The essays in this collection represent the type of research that has reshaped our understanding of early American architecture over the past thirty years. Carl R. Lounsbury, three-time winner of the
This collection of twelve essays on architectural history examines early American structures from the central eastern seaboard. The volume is divided into sections covering the origins of American arc
Lounsbury, architectural historian at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, looks at the courthouse plan and the prison system from 1650 to 1800, as well as the clerks' offices and taverns that suppor
For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake regio
Lounsbury, an architectural historian at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, updates this fine glossary (previously published by Oxford U. Press, 1994) of southern architecture including public buil
