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Architecture & academe :college buildings in New England before 1860 /Bryant F. Tolles, Jr.

Collection Type

  • Books and periodicals

GUSN

GUSN-303599

Description

xxi, 217 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Details

Descriptive Terms

College buildings History.
Campus planning History.
Campus planning.
College buildings.

Originator

Tolles, Bryant Franklin, 1939-

Contents

Introduction -- The colleges of the colonial period. Harvard and Yale : planning and design precedents are established -- Brown and Dartmouth : the persistence of colonial traditions -- The colleges between the Revolution and the Civil War. Williams and Bowdoin : contrasting planning theories and the land -- The Vermont institutions : University of Vermont, Middlebury, and Norwich University -- The continuing Massachusetts legacy : Amherst, Holy Cross, and Tufts -- Trinity and Wesleyan in Connecticut -- Colby and Bates in Maine.

Publication

Hanover : University Press of New England

Description

xxi, 217 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-211) and index.

ISBN

9781584658917 (cloth : alk. paper)
1584658916 (cloth : alk. paper)

Call Number

Stacks NA6603.T65 2011

Places

New England
New England.

Edition

1st ed.

Variant Title

Architecture and academe
College buildings in New England before 1860

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