{"product_id":"architecture-walks-the-best-outings-near-new-york-city-9780813547343","title":"Architecture Walks  The Best Outings Near New","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFeatures one hundred architecture walks from New York to Connecticut, around New Jersey, into the eastern edge of Pennsylvania, and on to Delaware. From reflections of three hundred years of history to expressions of the most modern design, this title guides you on a tour of informative architectural treasures in and around the New York area.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eArchitecture Walks\u003c\/i\u003e we get an engaging confluence of architecture and history. You should buy \u003ci\u003eArchitecture Walks\u003c\/i\u003e and stick it in the car, in case you ever find yourself with time on your hands—and have another copy in the house to plan a trip. It's a splendid addition to the New Jersey bookshelf and I can't wait to hit the road.\" * The Beachcomber *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e      CONNECTICUT\u003cbr\u003e           Iconic Modernism\u003cbr\u003e                The Glass House of Philip Johnson, New Canaan\u003cbr\u003e           Three Eighteenth-Century Architectural Treasures on the Connecticut Shore\u003cbr\u003e                Bush-Holley House, Cos Cob; Ogden House, Fairfield; and Judson House, Stratford\u003cbr\u003e           Two Architectural Eccentricities\u003cbr\u003e                Gillette Castle and Goodspeed Opera House, East Haddam\u003cbr\u003e           A Bustling, Carefuly Preserved Colonial Village\u003cbr\u003e                Litchfield\u003cbr\u003e           A Modernist Church in the Shape of a Fish\u003cbr\u003e                First Presbyterian Church, Stamford\u003cbr\u003e           From McKim, Mead \u0026amp; White to Cesar Pelli\u003cbr\u003e                The Architects of Waterbury\u003cbr\u003e           A Walk Through the ``Jewel of Long Island Sound''\u003cbr\u003e                Southport\u003cbr\u003e           Tradition Meets the Contemporary\u003cbr\u003e                Yale University Architecture, New Haven\u003cbr\u003e           Exuberant Victoriana\u003cbr\u003e                The Lockwood-Mathews Mansion, Norwalk\u003cbr\u003e           Exceptional Stained Glass, Both Traditional and Modern\u003cbr\u003e                Bethel, Bridgeport, Fairfield, Greenwich, Old Greenwich, Stamford, and Waterbury\u003cbr\u003e           Historic Sites in a Coastal Community\u003cbr\u003e                Guilford\u003cbr\u003e           Contrasting Architectural Neighbors\u003cbr\u003e                Bridgeport\u003cbr\u003e                And Keep in Mind\u003cbr\u003e           Berlin Historic District\u003cbr\u003e           Two Forts Near New Haven\u003cbr\u003e           Hotchkiss Clocktower, Sharon\u003cbr\u003e           Milford's Wharf Lane Complex\u003cbr\u003e      NEW YORK STATE: LOWER HUDSON VALLEY, EAST\u003cbr\u003e           Sunnyside\u003cbr\u003e                One of America's Favorite Houses, Irvington\u003cbr\u003e           Frank Lloyd Wright's ``Usonia''\u003cbr\u003e                A Planned Community, Pleasantville\u003cbr\u003e           Buddhist Symbols and Influences in Rural Putnam County\u003cbr\u003e                Chuang Yen Monastery, Carmel\u003cbr\u003e           Boscobel\u003cbr\u003e                A Hudson River Estate in the Federal Style, Garrison\u003cbr\u003e           Manitoga\/The Russell Wright Center\u003cbr\u003e                Unique Architecture by a Noted Twentieth-Century Designer of Decorative Arts, Garrison\u003cbr\u003e           Philipsburg Manor\u003cbr\u003e                Northern Plantation Style, Tarrytown\u003cbr\u003e           Lyndhurst\u003cbr\u003e                A Romantic Castle, Tarrytown\u003cbr\u003e           Kykuit\u003cbr\u003e                Palatial Glamour in a Classical Revival Estate, Pocantico Hills And Keep in Mind\u003cbr\u003e           The Old Dutch Church of Sleepy Hollow: A Very Early House of Worship, North Tarrytown\u003cbr\u003e           Union Church of Pocantico Hills: Where Chagall and Architecture Meet\u003cbr\u003e           Van Cortlandt Manor: An Example of a Dutch Patent House, Croton-On-Hudson\u003cbr\u003e      NEW YORK STATE: MID-HUDSON