United States Capitol Historical Society Search this
Subject:
United States Capitol (Washington, D.C.) Search this
Physical description:
ix, 316 p., [8] p. of col. plates : ill., map ; 27 cm
Type:
Congresses
Place:
Washington (D.C.)
Date:
2000
C2000
18th century
19th century
Notes:
Papers from the U.S. Capitol Historical Society's first two conferences dedicated to the history and appreciation of the U.S. Capitol.
Contents:
"Seat of broils, confusion, and squandered thousands" : building the Capitol, 1790-1802 / William C. Allen -- Forms into architecture : reform ideals and the gauntlets of the real in Latrobe's surveyorships at the U.S. Capitol, 1803-1817 / Jeffrey A. Cohen -- Charles Bulfinch : well-connected, refined gentleman architect / Pamela Scott -- Thomas U. Walter and the search for propriety / James M. Goode -- Right-hand men : the development of the Office of Architect of the Capitol, 1865-1954 / William B. Bushong -- Historicization of the U.S. Capitol and the Office of Architect, 1954-1996 / Richard Guy Wilson -- Artist of the Capitol / Barbara A. Wolanin -- Study of Constantino Brumidi's painting technique in the Senate corridors / Catherine S. Myers -- Brumidi and the case of the mutant mantel clock : national iconography in decorative projects for the House of Representatives extension, 1855-1858 / David Sellin -- Emanuel Leutze's Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way : imagining Manifest Destiny, the "Stars and Stripes," and the Civil War / Daniel Clayton Lewis -- Albert Bierstadt : history painter for the U.S. Capitol / Kimberly A. Jones -- "Worthy of national commemoration" : national Statuary Hall and the heroic ideal, 1864-1997 / Teresa B. Lachin
