American Architecture 1600-1860 Fall 2008 Prof. Longstreth
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FIRST PERIOD ARCHITECTURE IN NEW ENGLAND
* Boardman house, Saugus, Mass., ca. 1687; lean-to add. before 1696 * Fairbanks house, Dedham, Mass., ca. 1637; lean-to add. before 1668, adds. 18c * Capen house, Topsfield, Mass., 1683 Browne house, Watertown, Mass., between 1694-1701 Revere house, Boston, ca. 1680; reconstructed early 20c * Whipple house, Ipswich, Mass., ca. 1665; adds. before 1683 Old Feather Store, Boston, 1680; demolished Corwin house, Salem, ca. 1675 Turner house, Salem, ca. 1668; adds. 17c Browne house, Watertown, Mass., between 1694-1701; adds. 18c Stanley house, Farmington, Conn., late 17/early 18cs Coffin house, Newbury, Mass., ca. 1654 Swett-Isley house, Newbury, ca. 1670 Gedney house, Salem, ca. 1665
Arnold house, Lincoln, R.I., ca. 1687 Whitfield house, Guilford, 1639 * First Meeting House, West Springfield, Mass., 1702; destroyed Second (Old Ship) Meeting House, Hingham, Mass., 1681; later adds./alts. * Friends Meeting House, Newport, 1699, 1729, 1807 Meeting House, Cumberland, R.I., ca. 1740; destroyed
1 FIREST PERIOD ARCHITECTURE IN THE CHESAPEAKE REGION
St. John's Manor, St. Mary's City, Md., 1638; alts./adds. prob. 1662; destroyed
Cedar Park, Ann Arundel County, Md., 1702; destroyed
Middle Plantation, Ann Arundel County, first buildings late 17c.; destroyed
King's Mill plantation, James County, Va., first buildings begun ca. 1625; destroyed
* Bacon's Castle, Surry County, Va., 1665; later adds.
* Thoroughgood house, Virginia Beach, Va., ca. 1700
Lyndhaven, Virginia Beach, ca. 1725-1730
* St. Luke's Church, Isle of Wight County, Va., between ca. 1680-1720
DUTCH COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY
Nichols Vechte (Old Stone) house, Brooklyn, 1699; reconst. 1934
* Van Alen house, nr. Kinderhook, N.Y., 1737
Decker house, Ulster Co., N.Y., ca. 1720s, before 1742, ca. 1780s, 1787
Jensen house, Ulster Co., late 18c
* Jonathan Hasbrouck house, Newburgh, N.Y., 1724; adds. 1750-1753, 1770
* Jean Hasbrouck house, New Paltz, N.Y., 1692; adds. by 1712
* David Ackerman (Zabriskie) house, River Edge, N.J., ca. 1680; adds. ca. 1710-1720, after 1745
Holmes house, Holmdel, N.J., 1754
Dyckman house, New York, 1783
* Van Cortlandt Manor, Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y., 17c; adds. early 18c, mid-19c
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FRENCH COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY
St Louis Church (later Cathedral, New Orleans, Adrien de Pauger, 1724, burned; rebuilt 1789-1794, Gilberto Guillemand; adds. 1850, J.N.B. de Pouilly
Barracks, New Orleans, Ingace Francois Broulin, 1734-1739; destroyed
* (Second) Ursaline Convent, New Orleans, Ignace Francois Broulin, 1743-1754
