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Incidental Architect

William Thornton and the Cultural Life of Early Washington, D.C., 1794-1828

Gordon S. Brown

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Código Libristo: 04935614

Editoras Ohio University Press, maio 2009

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While the majority of scholarship on early Washington focuses on its political and physical development, in "Incidental Architect" Gordon S. Brown describes the intellectual and social scene of the late 1700s through the lives of a prominent couple whose cultural aspirations served as both model and mirror for the city's own. When William and Anna Maria Thornton arrived in Washington, D.C., in 1794, the new nation's capital was little more than a raw village. The Edinburgh-educated Thornton and his accomplished wife brought with them the values of the Scottish Enlightenment, an enthusiasm for the arts, and a polished urbanity that was lacking in the little city emerging from the swamps along the Potomac. Thornton's talents were manifold: He is perhaps best known as the original architect of the Capitol building, but he also served as a city commissioner and as director of the Patent Office, where his own experimentation in steam navigation embroiled him in a long-running dispute with inventor Robert Fulton. In spite of their general preoccupation with politics and real estate development, Washington's citizens gradually created a network of cultural institutions - theaters, libraries and booksellers, music venues, churches, schools, and even colleges and intellectual associations - that began to satisfy their aspirations. "Incidental Architect" is a fascinating account of how the city's cultural and social institutions were shaped by its earliest citizens.

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Nome completo Incidental Architect

Autor Gordon S. Brown

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Inglês

Encadernação Livro - Livro de capa dura

Data de emissão 2009

Número de páginas 192

EAN 9780821418628

ISBN 0821418629

Código Libristo 04935614

Editoras Ohio University Press

Peso 544

Dimensões 178 x 254 x 20

Categorias

Place qualifiers > The Americas > North America (USA & Canada) > United States of America, USA > US South > US South: South Atlantic States > District of Columbia (Washington D.C.)

Time period qualifiers > c 1500 onwards to present day > 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 > Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799 > American Revolution (1775–1783)

Time period qualifiers > c 1500 onwards to present day > 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 > Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799 > USA: The New Nation (c 1783 to c 1800)

Artes > Arquitectura > Arquitetos individuais e gabinetes de arquitetura

História & arqueologia > História > História das Américas