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Book SynopsisThis is a volume that will be informative to specialists, but also a visual delight for the average reader. An indispensable addition to the field. ?John Wilmerding, Sarofim Professor of American Art, emeritus, Princeton University
William Morgan offers an overview of the flowering of the collegiate Gothic style in America between the Civil War and the crash of 1929. Here is a splendidly illustrated book full of insight.?New Criterion
Explore America''s most breathtaking college campuses ? where Gilded Age wealth found a Gothic inspiration.
The Collegiate Gothic style, which flourished between the Gilded Age and the Jazz Age, was intended to lend an air of dignified history to America's relatively youthful seats of higher learning. In fact, this mash-up of Oxbridge quaintness with piles of new money gave rise ? at schools like Princeton and Vassar, Yale and Chicago ? to unprecedented architectural fa
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"William Morgan offers an overview of the flowering of the collegiate Gothic style in America between the Civil War and the crash of 1929. Here is a splendidly illustrated book full of insight." - New Criterion
