Newport Through Its Architecture : A History of Styles from Postmedieval to Postmodern

Foreword vii M. Therese Antone Preface and Acknowledgments ix A Geographical and Historical Note on Aquidneck Island xiii Introduction xv The Postmedieval Jacobean Style and Newport's Founding 1(8) The Georgian Styles before the Revolutionary War 9(14) Federal and Greek Revival Architecture, 1780--1840 23(14) The Gothic Revival of the 1830s and 1840s 37(11) The Italian Villa and Italianate Architecture of the 1850s 48(14) The French Roof and the Civil War Era 62(11) The Stick Style of the 1860s and 1870s 73(12) Queen Anne Variants, 1870--1890 85(13) The Shingle Style before 1885 98(14) The Colonial Revival after 1885 112(9) The Beginnings of Beaux-Arts Newport, 1880--1890 121(11) Richard Morris Hunt and the Beaux-Arts, 1888-1895 132(21) The Beaux-Arts and Academic Eclecticism in the Twentieth Century 153(22) Modernism from the Bauhaus to Postmodernism 175(24) Appendix: A Brief Listing of Selected Newport Buildings by Architect 199(20) Notes 219(48) Selected Bibliography 267(18) Index 285