ASC 4184 - Palaces for Pleasure & Power: American Country Home in the Gilded Age, 1870-1929

The Gilded Age - General History

Cashman, S. D. (1984) America in the Gilded Age : from the death of Lincoln to the rise of Theodore Roosevelt. New York : New York University Press. E661 .C38 1984

Clark, J. F. (1992) America's gilded age : an eyewitness history. New York : Facts on File. New Book Shelf E661 .C57 1992

American country houses of the Gilded Age (Sheldon's "Artistic country-seats"). (1982) new text by Arnold Lewis. New York : Dover Publications. NA7610 .A58 1982 (2nd copy in Special Collections)

Architecture and Architects

America's castles. Gold Coast estates. (1996) Produced by Cinetel Productions in association with A&E Television Network. New York : A&E Home Video. Videotape NA7105 .A54 1996 Gol

Aslet, Clive. (1990) The American country house. New Haven : Yale University Press. Reserves Window E159 .A85 1990

Havemeyer, H. W., (1996) Along the Great South Bay : from Oakdale to Babylon, the story of a summer spa, 1840-1940. Mattituck, NY : Amereon House. Special Collections F127.S9 H3 1996

Mackay, Robert B., Anthony K. Baker, and Carol A. Traynor, eds. (1997) Long Island country houses and their architects, 1860-1940. foreword by Brendan Gill. New York : Society for the Preservation of Long Island Antiquities in association with W.W. Norton & Co. Reference NA7561 .L665 1997 (Addl copies in Spec. Collections & Main Stacks)

Stern, Robert A. M., Thomas Mellins, and David Fishman. (1999) New York 1880 : architecture and urbanism in the gilded age. New York : Monacelli Press.New Book Area NA735.N5 S727 1999

Life in the Gilded Age

Auchincloss, Louis. (1989) The Vanderbilt era. New York : Macmillan. Special Collections CT274.V35 A93 1989

Carosso, V. P. (1987) The Morgans : private international bankers, 1854-1913. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. HG2463.A2 C37 1987

Gregory, Alexis. (1993) Families of fortune : life in the Gilded Age. introduction by John Kenneth Galbraith. New York : Rizzoli .E168 .G813 1993 (2nd copy in Special Collections)

Gardens and Gardening

Bruce, Harold. (1968) Winterthur in bloom : winter, spring, summer, autumn. photographs by Gottlieb and Hilda Hampfler ; foreword by Henry Frances Dupont ; a history of the gardens by C. Gordon Tyrrell. Columbus, Ohio : C. E. Merrill Pub. Co.SB466.U7 W5 1968

Leighton, Ann. (1987) American gardens of the nineteenth century : "for comfort and affluence." Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press.SB451.3 .L46 198

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