Building List: HIST 8690: American Architectural History

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First Half

  • Classical Antiquity
    1. Parthenon; Acropolis, Athens, Greece; c447-38 BC
    2. Pantheon; Rome; c118-28 AD

  • Colonial
    1. Parson Capen House; Topsfield, MA; 1683
    2. Old Ship Meetinghouse; Hingham, MA; 1681
    3. Adam Thoroughgood House; Princess Anne County, VA; 1636-40
    4. Bacon's Castle; Surry County, VA; c1655
    5. General James Oglethorpe; Plan of Savannah, GA; 1733
    6. Mount Airy; Richmond County, VA; 1758-62
    7. Peter Harrison; Redwood Library; Newport, RI; 1748-50

  • Neoclassicism
    1. Charles Pierre L'Enfant; Plan of Washington, DC; 1791
    2. William Thornton; United States Capitol; Washington, DC; 1792
    3. Charles Bulfinch; Massachusetts State House; Boston; 1795-8
    4. Banjamin Latrobe; Bank of Pennsylvania; Philadelphia; 1798-1800
    5. Benjamin Latrobe; Baltimore Cathedral; 1804
    6. Thomas Jefferson; Monticello; Charlottesville, VA; 1770-82, 1796-1809
    7. Thomas Jefferson; Virginia State Capitol; Richmond; 1785-9
    8. Thomas Jefferson; UVA Plan; Charlottesville; 1817-22
    9. Nathaniel Russell House; Charleston, SC; c1809

  • Greek Revival
    1. William Strickland; Second Bank of the United States; Philadelphia; 1818
    2. Thomas U. Walter; Girard College; Philadelphia; 1833-47
    3. Thomas U. Walter; Andalusia; near Philadelphia; 1797, 1834
    4. William Strickland; Philadelphia Merchants Exchange; 1832-4
    5. Henry Walters/Alexander Jackson Davis; Ohio State Capitol; Columbus; 1838

  • Egyptian/Exotic Revivals
    1. Thomas Stewart; Medical College of Virginia; Richmond; 1838-45
    2. William Strickland; Downtown First Presbyterian Church; Nashville, TN; 1848-1941
    3. John Haviland; Halls of Justice and House of Detention (the Tombs); New York; 1835-8

  • Romanesque Revival
    1. James Renwick; Smithsonian Institution; Washington, DC; 1846-55

  • Octagon Mode
    1. Samuel Sloane; Longwood; Natchez, MS; 1860-1

  • Gothic Revival
    1. John Haviland; Eastern States Penitentiary; Philadelphia; 1823-5
    2. Richard Upjohn; Trinity Church; New York City; 1839-46
    3. James Renwick; St. Patrick's Cathedral; New York City; 1858-79
    4. St. James-the-Less; Philadelphia; 1846-8
    5. Alexander Jackson Davis; Lyndhurst; Tarrytown, NY; 1838-65

  • Renaissance Revival
    1. John Notman; Athenaeum; Philadelphia; 1845-7

  • Second Empire
    1. Alfred B. Mullett; Old Executive Office Building (State, War, and Navy); Washington, DC; 1871-5
    2. John McArthur, Jr.; City Hall; Philadelphia, PA; 1871-1901

  • High Victorian Gothic
    1. Ware and Van Brunt; Memorial Hall; Harvard University - Cambridge, MA; 1870-6
    2. Frank Furness; Provident Life and Trust Company; Philadelphia, PA; 1876-9
    3. Frank Furness; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; Philadlephia, PA; 1871-6
    4. Frank Furness; University of Pennsylvania Library; Philadelphia, PA; 1888-90

  • Queen Anne
    1. H.H. Richardson; William Watts Sherman House; Newport, RI; 1874

  • Shingle Style
    1. H.H. Richardson; Stoughton House; Cambridge, MA; 1882-3
    2. McKim, Mead and White; Isaac Bell House; Newport, RI; 1882-3
    3. McKim, Mead and White; William Low House; Bristol, RI; 1887

  • Chateauesque
    1. Richard Morris Hunt; Biltmore; Asheville, NC; 1888-95

    Second Half

  • H.H. Richardson
    1. Trinity Church; Boston, MA; 1872-7
    2. Thomas Crane Memorial Library; Quincy, MA; 1880-3
    3. Ames Memorial; Sherman, WY; 1879-81
    4. F.L. Ames Gate Lodge; North Easton, MA; 1880-1
    5. Marshall Field Wholesale Store; Chicago, IL; 1885-7
    6. Allegheny County Courthouse/Jail; Pittsburgh, PA; 1883-8

  • Beaux-Arts Classicism
    1. Daniel Burnham (Director of Works); World's Columbian Exposition; Chicago, IL; 1893
    2. Richard Morris Hunt; The Breakers; Newport, RI; 1892-5
    3. McKim, Mead & White; Boston Public Library; Boston, MA; 1887-95
    4. McKim, Mead & White; Pennsylvania STation; New York, NY; 1902-11
    5. John Russell Pope; Jefferson Memorial; Washington, DC; 1939-43

