Carpenter Gothic Architecture in the United States - Carpenter Gothic Churches in the United States, Andrew Jackscarpenter Gothic Churches in the United States, Andrew Jackson Downing on Downing (Paperback)

Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Carpenter Gothic Churches in the United States, Andrew Jackson Downing, Pioneer Gothic Church, Roseland Cottage, Grace Episcopal Church (Georgetown, Colorado), Episcopal Burying Ground and Chapel (Lexington, Kentucky), Bethany Memorial Chapel, Holy Fellowship Episcopal Church (Greenwood, South Dakota), St. Luke's Church (Blue Ridge, Georgia), Holy Trinity Church (Juneau, Alaska), Episcopal Church of the Advent / St. John's Chapel, Christ Episcopal Church (South Pittsburg, Tennessee), St. Paul's Episcopal Church (Virginia City, Nevada), Church of Our Most Merciful Saviour, Chapel of the Centurion, Harmony School, School District No. 53. Excerpt: Andrew Jackson Downing (October 31, 1815 July 28, 1852) was an American landscape designer, horticulturalist, and writer, a prominent advocate of the Gothic Revival style in the United States, and editor of The Horticulturist magazine (184652). Downing was born in Newburgh, New York, United States, to Samuel Downing (a nurseryman and wheelwright) and Becky Crandall. After finishing his schooling at 16, he worked in his father's nursery in the Town of Newburgh, and gradually became interested in landscape gardening and architecture. He began writing on botany and landscape gardening and then undertook to educate himself thoroughly in these subjects. His official writing career started when he began writing articles for various newspapers and horticultural journals in the 1830s. In 1841 his first book, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening, Adapted to North America, was published to a great success; it was the first book of its kind published in the United States. In 1842 Downing collaborated with Alexander Jackson Davis on the book Cottage Residences, a highly influential patter... More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1403885