The Gothic Revival and American Church Architecture
Subtitle: An Episode in Taste, 1840-1856 (Johns Hopkins Studies in Nineteenth Century Architecture)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: July 1, 1968
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780801806124
Subjects: General; Genetics; Art / General; United States; Art & Art Instruction; Church architecture; Gothic revival (Architecture)
First sentence: The wish to copy Gothic architecture and the thoughts about building which developed as a result were singularly expressive of the respect and nostalgia for the past which were characteristic of the nineteenth century.