  • City Beautiful Movement
    1. Senate Park Commission; Plan of Washington, DC; 1902

  • Chicago School
    1. William LeBaron Jenny; Home Insurance Building; Chicago, IL; 1883-5
    2. William LeBaron Jenny; Second Leiter Building; Chicago, IL; 1889-91
    3. Burnham and Root; Rookery; Chicago, IL; 1885-7
    4. Burnham and Root; Monadnock Building; Chicago, IL; 1889-91
    5. D.H. Burnham and Co.; Reliance Building; Chicago, IL; 1894-5 (begun by Burnham and Root, 1889-91)
    6. Adler & Sullivan; Auditorium Building; Chicago, IL; 1886-90
    7. Adler & Sullivan; Wainwright Building; St. Louis, MO; 1890-1
    8. Adler & Sullivan; Guaranty Building; Buffalo, NY; 1894-6
    9. Louis H. Sullivan; Carson Pirie Scott Store (Schlesinger & Mayer Store); Chicago, IL; 1898-1904

  • New York Skyscrapers
    1. Cass Gilbert; Woolworth Building; New York, NY; 1911-3
    2. Howells & Hood; Tribune Tower; Chicago, IL; 1922-5
    3. Eliel Saarinen; Tribune Tower Competition entry; 1922
    4. Raymond Hood; Americn Radiator Building; New York, NY; 1924
    5. Associated Architects; Rockefeller Center; New York, NY; 1027-35

  • Prairie Style
    1. Frank Lloyd Wright; William Winslow House; River Forest, IL; 1894
    2. Frank Lloyd Wright; Ward Willits House; Highland Park, IL; 1902
    3. Frank Lloyd Wright; Frederick C. Robie House; Chicago, IL; 1909
    4. Frank Lloyd Wright; Unity Temple; Oak Park, IL; 1904-6
    5. Frank Lloyd Wright; Larkin Building; Buffalo, NY; 1903

  • California in Early 20th Century
    1. Bernard Maybeck; First Church of Christ, Scientist; Berkeley, CA; 1909-11
    2. Greene & Greene; Gamble House; Pasadena, CA; 1908-9
    3. Frank Lloyd Wright; Millard House; Pasadena, CA; 1923

  • Frank Lloyd Wright: 1930-50
    1. Model for Broadacre City; 1931-5
    2. Fallingwater, on Bear Run; Fayette County, PA; 1936-7
    3. Herbert Jacobs House; Madison, WI; 1936
    4. Johnson Wax Administration Bldg; Racine, WI; 1936-9
      Laboratory Tower; 1946-9

  • European Modernism
    1. Austrian Architects and the Secession
      1. Joseph Maria Olbrich; Secession Building; Vienna; 1897-9
      2. Josef Hoffman; Stoclet House; Brussells; 1905-11
      3. Adolph Loos; Steiner House; Vienna; 1910
    2. Deutscher Werkbund
      1. Peter Behrens; AEG Turbine Factory; Berlin; 1909
      2. Walter Gropius & Adolf Meyer; Fagus Factory; Alfeld-an-der-Leine, Germany; 1911-2
    3. International Style in Europe
      1. Walter Gropius; The Bauhaus; Dessau, Germany; 1925-6
      2. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; German Pavilion, International Exposition; Barcelona, Spain; 1929
      3. Le Corbusier; Dom-ino Skeleton; 1914-5
      4. Le Corbusier; Weissenhof Estate Exhibition; Stuttgart, Germany; 1927
      5. Le Corbusier; Villa Savoye; Poissy, France; 1929-31
      6. Le Corbusier; Plan Voisin project; Paris; 1925

  • International Style in U.S.
    1. R.M. Schindler; Lovell Beach House; Newport Beach, CA; 1925-6
    2. Richard Neutra; Lovell Health House; Los Angeles, CA; 1927-9
    3. Howe & Lescaze; Philadelphia Savings Fund Society; Philadelphia, PA; 1929-32
    4. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Illinois Institute of Technology; Chicago, IL; begun 1939
      Crown Hall; 1950-6
    5. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; 860-880 Lakeshore Drive; Chicago, IL; 1949-51
    6. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; Farnsworth House; Plano, IL; 1945-50
    7. Philip Johnson; Glass House; New Canaan, CT; 1945-9
    8. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & Philip Johnson; Seagram Building; New York, NY; 1954-8
    9. Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Lever House; New York, NY; 1950-2

  • Modernism: 1950-70
    1. Frank Lloyd Wright; Guggenheim Museum; New York, NY; 1957-60
    2. Eero Saarinen; TWA Terminal, JFK Airport; New York, NY; 1956-62
    3. Eero Ssarinen; Dulles International Airport; Chantilly, VA; 1958-62
    4. Louis I. Kahn; Salk Institute for Biological Studies; La Jolla, CA; 1959-65

  • Post-Modernism: 1960-85
    1. Robert Venturi; Guild House; Philadelphia, PA; 1960-5
    2. Philip Johnson & John Burgee; AT&T Building; New York, NY; 1978-84
    3. Philip Johnson & John Burgee; PPG Place; Pittsburgh, PA; 1979-84