Awards
- Commended for IndieFab awards (Home/Garden) 2010
- Winner of Midwest Book Award (MIPA) (Total Book Design) 2010
Overview
Take an intimate journey through the family, history, and architecture of 20 residential treasures in Wisconsin's Own by M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman. Richly illustrated with the photography of Zane Williams and complemented by historical images and watercolors and line drawings, Wisconsin's Own profiles the architectural history of state's most remarkable residences built between 1854 and 1939. The houses are a mix of public and private homes that are representative of varied architectural styles, from an Italianate along the Mississippi River and an interpretation of a sixteenth-century northern Italian villa overlooking Lake Michigan to an Adirondack-style camp in the North Woods and a fourteen-bedroom Georgian Revival mansion on Lake Geneva. Frank Lloyd Wright's Prairie School is, of course, represented as well with examples by Wright and his mentor Louis Sullivan. Wisconsin's Own tells the story of the considerable contribution that each of these historic homes have made to American residential architecture. It also answers the questions who built the house, what brought them to Wisconsin, why they selected that particular style, and how it is that this historic home still stands--and shines--today.
Full Product Details
Author: M Caren Connolly ,
Louis Wasserman ,
Zane Williams ,
Ellsworth H Brown
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Imprint: Wisconsin Historical Society Press
Dimensions:
Width: 28.40cm
, Height: 3.00cm
, Length: 26.10cm
Weight: 2.091kg
ISBN: 9780870204524
ISBN 10: 0870204521
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 07 September 2010
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
“A richly detailed, generously illustrated study of historic, opulent Wisconsin homes. This is not a pretty coffee-table book. With its clear, intelligent essays and color photography, it is the hardbound equivalent of a freindly and knowing docent walk through theses manses.” <br> --Jim Higgins"Milwaukee Journal Sentinel" (09/11/2010)
<p> In a very real sense, history is just stories about people. This marvelous book uses stories about people--where they came from, what they believed in, what they dreamed of, and especially what kind of homes they built--to present a compelling history of a special part of America. From a quirky octagon of the 1850s to an Art Moderne marvel of the 1930s, the houses on these pages remind us of the richness of Wisconsin's heritage--and the importance of keeping it intact and alive. (Richard Moe, President, National Trust for Historic Preservation) Wisconsin's Own: Twenty Remarkable Homes is so visually and intellectually stunning that you can forget the iPad or Kindle. You'll want to hold this exhaustively researched book in your hands. It's easy to lose hours savoring the photos, detailed historic images and informative text. Many people think the state's architectural legacy begins and ends with Frank Lloyd Wright. Milwaukee architects-cum-authors M. Caren Connolly and Louis Was
Author Information
M. Caren Connolly and Louis Wasserman have collaborated in their Milwaukee architectural practice for more than twenty years. Wisconsin's Own is their fourth joint book on residential architecture. Zane Williams has been a professional location photographer for four decades, with wide-ranging assignments both abroad and in his home state of Wisconsin.
