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100 1 $aLee, Antoinette J.$q(Antoinette Josephine)$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88142630
245 10 $aArchitects to the nation :$bthe rise and decline of the Supervising Architect's Office /$cAntoinette J. Lee ; with foreword by William Seale.
260 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2000.
300 $axvi, 336 pages :$billustrations ;$c27 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 297-325) and index.
505 00 $tForeword /$rWilliam Seale --$g1.$tPrelude --$g2.$tNo Blueprint for the New Nation, 1789-1851 --$g3.$tThe Bureau of Construction and the Corps of Engineers, 1852-1865 --$g4.$tAlfred B. Mullett, 1866-1874 --$g5.$tThe Supervising Architect's Office in the Gilded Age, 1875-1894 --$g6.$tThe Tarsney Act, Its Passage and Postponement in Implementation, 1893-1896 --$g7.$tProponents of "Academic Classicism," 1895-1925 --$g8.$tThe Public Buildings Program in Eras of Affluence and Depression, 1926-1939 --$tEpilogue: 1940 - Present.
520 1 $a"Architects to the Nation provides the first comprehensive history of the Office of the Supervising Architect, the organization that designed federal government buildings from the early 1850s to the late 1930s. Author Antoinette J. Lee examines the evolution of the Office, traces its creative output, and describes the public relations battles between the government architects and the architects in private practice.
520 8 $aThe result is a unique and authoritative study of the nation's efforts to achieve an appropriate civic architecture."--BOOK JACKET.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bDepartment of the Treasury.$bOffice of Supervising Architect.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86840605
650 0 $aPublic buildings$zUnited States$vDesigns and plans.
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