This book offers the first full-scale examination of the architecture associated with the Arts and Crafts movement that spread all over New England on the turn of the twentieth century. Despite the fact that interest within the Arts and Crafts movement has grown for the reason that 1970s, the literature on New England has focused on craft production. Meister traces the history of the movement from its origins in mid-nineteenth-century England to its arrival in the USA and describes how Boston architects including H. H. Richardson embraced its tenets within the 1870s and 1880s. She then turns to the next generation of designers, examining buildings by twelve of the region’s most prominent architects, eleven men and a woman, who assumed leadership roles within the Society of Arts and Crafts, founded in Boston in 1897. Among them are Ralph Adams Cram, Lois Lilley Howe, Charles Maginnis, and H. Langford Warren. They promoted designs according to historical precedent and the region’s heritage whilst encouraging well-executed ornament. Meister also discusses revered cultural personalities who influenced the architects, notably Ralph Waldo Emerson and art historian Charles Eliot Norton, in addition to contemporaries who shared their concerns, such as Louis Brandeis. Conservative though the architects were within the styles they favored, they also were forward-having a look, blending Arts and Crafts values with Progressive Era idealism. Open to new materials and building types, they made lasting contributions, with many of their designs now landmarks honored in cities and towns across New England.
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