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- catalog abstract ""Architects to the Nation provides the first comprehensive history of the Office of the Supervising Architect, the organization that designed federal government buildings from the early 1850s to the late 1930s. Author Antoinette J. Lee examines the evolution of the Office, traces its creative output, and describes the public relations battles between the government architects and the architects in private practice. The result is a unique and authoritative study of the nation's efforts to achieve an appropriate civic architecture."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11658759.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""Architects to the Nation provides the first comprehensive history of the Office of the Supervising Architect, the organization that designed federal government buildings from the early 1850s to the late 1930s. Author Antoinette J. Lee examines the evolution of the Office, traces its creative output, and describes the public relations battles between the government architects and the architects in private practice.".
- catalog description "Foreword / William Seale -- Prelude -- No blueprint for the new nation, 1789-1851 -- The Bureau of Construction and the Corps of Engineers, 1852-1865 -- Alfred B. Mullett, 1866-1874 -- The Supervising Architect's Office in the Gilded Age, 1875-1894 -- The Tarsney Act, its passage and postponement in implementation, 1893-1896 -- Proponents of "Academic Classicism," 1895-1925 -- The public buildings program in eras of affluence and depression, 1926-1939 -- Epilogue: 1940.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-325) and index.".
- catalog description "The result is a unique and authoritative study of the nation's efforts to achieve an appropriate civic architecture."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 336 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0195128222 (acid-free paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog subject "725/.1/0973 21".
- catalog subject "NA4421 .L44 2000".
- catalog subject "Public buildings United States Designs and plans.".
- catalog subject "United States. Department of the Treasury. Office of Supervising Architect.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Foreword / William Seale -- Prelude -- No blueprint for the new nation, 1789-1851 -- The Bureau of Construction and the Corps of Engineers, 1852-1865 -- Alfred B. Mullett, 1866-1874 -- The Supervising Architect's Office in the Gilded Age, 1875-1894 -- The Tarsney Act, its passage and postponement in implementation, 1893-1896 -- Proponents of "Academic Classicism," 1895-1925 -- The public buildings program in eras of affluence and depression, 1926-1939 -- Epilogue: 1940.".
- catalog title "Architects to the nation : the rise and decline of the Supervising Architect's Office / Antoinette J. Lee ; with foreword by William Seale.".
- catalog type "Designs and plans. fast".
- catalog type "text".