The Buildings of Peter Harrison

Cataloguing the Work of the First Global Architect, 1716-1775

John Fitzhugh Millar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

244 Seiten

2014
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-0-7864-7962-7 (ISBN)

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Perhaps the most important architect ever to have worked in America, Peter Harrison's renown suffers from the destruction of most of his papers when he died in 1775. He was born in Yorkshire, England in 1716 and trained to be an architect as a teenager. He also became a ship captain, and soon sailed to ports in America, where he began designing some of the most iconic buildings of the continent. In a clandestine operation, he procured the plans for the French Canadian fortress of Louisbourg, enabling Massachusetts Governor William Shirley to capture it in 1745. This setback forced the French to halt their operation to capture all of British America and to give up British territory they had captured in India. As a result, he was rewarded with commissions to design important buildings in Britain and in nearly all British colonies around the world, and he became the first person ever to have designed buildings on six continents. He designed mostly in a neo-Palladian style, and invented a way of building wooden structures so as to look like carved stone--"wooden rustication." He also designed some of America's most valuable furniture, including inventing the coveted "block-front," and introducing the bombe motif. In America, he lived in Newport, Rhode Island, and in New Haven, Connecticut, where he died at the beginning of the War of Independence.

Material-culture historian John Fitzhugh Millar has several books to his credit on architectural history, colonial ships, and historic dance, and he runs the historic Bed & Breakfast “Newport House” in Williamsburg, Virginia. More illustrations are on the author’s website www.historicarchitecture.guru.

Table of Contents

Preface

I. Carl Bridenbaugh’s Account of Harrison

II. A New Narrative of the Life of Peter Harrison

III. The British Isles and Europe

IV. Canada

V. New England

VI. The Mid-Atlantic

VII. The American South and Atlantic Islands

VIII. The Caribbean

IX. Other Continents—South America, Africa, Asia and Australasia

X. Furniture

Appendices

A—Buildings Attributed to Harrison

B—Student to Teacher

C—Architectural Pattern Books in Harrison’s Library

Illustrated Glossary of Architectural Terms

Bibliography

Index

Zusatzinfo	135 photos and illustrations, appendices, glossary, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	216 x 279 mm
Gewicht	585 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	0-7864-7962-0 / 0786479620
ISBN-13	978-0-7864-7962-7 / 9780786479627
Zustand	Neuware