* Cabildo, New Orleans, Gilberto Guillemand, 1795-1799; roof added 1847
Quinores house, New Orleans, 1795; altered
Bosque house, New Orleans, 1795; altered
* Nicholas LaCour house, Pointe Coupee Parish, ca. 1735; moved to Iberia Parish
Badin-Roque house, nr. Natchitoches, La., ca. 1820s
Venus house, Opelousas, La., ca. 1780
* Ribeau house, Ste. Genevieve, Mo., ca. 1808
* Don Manuel Lanzos house (Madam John's Legacy), Robert Jones, builder., after 1788
* Home Place plantation, St. Charles Parish, La., ca. 1801
* Parlange plantation, near New Roads, La., ca. 1795-1810
Oakland plantation, near Natchitoches, La., 1820-1821, outbuildings ca. 1820-1850
3 SPANISH COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE SOUTHWEST
Ecclesiastical Architecture
* Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, near San Antonio, Texas 1720-1731
* Mission San Xavier del Bac, near Tucson, Ariz., 1784-1797
* Mission San Estevan de Acoma, Acoma Pueblo, N.M., ca. 1629-ca. 1642
* San Jose de Garcia Church, Las Trampas, N.M., between 1760-1776
Mission San Francisco de Asis, Rancho de Taos, N.M., ca. 1780
* Mission San Jose de la Laguna, Laguna Pueblo, N.M., ca. 1801
* Mission San Antonio de Padua, Jolon, Cal., 1810-1813; reconst. 1948-1949
Mission San Luis Rey de Francia, near Oceanside, Cal., 1811-1815
* Mission San Carlos Borromeo, Carmel, Cal., 1793-1797
* Mission Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Cal., 1815-1820
Civil Architecture
Plan for Villa de San Fernando de Bejar (San Antonio), Tex., ca. 1730
Chimayo, N.M., founded 1730
Governor's Palace, San Antonio, completed 1749
* Severino Martinez house, near Taos, N.M., between 1804-1824
Jesus Trevino house, San Ygnacio, Tex., 1851-1871; destroyed
San Bartolo Ranch, near Zapata, Tex., 1867-1876; destroyed
Larkin house, Monterey, Cal., 1835
* Rancho Petaluma, near Petaluma, Cal., begun 1836; partly destroyed ?
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EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY ARCHITECTURE IN THE ENGLISH COLONIES
Houses in New England
Hunter house, Newport, R.I., ca. 1748
Purcell house, Portsmouth, N.H., 1758-1759
* Vernon house, Newport, early 18c; adds. ca. 1759
* Vassal house, Cambridge, Mass., 1759
Pepperell house, Kittery Point, Maine, 1760
Buloid house, Newport, ca. 1755
* Wentworth-Gardner house, Portsmouth, 1760
Moffatt-Ladd house, Portsmouth, 1763
Pratt house, Spencertown, N.Y., 1777
Coffin house, Newburyport, Mass., as remodeled, 2nd quarter 18c
Houses in the Mid-Atlantic Region
* Plan of Philadelphia, 1682, Thomas Holme, surveyor
Slate Roof House, Philadelphia, 1687-1699; destroyed
Neave house, Philadelphia, between 1758 and 1765
Abercrombie house, Philadelphia, after 1758
* Powel house, Philadelphia, 1765; 18c adds.
