William Macy Stanton (eBook)

Architect of the Cumberland

Delos Hughes (Autor)

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2025 | 1
128 Seiten
University of Tennessee Press (Verlag)
978-1-62190-971-2 (ISBN)

Infos

In 1933, President Franklin Roosevelts New Deal launched the Tennessee Valley Authority and the Subsistence Homesteads Division to help bring economic relief to families and communities devastated by the Great Depression. With the creation of these new programs came a need for the infrastructure that could support them, and for this, the Roosevelt administration turned to William Macy Stanton. Born to a Quaker family in Ohio in 1888, Stanton worked as an instructor of drawing and design at the University of Illinois School of Architecture before establishing an independent practice in Philadelphia in the early 1920s. During the Depression, he worked on architectural projects in Tennessee for the TVAincluding the town of Norris, where the builders of Norris Dam would live. As the New Deal era dawned, Stanton moved to Crossville to design the proposed Cumberland Homesteads. In addition to this work, Stanton is widely regarded for his hotel designs, including The Lafayette and James Madison Hotels in Atlantic City, as well as his restoration of Quaker meetinghouses. In this new biography, Delos D. Hughes weaves the story of Stantons life and career together with the broader historical context of the Great Depression and New Deal initiatives. The book is divided into three parts, exploring Stantons life and work before, during, and after his involvement with the Cumberland Homesteads; Hughes examines the intersection of architecture and social policy throughout. Rich with historical photographs, Stantons own architectural drawings, and other original imagery on nearly every page, Hughess work will delight architectural history enthusiasts and Tennessee history scholars.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.11.2025
• Zusatzinfo: more than 200 photos, drawings, and schematics
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 200 x 200 mm
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: American architecture 1930s • architectural drawings New Deal • architectural history biography • architectural history Tennessee • architecture of economic recovery • Crossville Tennessee history • Cumberland Homesteads design • Cumberland Plateau history • Delos D. Hughes author • Great Depression relief efforts • historical photographs architecture • historic hotels Atlantic City • James Madison Hotel architect • Lafayette Hotel design • New Deal architecture • Norris Dam town architecture • Norris Tennessee town planning • Quaker architects • Quaker meetinghouse restoration • Roosevelt New Deal programs • social policy and architecture • Subsistence Homesteads Division • Tennessee architecture biography • Tennessee Valley Authority architecture • TVA projects • William Macy Stanton biography
• ISBN-10: 1-62190-971-9 / 1621909719
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62190-971-2 / 9781621909712