American Castles (Architecture Art Ebook) pdf torrent

American Castles
A.S. Barnes and Company | 1973 | 0498012549 | English | 246 pages | PDF | 60 MB

One rarely thinks of American architecture in terms of castles, and yet here they stand, almost as a protest- against the ugliness of an industrial age, proudly displaying the grandeur of days gone by. The idea of castle architecture in America is not a new one. Many of the castles depicted here were constructed long ago, after the Revolutionary War and after the Civil War. Most of them were built in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with one, Chateau Laroche, still in process of being built at the time of this writing