Reynolds-Morris house, Philadelphia, 1786-1787
Shippen-Wistar house, Philadelphia, 1798
5 Hope Lodge, Montgomery County, Pa., 1743-1748
* Cliveden, William Peters, designer, Jacob Knor, builderGermantown (Philadelphia), 1763- 1767
* Mt. Pleasant, Philadelphia, begun 1761
Woodford, Philadelphia, ca. 1735, 1756, second story added 1772
Laurel Hill, Philadelphia, ca. 1748-1760, ca. 1800
Pastorius house, Germantown (Phila.), 1748
Benjamin Perry house, New Hope, Pa., 1784
* Thompson-Neely house, Bucks County, Pa., 1702, 1757, 1788
Boone house, Berks County, Pa., mid 18c, 1779
Hans Herr house, Lancaster County, Pa., 1719
Bartolet house, Berks County, 1740
Zeller house, Lebanon County, Pa., 1745
* Fort Egypt, Page County, Va., late 18c
Houses in the Chesapeake Region
Rochester house, Westmorland County, Va., ca. 1766
* Perkinson's, Chesterfield County, Va., ca. 1750, early 19c
Resurrection Manor, St. Mary's County, Md., mid-18c
Wickersham, Talbot County, Md., 1750
Sandgates, Sandgates, Md., mid-18c
Bellevue, Prince George's County, Md.,
* Gunston Hall, Fairfax County, Va., 1755-1758, William Buckland, designer/builder
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Governor's Palace, Williamsburg, 1706-1720; reconstructed 1928-1931
Rosewell, Gloucester County, Va., ca. 1725-1744; now a ruin
Shirley, Charles City County, Va., completed 1769-1770; porches probably early 19c
* Stratford Hall, Westmorland County, Va., 1725-1730
* Westover, Charles City County, Va., mid-18c
Carter's Grove, James City County, Virginia, ca. 1750-1755; altered
Wilton, Richmond, Va., 1750-1753; moved and restored 1933-1935
* Mt. Airy, Richmond County, Va., 1758-1762; interiors later
Menokin, Richmond County, Va., 1768-1773; now a ruin
Nelson house, Yorktown, Va., ca. 1729
* Hammond house, Annapolis, Md., 1771-1779, William Buckland, designer/builder
Chase-Lloyd house, Annapolis, 1769-1774
John Ridout house, Annapolis, 1764-1765
Scott house, Annapolis, 1762-1763
Houses in Charleston
Robert Brewton house, Charleston, S.C., ca. 1720
Burroughs house, Charleston, 1772-1774
* Lagare house, Charleston, ca. 1759
Stewart house, Charleston, 1772
Miles Brewton house, Charleston, 1765-1769
Pickney house, Charleston, 1746-1747; burned 1864
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Middleton Place, nr. Charleston, between 1704-1741
* Drayton Hall, nr. Charleston, 1738-1742
Houses of Worship
First Church, Boston, third building 1713; later adds., destroyed
* Christ Church, Boston, 1722-1723, William Price, designer
* Trinity Church, Newport, R.I., 1725-1726, Richard Munday; adds. 1762
* Christ Church, Philadelphia, 1727-1744, tower completed 1754, John Kearsley, designer
St. Michael's Church, Charleston, 1751-1761
St. Philip's Church, Charleston, 1753, burned
* First Baptist Church, Providence, 1775
Presbyterian Church, Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), 1782
Old Swede's Church, Swedesboro, N.J., 1784-1786
First Church, Weathersfield, Conn., 1762-1764
* First Church, Farmington, Conn., 1771
Friends Meeting House, Hancock Bridge, N.J., 1756, 1784
Friends Meeting House, Salem, N.J., 1772
Mennonite Meeting House, Landisville, Pa., 1742
Mennonite Meeting House, Jacob Knor, builder, Germantown (Phila.), 1770
Mauck's Meeting House, Page Co. Va., ca. 1800
Dutch Reformed Church, Bergen, N.J., 1680; destroyed
Touro Synagogue, Newport, R.I., dedicated 1763, Peter Harrison, designer
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Merchant's Hope Church, Prince George County, Va., ca. 1725
Christ Church, Lancaster County, Va., ca. 1730
* Pohick Church, Fairfax County, Va., completed 1772
Drayer's Presbyterian Church, Odessa, Del., 1773
St. James Church, near Goose Creek, S.C., 1711
St. James Church, Santee, nr. McClellandsville, S.C., 1768
Government and Institutional Buildings
Second Town House, Boston, 1712
* Colony House, Newport, R.I., 1739-1741, Richard Munday, builder
* State House (Independence Hall), Philadelphia, 1732-1748, tower 1753, Andrew Hamilton, designer
Court House, New Castle, Del., 1732
Court House, Edenton, N.C., 1767
Court House, Wilmington, Del., 1798
Court House, Mount Holly, N.J., 1796
Capitol (later Court House), Corydon, Ind., 1816
Court House, Independence, Mo., 1849; destroyed
City Hall and High Street Market, Philadelphia, 1707-1710; destroyed
South Second Street Market, Philadelphia, 1745; reconstructed 1960s
Faneuil Hall, Boston, 1740-1742; adds. 1805-1806, Charles Bulfinch, architect
* Brick Market, Newport, 1761-1762, Peter Harrison, designer; altered
9 Exchange, Charleston, 1767-1771, William Rigby Naylor, designer
Alms House, Philadelphia, 1767; destroyed
Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia, east wing begun 1755
Walnut Street Prison, Philadelphia, 1773-1776, Robert Smith, designer/builder; destroyed
Nassau Hall, College of New Jersey (Princeton University), Princeton, 1754-1756, Robert Smith, designer/builder; extensive alts.
