The first architect trained in America, Robert Mills is best known as the designer of many iconic buildings in our nation's capital: the Washington Monument, the Department of Treasury headquarters, the Patent Office Building (now National Portrait Gallery), and the Post Office Headquarters. Mills, whose career spanned the period 1810 to 1855, was a colleague of James Hoban, architect of the White House, and Thomas Jefferson, designer of Monticello and the University of Virginia. He trained with Benjamin Henry Latrobe, designer of the Virginia State Capitol and the Bank of Pennsylvania. With this circle of friends, Mills was instrumental in creating the physical design of the new republic. Robert Mills: America's First Architect is the first complete monograph on this pivotal architect--beautifully illustrated with never-before-published watercolors and renderings and new color photography commissioned for the book. Author John Bryan, a best-selling historian and wonderful storyteller, weaves the history of Mills's architectural designs and engineering inventions together with the lives of the individuals who most influenced him, and shows how he can rightly be called our founding father of architecture.
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Robert Mills, who claimed to be the first native-born American architect, is best known for his federal buildings and monuments, including the Department of Treasury building, the Patent Office building (now the National Portrait Gallery), and the Washington Monument. During a career that ranged from 1802 to 1855, he was associated with three icons of American architecture: James Hoban, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and Thomas Jefferson. This comprehensive biography provides a readable text with 190 color and 100 black-and-white illustrations. It also captures Mills's other diverse accomplishments, including the first systematic mapping of any state (South Carolina) and compilation of the first directory of American lighthouses. This title is essential for all large architecture collections. For smaller collections already owning Rhodri Windsor Liscombe's Altogether American: Robert Mills Architect and Engineer (Oxford Univ., 1994. o.p.) or Robert Mills, Architect, edited by Bryan (1989. o.p.), this book's handsome format is more a justification for purchase than is additional content. Jay Schafer, Univ. of Massachusetts, Amherst
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John Bryan is Professor of Art History at the University of South Carolina, Columbia and author of G.W. Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate.
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I bought this book to learn more about a recently discovered relative, Robert Mills. After reading it, I would be proud just to have known this man, let alone be related to him. He was the first architect educated as such in the young United States of America. What an architect he was! If you've ever visited Washington, D.C., you'll be filled with patriotism just by gazing at his momuments. Start with the U.S. Postal Office.Add the National Gallery of the Art. Finish with the Washington Monument. My chest is just swelling with pride. This book is not just a reference for architectural students. It's a history book for each of us.
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THE SECOND PHASE of Mills' education-his active work with professionals and acquaintance with Jefferson-began circa 1800 in Washington, D.C. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
fireproof offices, monumental porch, raised basement, shear legs, monumental church, iron tie rods, fireproof construction, domestic correspondence, principal floor, circular church, fireproof building, auditorium churches, groined vaults, blind arches, feeder canal, marine hospitals, applied ornament Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Robert Mills, New York, William Parker Elliot, Washington National Monument, Appraiser's Store, White House, General Post Office, Jones Falls, Schuylkill Bridge, Board of Public Works, New Orleans, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, New England, Secretary of the Treasury, State House, Granite Style, Society of Artists, Waterloo Row, Independence Hall, Key West, Sansom Street, Smithsonian Institution, Treasury Department, University of Virginia, Washington Hall New!
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fireproof offices, monumental porch, raised basement, shear legs, monumental church, iron tie rods, fireproof construction, domestic correspondence, principal floor, circular church, fireproof building, auditorium churches, groined vaults, blind arches, feeder canal, marine hospitals, applied ornament Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Robert Mills, New York, William Parker Elliot, Washington National Monument, Appraiser's Store, White House, General Post Office, Jones Falls, Schuylkill Bridge, Board of Public Works, New Orleans, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, New England, Secretary of the Treasury, State House, Granite Style, Society of Artists, Waterloo Row, Independence Hall, Key West, Sansom Street, Smithsonian Institution, Treasury Department, University of Virginia, Washington Hall New!
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- Robert Mills, Architect by Robert Mills on 10 pages
- Church Architecture of Robert Mills by Rhodri Windsor Liscombe on 5 pages
- Life on the Mississippi (Signet Classics) by Mark Twain on page 227, page 228, and Back Matter
- Architects of Charleston by Beatrice St. Julien Ravenel in Front Matter, page 225, and Back Matter
- Architecture of the Old South by Mills Lane in Front Matter, page 227, and Back Matter
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