American Architects and Their Books, 1840-1915

Contributors

C O N T R I B U T O R S JHENNIFER A. AMUNDSON earned a Master of Architecture degree at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and a Ph.D. at the University of Delaware. An associate professor of architecture at Judson College, she teaches, writes, and publishes on the history and theory of nineteenth- and twentieth-century architecture. She is the editor of Thomas Ustick Walter: The Lectures on Architecture. EDWARD R. BOSLEY is James N.Gamble Director of the Gamble House in Pasadena, a program of the University of Southern California School of Architecture, located in one of the finest Arts and Crafts houses in America.His publications include Greene and Greene and other books and articles related to the Arts and Crafts movement. He lectures widely on the Greenes and on historic preservation. TED CAVANAGH is an architect in Nova Scotia and chair of the School of Architecture at Clemson University in South Carolina. He holds an architectural degree from McGill University and a doctorate in the history of technology from Lehigh University. His research applies historical understanding of technological innovation to contemporary construction and design. ELSPETH COWELL holds a Master of Environmental Design degree from Yale University . Her research specializations are architectural working drawings and the professionalization of architects in America. She currently works for the Canadian Centre for Architecture. 290 contributors KENNETH HAFERTEPE holds a doctorate in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin and is now associate professor in the Department of Museum Studies at Baylor University.He is the author of America’s Castle:The Evolution of the Smithsonian Building and Its Institution, and Abner Cook: Master Builder on the Texas Frontier. ELAINE HARRINGTON holds a master’s degree from the Cooperstown Graduate Program.She is the former curator of the Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio,Oak Park, Illinois, the Glessner House, Chicago, and the Campbell-Whittlesey House in Rochester, New York. A consultant to the Clarke and Charnley Houses in Chicago and Hemingway’s birthplace in Oak Park, Illinois, she has written or lectured about these places as well as about the J. J. Glessner family library, William Morris, and Paisley shawls. MICHAEL J. LEWIS studied at the University of Pennsylvania and at the University of Hannover and teaches the history of American art and architecture at Williams College. Among his many books are The Politics of the German Gothic Revival (which won an Alice Davis Hitchcock Award of the Society of Architectural Historians), The Gothic Revival, and Frank Furness: Architecture and the Violent Mind. ANNE E. MALLEK is curator of the Gamble House in Pasadena. In 2002 she organized the exhibition William Morris: Creating the Useful and the Beautiful at the Huntington Library, and she helped research and prepare the 2004 exhibition and publication The Beauty of Life: William Morris and the Art of Design. She has lectured on Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement in Britain and America. JAMES F. O’GORMAN is Grace Slack McNeil Professor Emeritus of the History of American Art at Wellesley College and currently chair of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission. He has authored, coauthored, edited, or translated many books and articles on the history of American and European art and architecture. His Living Architecture: A Biography of H. H. Richardson,with photographs by Cervin Robinson,won the 1997 HenryRussell Hitchcock Prize of the Victorian Society in America. DANIEL D. REIFF is SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the visual arts at Fredonia State University. He is the author of numerous books and articles on American architecture from the eighteenth through the twentieth century, with special interest in the origins of architectural designs. In 2001 his Houses from Books received the Historic Preservation Book Prize from the Mary Washington College Center for Historic Preservation. EARLE G. SHETTLEWORTH, JR., who was appointed to the first board of the Maine Historic Preservation Commission in 1971 and has served as its director since 1976, has written and lectured extensively on Maine history and architecture, especially the work contributors 291 of Portland’s John Calvin Stevens. In Augusta he sits on the Blaine House Commission and the State House and Capitol Park Commission, and he chairs the Capitol Planning Commission. In 2004, Governor John Baldacci appointed him the Maine State Historian. CHRIS SZCZESNYADAMS is assistant professor of art history at the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. She received a...