College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, 1695-1702
Massachusetts Hall, 1718-1720 and Harvard Hall, 1764-1766, Harvard College, Cambridge, Mass.
Connecticut Hall, Yale College, New Haven, Conn., 1750-1752
Dartmouth Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., 1790; reconst.
* Redwood Library, Newport, 1748-1750, Peter Harrison, designer; later adds.
ARCHITECTURE OF THE EARLY REPUBLIC
Sansom Row, Philadelphia, ca. 1801-1803, Thomas Charstairs; altered
Seven Buildings, Washington, D.C., 1794-1796; most demolished
Neall house, Easton, Md., ca. 1789
Morgan Row, Harrisonburg, Ky., 1807
* Tontine Crescent, Boston, 1793-1794, Charles Bulfinch, architect; demolished
* State House, Boston, 1795-1797, Bulfinch; later adds.
* State House, Richmond, Va., 1785-1789, Thomas Jefferson, designer; altered
* University of Virginia, Charlottesville, 1817-1826, Jefferson
* Basilica of the Assumption, Baltimore, 1808-1821, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, architect; later
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* Plan for Washington, D.C., 1791, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, surveyor
* U.S. Capitol, Washington, original design 1792, William Thornton; north wing 1793-1800; south wing 1803-1807, Latrobe; reconst. 1814-1817, Latrobe; center section completed 1827, Bulfinch; numerous later adds./alts.
President's House, Washington, original design 1792, James Hoban; alts. designed 1807, Latrobe; south portico 1824, north 1829 by Hoban more or less following Latrobe's design; numerous later adds./alts.
GREEK REVIVAL ARCHITECTURE
Commercial Buildings
* Second Bank of the United States, Philadelphia, 1818-1824, William Strickland
Merchants' Exchange, Philadelphia, 1832-1834, Strickland; ints. destroyed
Merchants' Exchange, Boston, 1842, Isaiah Rogers; destroyed
Washington Buildings, Providence, R.I., 1843-1845, James Bucklin; destroyed
Merchants' Exchange, New York, third building 1836-1842, Rogers; altered
* Faneuil Hall (Quincy) Market, Boston, 1823-1826, Alexander Parris; altered
Arcade, Providence, 1827-1828, Russell Warren and James Bucklin
Exchange Coffee House, Boston, 1798, Asher Benjamin; burned
* Tremont House, Boston, 1828-1829, Rogers; demolished
Astor House, New York, 1834-1836, Rogers; demolished
Exchange Hotel, Richmond, 1839-181, Rogers; demolished
St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, 1835-1838, James Gallier and James Dakin; destroyed
11 Rockaway Marine Pavilion, Long Island, 1833, James Dakin; destroyed
Government and Institutional Buildings
* Treasury Building, Washington, 1836-1842, Robert Mills; later adds.
