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Architects to the nation : the rise and decline of the Supervising Architect's Office /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Antoinette J. (Antoinette Josephine)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.
Subjects:
United States. > Department of the Treasury. > Office of Supervising Architect.
Public buildings > United States > Designs and plans.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / William Seale
  • Prelude
  • No blueprint for the new nation, 1789-1851
  • The Bureau of Construction and the Corps of Engineers, 1852-1865
  • Alfred B. Mullett, 1866-1874
  • The Supervising Architect's Office in the Gilded Age, 1875-1894
  • The Tarsney Act, its passage and postponement in implementation, 1893-1896
  • Proponents of "Academic Classicism," 1895-1925
  • The public buildings program in eras of affluence and depression, 1926-1939
  • Epilogue: 1940.