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Gothic Revival Architecture in Indiana: Nicholson-Rand House, Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church, Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis

Gothic Revival Architecture in Indiana: Nicholson-Rand House, Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church, Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis


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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Nicholson-Rand House, Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church, Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis, St. Mary's Catholic Church (Indianapolis, Indiana), Immanuel Lutheran Church (Valparaiso, Indiana), Chatham Arch, Indianapolis, Noble County Sheriff's House and Jail. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Nicholson-Rand House - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Andrew Jackson Downing advocated truth in architecture while celebrating the picturesque and asymmetrical, and the use of tracery and carving as ornamentation. The Nicholson-Rand House is an American version of Gothic Revival as developed by Downing, built with native materials,. Downings illustrations of country houses are reflected in this house's asymmetry, picturesque windows, projecting eaves with decorated rafter tails and brackets, board-and-batten siding beneath the gables, lacy bargeboard, the many dormers, the entrance porch with its chamfered posts and scrollwork brackets, and the shape of the chimneys. Still relatively rural today, in 1876 the house was two to three hours from downtown Indianapolis by horseback or wagon over twelve miles of winding dirt roads. The nearest railroad depot was at Valley Mills, an hours walk away. Downings principles anticipated several elements of Craftsman houses, and even the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, as noted by architectural historian Vincent J. Scully, Jr. It is likely that the builder of the house, contractor and stonemason David Nicholson, was familiar with the popular books of Downing. His book Cottage Residences first appeared in 1842 and subsequent editions appeared regularly over the next three decades. Downings The Architecture of Country Houses was published in 1850, shortly before Nicholson arrived in America. Nicholson likely gathered ideas f... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=25889235


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781158290680
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 28
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 54 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1158290683
  • Publisher Date: 19 Jun 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Nicholson-Rand House, Reid Memorial Presbyterian Church, Christ Church Cathedral, Indianapolis
  • Width: 229 mm


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