Patent Office Building, Washington, designed 1834, William Elliott and Town & Davis; executed with modifications, 1836-1840, Robert Mills
State House, Springfield, Ill., 1837-1841, John Rague; rebuilt
State House, Iowa City, Iowa, 1840-1842, John Rague
State House, Montpelier, Vt., 1831-1836, Ammi Young; rebuilt 1857-1859
Court House, St. Louis, Mo., begun 1839, Henry Singleton
Court House, Louisville, Ky., 1835-1842, Gideon Shryock
Court House, Petersburg, Va., 1838-1840, Calvin Pollard
Court House, Powhattan, Va., 1849, Town & Davis
Court House, Knoxville, Ill., 1840
Court House, Ovid, N.Y., 1845, 1855, 1860
Court House, Paoli, Ind., 1847-1850
Hiberian Hall, Charleston, 1840, Thomas Ustick Walter
Lyceum, Alexandria, Va., 1840
Athenaeum, Nantucket, Mass., 1847
Sailor's Snug Harbor, Richmond (New York), 1831-1839, Martin Thompson
State Hospital, Utica, N.Y., 1837-1843
Houses of Worship
Congregational Church, Slatersville, R.I., 1838
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Congregational church, Madison, Conn., 1838
Cathedral of St. Peter in Chains, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1840-1845, Howard Daniels
St. Paul's Church, Richmond, Va., 1844-1845
Third Presbyterian Church, Charleston, 1848-1850, E. C. Jones
Kahel Kadosti Synagogue, Charleston, 1839-1841
Lloyd Street Synagogue, Baltimore, 1845
Houses
* Andalusia, Bucks County, Pa., 1797-1798; adds. 1806-1808, Latrobe; extensive adds./alts. 1835-1836, T. U. Walter
* Russell House, Middletown, Conn., 1828-1830, Town & Davis
Rose Hill, nr. Geneva, N.Y., 1839
Evergreen plantation, near Edgard, La., ca. 1840
* Oak Alley plantation, near Vacherie, La., 1830-1839
ROMANTIC ECLECTICISM IN ARCHITECTURE
Houses
Sedgley, Philadelphia, 1799, B.H. Latrobe; destroyed
Herick house, Tarrytown, N.Y., 1855-1859, Alexander Jackson Davis; destroyed
Park house, Rye, N.Y., 1852-1854, Davis
* Knoll, Paulding house, Tarrytown, 1838-1842, Davis remodeled by Davis and renamed Lyndhurst, 1865
Kingscote, Jones house, Newport, 1839-1841, Richard Upjohn; later adds.
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Staunton Hall, near Brookneal, Va., 1848, John Johnson
* Delamater house, Rhinebeck, N.Y., 1843-1844, Davis
* Rotch house, New Bedford, Mass., 1845-1848, Davis
Castlewood, Llewelyn Park, W. Orange, N.J., 1857, Davis
Munn house, Utica, N.Y., 1854-1855, Davis
Litchfield house, Brooklyn, 1857, Davis
* King house, Newport, 1845-1847, Upjohn
Prospect, Potter house, Princeton, 1851-1852, John Notman
Ellerslie, Trenton, N.J., ca. 1848-1850, Notman
Fountain Elms, Munson house, Utica, N.Y., 1850, William J. Wollett, Jr.
Longwood, Nutt house, Natchez, Miss., 1859-1861, Samuel Sloan
Morse house, Portland, Me., 1859-1863, Henry Austin
Houses of Worship
* Trinity Church, New York, 1839-1846, Upjohn
Christ Church, Binghamton, N.Y., 1853, Upjohn
* St. Mary's Church, Burlington, N.J., 1846-1848, Upjohn
St. Thomas' Church, Amenia Union, N.Y., 1849-1851, Upjohn
* St. John's Church, Copake Falls, N.Y., 1851-1852, Upjohn
Church of the Cross, Bluffton, S.C., 1854
Chapel, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., 1845-1855, Upjohn
Church of the Pilgrims, New York, 1844-1846, Upjohn
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Harvard College Chapel, 1846, Upjohn, project
St. Paul's Church, Baltimore, 1852-1856, Upjohn
Isaac M. Wise Temple, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1864-1866, James K. Wilson
Institutional Buildings
Mt. Auburn Cemetery gates, Cambridge, Mass., 1831, 1843, J. Bigelow
Grove Street Cemetery gates, New Haven, 1845-1848, Henry Austin
Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, 1844, Thomas S. Stewart
Odd Fellows Hall, Philadelphia, 1846-1847; demolished
Halls of Justice and House of Detention (The Tombs), New York, 1835-1838, Haviland; demolished
* Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, 1823-1836, Haviland
* Athenaeum of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, 1845-1847, Notman
Academy of Music, Philadelphia, 1855, Napoleon Le Brun and Gustave Runge
Crosby's Opera House, Chicago, 1865; destroyed
Pike's Opera House, Cincinnati, 1859; destroyed
Commercial Buildings
Farmers and Mechanics bank, Philadelphia, 1855
State Bank of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, 1856, att. E. Townsend Mix
Philadelphia Saving Fund Society, Philadelphia, 1868, Sloan & Hutton; later adds.
