her background to create the splendid collection that is Shelburne</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> J<span class="typestyle"> ohn Wenrich’s original drawings of Rockefeller Center helped attract tenants in the middle of the Depression. Fifty years later they survive as talismans of a golden moment in American architecture</span> . </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> It was a suburb of orange blossoms and gardens, of gracious homes and quiet, dignified lives—until a regrettable class of people moved in.</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> How a shy millionaire’s peculiar genius transformed his “country place” into an unparalleled showcase of American furnishings</span><br />
A HERITAGE PRESERVED </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> A HERITAGE PRESERVED<br />
The brief mid-nineteenth-century popularity of eight-sided houses has left us a strange and delightful architectural legacy </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> It was built by Roebling, connects two cities, is a landmark of American engineering, and looks just like it but is…</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> A gathering of little-known drawings from Columbia<br />
University’s Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library illuminates two centuries of American building</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> In designing, the University of Virginia, Jefferson sought not only to educate young men for leadership, but to bring aesthetic maturity to the new nation</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">It might seem that building a mausoleum to the great general would be a serenely melancholy task. Not at all. The bitter squabbles that surrounded the memorial set city against country and became a mirror of the forces that were straining turn-of-the-century America.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Some of our finest public buildings were designed by a tormented young English architect whom the world has forgotten.</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> A biographer who knows it well tours Franklin Roosevelt’s home on the Hudson and finds it was not so much the President’s castle as it was his formidable mother’s.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> Every town you pass through has felt the impact of the modern historic-preservation movement. Now a founder of that movement discusses what is real and what is fake in preservation efforts.</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> The pilasters and pediments of an architecture perfectly suited to our eighteenth-century aristocracy flourish in today’s skyline and suburb</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">The medieval look that swept America 150 years ago wasn’t just a matter of nostalgia for pointed archways and crenellated towers; it was also the very model of a modern architectural style.</span></p>