VALLEY, EAST\u003cbr\u003e           The Italianate Style of America's Renaissance Man\u003cbr\u003e                Samuel F. B. Morse's Locust Grove, Poughkeepsie\u003cbr\u003e           Spectacular Campus Additions Frank Gehry and Rafael Vinoly\u003cbr\u003e           A McKim, Mead \u0026amp; White Extravaganza in the Beaux Arts Style\u003cbr\u003e                The Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park\u003cbr\u003e           Alexander Jackson Davis and Andrew Jackson Downing Join Forces on a Hudson River Estate\u003cbr\u003e                Montgomery Place, Annandale-on-Hudson\u003cbr\u003e           Touring Architectural History on a Venerable Campus\u003cbr\u003e                Vassar College, Poughkeepsie\u003cbr\u003e           The Artist's Imagination in a Dramatic Moorish Palace\u003cbr\u003e                Olana, Hudson\u003cbr\u003e           The ``Picturesque'' in Architecture and Landscape Design\u003cbr\u003e                Wilderstein, Rhinebeck\u003cbr\u003e           Richard Upjohn's Venture into Secular Italianate Architecture\u003cbr\u003e                Lindenwald, the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site, Kinderhook\u003cbr\u003e           Mills Mansion\u003cbr\u003e                A McKim, Mead \u0026amp; White Estate, Staatsburg And Keep in Mind\u003cbr\u003e           Wing's Castle, Millbrook\u003cbr\u003e           Clermont, Germantown\u003cbr\u003e      NEW YORK STATE: WEST OF THE HUDSON\u003cbr\u003e           The Stone Houses of Huguenot Street\u003cbr\u003e                New Paltz\u003cbr\u003e           Romantic Castle Ruins on an Island\u003cbr\u003e                Bannerman's Castle, Pollepel Island\u003cbr\u003e           Environmental Art---Or Architecture\u003cbr\u003e                Opus 40, Woodstock\u003cbr\u003e           A Victorian Waterfront Village\u003cbr\u003e                Historic Rondout, Kingston\u003cbr\u003e           Exploring the Stockade District\u003cbr\u003e                Kingston\u003cbr\u003e           A Rustic Village of Early Dutch and Huguenot Design\u003cbr\u003e                Hurley\u003cbr\u003e           Gothic Splendor at the United States Military Academy\u003cbr\u003e                West Point And Keep in Mind\u003cbr\u003e                The ``Cottages'' of Elegant Onteora Park, Jewett\u003cbr\u003e      NEW YORK STATE: LONG ISLAND\u003cbr\u003e           Old Bethpage Village Restoration\u003cbr\u003e                Rural Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Long Island\u003cbr\u003e           Melding East and West\u003cbr\u003e                The Charles B. Wang Center at Suny-Stony Brook\u003cbr\u003e           The Gilded Life\u003cbr\u003e                Three Glamorous Estates of the Early Twentieth Century: Eagle's Nest (the Vanderbilt Museum), Centerport; Westbury House, Old Westburg; and Falaise, Sands Point\u003cbr\u003e           A Gothic Revival Landmark\u003cbr\u003e                The Cathedral of the Incarnation, Garden City\u003cbr\u003e           Beachfront, Deco-Era Icon\u003cbr\u003e                Jones Beach, Wantagh\u003cbr\u003e           In Search of Historic Architecture\u003cbr\u003e                Stony Brook, Setauket, East Setauket, and Smithtown\u003cbr\u003e           Roslyn Preserves the Past\u003cbr\u003e                Visiting Cedarmere and Other Pleasures of the Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e           Exploring the Long Island Lighthouse\u003cbr\u003e                Eaton's Neck Light, Huntington Harbor Light, Old Field Light, Stepping Stones Light, and Others\u003cbr\u003e           Looking at Windmills on the Eastern end of Long Island\u003cbr\u003e                Water Mill Museum, Beebe Windmill, Hook Windmill, and Pantigo Windmill And Keep in Mind\u003cbr\u003e           First Presbyterian Church, Glen Cove\u003cbr\u003e           Brooklyn Waterworks, Freeport\u003cbr\u003e           Rock Hall Museum, Lawrence\u003cbr\u003e           Saint George's Episcopal Church, Hempstead\u003cbr\u003e      NEW JERSEY\u003cbr\u003e           An Early Quaker Community with a Colonial and Federal Streetscape\u003cbr\u003e                Mount Holly            Where Thomas Edison Lived and Worked\u003cbr\u003e                Glenmont