Houses of the Berkshires, 1870-1930 (The Architecture of Leisure)
New York: Acanthus Press, 2006. Hardcover. Sage cloth, gilt letters on spine, dark green & illus. dust jacket, 310 pp., 300+ BW illus. VG (First page carries signature of former owner; edge of book block has faint hint of some foxing; otherwise clean.). Item #151616
ISBN: 9780926494350
"Surveys 35 of the most renowed residences and estates designed by nationally known firms including McKim, Mead & White, Carrere & Hastings, and Frederick Law Olmsted. Their clients included lawyer and ambassador Joseph Choate, novelist Edith Wharton, and inventor George Westinghouse. ... [This book] provides an unmatched chronicle of a distinctive social and literary colony and now-vanished way of life." (dj).
OCLC: 62281966
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