Trinity Building, New York, 1852, Upjohn; destroyed
New York Times Building, New York, 1857-1858; destroyed
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Montgomery Block, San Francisco, 1851, Gordon Cummings; demolished
* A.T. Stewart Store, New York, 1845-1846; extensive alts. 1850, Joseph French and John Snook; later alts.
Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York, 1856; destroyed
St. Nicholas Hotel, New York, completed 1853; destroyed
Tremont House, Chicago, 1850; burned 1871
Willard Hotel, Washington, ca. 1850; demolished
Patee House, St. Joseph, Mo., 1856-1858, L.S. Stigers; interiors destroyed
Schools
Grammar School, Quincy, Mass., 1847-1848, destroyed
Northeast Grammar School, Philadelphia, 1852, Samuel Sloan; destroyed
Female Grammar School, Pottsville, Pa., 1863, poss. by Sloan
High School, St. Louis, Mo., 1856, William Rumbold; destroyed
Eastern Female High School, Baltimore, 1869, R.S. Andrews
Railroad Stations
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Station, Frederick, Md., 1831; destroyed
Kneeland Street Station, Boston, 1847, Gridley Bryant; demolished
Central Railroad of Georgia Station, Savannah, Ga., ca. 1855, Augustus Schwab; altered
Union Station, New Haven, 1848-1849, Austin; destroyed
Union Station, Providence, 1847-1848, Thomas Tefft; demolished
Calvert Station, Baltimore, 1848, Niernsee & Neilson; destroyed
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NEW MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES
St. Mary's Church, Chicago, 1833, Augustine Taylor; demolished
* Laing Stores, New York, 1849, James Bogardus (inventor of system); lost
(Second) A.T. Stewart Store, New York, 1859-1860, John Kellum; burned
* U.S. Capitol dome, Washington, D.C., 1856-1864, T.U. Walter; Montgomery Meigs and Augustus Schoenborn, engineers
Court House dome, St. Louis, 1859-1862, William Rumbold
Fairmount Waterworks, Philadelphia, 1812 et seq., Frederick Graff
Louisville Water Company pumping house, Louisville, 1858-1860, Theodore Snowden; later adds.
THE ARCHITECTURE OF TRANSPORTATION AND INDUSTRY
Carrollton Viaduct, Baltimore County, Md., 1829, James Lloyd
Thomas Viaduct, Relay, Md., 183-1835, B.H. Latrobe II
Starrucca Viaduct, near Susquehanna, Pa., 1848, John Kirkwood
Ohio River Bridge, Wheeling, W.Va., 1849; rebuilt 1854, 1859, et seq., Charles Ellet
Spring Garden Street Bridge, Philadelphia, 1841-1842, Ellet; destroyed
Delaware River Aqueduct, Delaware & Hudson Canal, Lackawaxen, Pa., 1847-1849, John Roebling
Niagara Bridge, Niagara Falls, N.Y., 1852-1855, Roebling; destroyed
Ohio River Bridge, Cincinnati, 1856-1857, Roebling
East River (Brooklyn) Bridge, New York, 1867-1883, Roebling
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