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Author/Artist	Craven, Wayne.
Title	Gilded mansions : grand architecture and high society / Wayne Craven.
Edition	1st ed.
Publisher/Date	New York : W.W. Norton & Co., c2009.
Description	383 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.

Location	Call Number	Vol./Copy	Status Information
Frick Offsite - Request in Advance	NA7511.4.N4 C73 2009		AVAILABLE

Table of Contents
	An Introduction to the Gilded Age	7
Ch. 1	Society, Europe, and Aristocracy: The Empire of the Parvenu	19
Ch. 2	The Early Mansions - Part One	33
Ch. 3	The Early Mansions - Part Two	53
Ch. 4	The Commodore and Beetlehead: The William Henry Vanderbilt Mansion	81
Ch. 5	Alva and William Kissam Vanderbilt: A Petit Chateau on Fifth Avenue	107
Ch. 6	The Cornelius Vanderbilt II Mansion	129
Ch. 7	Newport: Vernacular versus Grandeur	151
Ch. 8	Richard Morris Hunt: Biltmore and The Rothschild Factor	185
Ch. 9	The Astor Mansion	207
Ch. 10	McKim, Mead and White: Origins of the Firm and the Early Work at Newport	227
Ch. 11	McKim, Mead and White: The Villard Houses	239
Ch. 12	Stanford White: Collector, Dealer, and Interior Decorator	257
Ch. 13	The William C. Whitney Houses	275
Ch. 14	Newport Revisited: Rosecliff Crossways, and The Elms	291
Ch. 15	The Progeny of the Petit Chateau and the Villard Houses	309
Ch. 16	Facades in the Modern French Manner	337
	Endnotes	362
	Bibliography	371
	Index	375

Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-374) and index.
LC subject	Mansions -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Millionaires -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
	Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
	Architecture and society -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 19th century.
	Architecture and society -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN	9780393067545 (hardcover)
	0393067548 (hardcover)
WorldCat no.	215172658

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