Title: The crowning of the American landscape :
Authors: Creese, Walter L.
Date: 1985
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Physical description: xi, 289 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm
Language: English
LC class: S
Abstract: "From areas as large as the Hudson Valley and Yosemite National Park to those as small as the Fens in Boston and Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin Valley, Walter Creese analyzes the historical essence of eight distinguished American sites and their architecture."--Jacket.
Contents: pt. I. Great given spaces, almost too large to comprehend or handle. Jefferson's Charlottesville ; The Hudson Valley ; Yosemite National Park ; Mt. Hood national Forest and timberline Lodge -- pt. II. Smaller spaces, treated more directly and actively, so that they might even be called inventions. The Boston Fens ; Graceland Cemetery and the landscaped lawn ; Riverside: the greatest American suburb ; Wright's Taliesin and beyond.
Notes: Includes index.