Peter Harrison, 1716-1775, First Professional Architect in America, Etc. (Reprinted from Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society.).
Title | Peter Harrison, 1716-1775, First Professional Architect in America, Etc. (Reprinted from Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society.). PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Henry HART |
Publisher | |
Pages | 10 |
Release | 1916 |
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Peter Harrison, 1716-1775
Title | Peter Harrison, 1716-1775 PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Henry Hart |
Publisher | |
Pages | 20 |
Release | 1916 |
Genre | Architects |
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The Buildings of Peter Harrison
Title | The Buildings of Peter Harrison PDF eBook |
Author | John Fitzhugh Millar |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 245 |
Release | 2014-10-20 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0786479620 |
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 Architect
Title | The Architect PDF eBook |
Author | Arthur Holland Forbes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 810 |
Release | 1928 |
Genre | Architecture |
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Patriot-improvers: 1743-1768
Title | Patriot-improvers: 1743-1768 PDF eBook |
Author | Whitfield J. Bell (Jr.) |
Publisher | American Philosophical Society |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780871692269 |
When Benjamin Franklin adopted John Bartram's 1739 idea of bringing together the "virtuosi" of the colonies to promote inquiries into "natural secrets, arts and syances," the result was, in 1743, the founding of the American Philosophical Society. Bell records the early years of the Society through sketches of its first members, those elected between 1743 and 1769. This volume includes biographies of some of the Society's best known members such as Franklin, David Rittenhouse, John Bartram, Benjamin Rush, John Dickinson, Thomas Hopkinson and many lesser known merchants, artisans, farmers, physicians, lawyers and clergymen with familiar surnames such as Biddle, Colden, and Morris. Illustrations.
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals
Title | Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals PDF eBook |
Author | Avery Library |
Publisher | |
Pages | 798 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Architecture |
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1977 to present. Citations to articles from more than 1,000 periodicals in all Western languages, including all major architectural journals published in the U.S. and Great Britain, as well as most South American, European and Japanese architecture-related periodicals.
Writings on American History
Title | Writings on American History PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 1918 |
Genre | America |
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