and the Edision National Historic Sites, West Orange\u003cbr\u003e           A Colonial Streetscape on the Delaware\u003cbr\u003e                The Well-Preserved Town of Burlington\u003cbr\u003e           Princetion Unversity's Startling Contemporary Additions to its Gothic Campus\u003cbr\u003e                Princeton\u003cbr\u003e           A Bauhaus-Inspired Utopian Village\u003cbr\u003e                Roosevelt\u003cbr\u003e           Guardians of the New Jersey Coastline\u003cbr\u003e                The Lighthouse as Architecture: Sandy Hook, Barnegat, Navesink, Cape May, Hereford Inlet, East Point, Finn's Point\u003cbr\u003e           Craftsman Farms\u003cbr\u003e                The Arts and Carfts Aesthetic, Morris Plains\u003cbr\u003e           A Victorian Village on the Shore\u003cbr\u003e                The Planned Community of Ocean Grove\u003cbr\u003e           Three Archtectural Wonders at Liberty State Park\u003cbr\u003e                Railroad Terminal, Environmental, Center, and Eillis Island\u003cbr\u003e           A Victorian Streetscape of Decorative Houses\u003cbr\u003e                Belvidere\u003cbr\u003e           Rural Villages of the Past\u003cbr\u003e                Walnfod, Allaire, Batsto, and Feltville\u003cbr\u003e           A Fanciful Victorian Seaside Resort\u003cbr\u003e                Cape May\u003cbr\u003e           An Eighteenth-Century Moravian Village Built of Stone\u003cbr\u003e                Hope\u003cbr\u003e           Architectural Pleasures in a Historic Town Setting\u003cbr\u003e                Perth Amboy\u003cbr\u003e           Architectural Pleasures in a Historic Town Setting\u003cbr\u003e                Perth Amboy\u003cbr\u003e           Skylands\u003cbr\u003e                A Deliberately ``Aged'' Mansion, Ringwood\u003cbr\u003e                     John Russell Pope\u003cbr\u003e                And Keep in Mind\u003cbr\u003e           Dickinson House: A Patterned Brick House in Alloway Township\u003cbr\u003e           A Picturesque Railroad Station, Tenafly\u003cbr\u003e           Buccleigh: A Georgian Mansion, New Brunswick\u003cbr\u003e           The Ruins of Undercliff: ``Bloomer's Beach,'' Englewood\u003cbr\u003e           The Ruins of Long Pond, Hewitt\u003cbr\u003e           A Riverside Mill and Historic Village, Clinton\u003cbr\u003e           A Lois Kahn Icon: The ``Trenton'' Bathhouse, Ewing       DELAWARE AND PENNSYLVANIA\u003cbr\u003e           From Georgian Brick to Gothic Revival\u003cbr\u003e                The Historic River Town of New Castle, Delaware\u003cbr\u003e           Grey Towers\u003cbr\u003e                A French-Style Chateau in Rural Pennsylvaina, Milford\u003cbr\u003e           Pyramids, Gothic Arches, and Classical Temples\u003cbr\u003e                West Laurel Hill Cemetery, Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e           Modernism Meets Symbolism\u003cbr\u003e                Frank Lloyd Wright's Beth Sholom Synagogue, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e           Henry Chapman Mercer Leaves his ``Arts and Crafts'' Mark on a Small Town\u003cbr\u003e                Doylestown, Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e           A Walking Tour Through a Trasure Trove of Historic Houses\u003cbr\u003e                Doylestown, Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e           A Nineteenth-Century Railroad Viaduct Balancing Progress and Natural Beauty\u003cbr\u003e                Starrucca Viaduct, Susquehanna, Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e                And Keep in Mind\u003cbr\u003e           An Architectural Drive Through Northeastern Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e                From Milford to Cortez\u003cbr\u003e           A Historic Village and William Penn's Estate\u003cbr\u003e                Fallsington and Morrisville, Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e           An Early Roebling Suspension Bridge\u003cbr\u003e           Lackwaxen, Pennsylvania\u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Architectural Styles in the Region \u003cbr\u003e Choosing an Outing","brand":"MW - Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default 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