Buildings of Delaware

"Buildings Of Delaware should prove to be an indispensable reference book. The book's value lies in its excellent maps, historic and modern illustrations, logical organization, and extensive research into the construction dates and architects. It's not just interesting reading but also the best guide to those who want to tour Delaware since the 1938 Federal Writers' Project Guide to Delaware."---Wilmington News Journal

Buildings of the United States is a series of books on American architecture compiled and written on a state-by-state basis. The primary objective of the series is to identify and celebrate the rich cultural, economic, and geographical diversity of the United States as it is reflected in the architecture of each state. The series has been commissioned by the Society of Architectural Historians, an organization dedicated to the study, interpretation, and preservation of the built environment throughout the world.

The latest volume in the Society of Architectural Historians' prestigious Buildings of the United States series, Buildings of Delaware is the first book to document the state's architectural history from all periods. Extensively illustrated with photographs and maps, and supplemented by a glossary and bibliography, the volume covers buildings of many styles, types, and materials, from grand mansions to vernacular structures, and from urban to rural settings. The noted architectural historian W. Barksdale Maynard spent several years canvassing the rich cultural heritage of the state and investigating its relationship to the built environment---from an ancient Dutch dike of 1660 to a cutting-edge cable-stay bridge recently completed, from colonial smokehouses in the countryside of Kent County to a rare, intact, International Style 1940s elementary school in the city of Wilmington. Among the architectural forms discussed are industrial and agricultural buildings and structures that characterize the state's rivers, canals, and shoreline, from gristmills to bridges and lighthouses. Major cities such as Newark and Wilmington are considered at length, with entries on homes, churches, schools, and government buildings, and the state's natural landscape, parks, and such renowned gardens as Winterthur are also described. Buildings of Delaware will provide scholars with valuable information on the architecture of the state, and will spark the imagination of general readers and local historians as well. More

W. Barksdale Maynard, Lecturer in the School of Architecture at Princeton University, is the author of Walden Pond: A History; Architecture in the United States, 1800-1850; and Woodrow Wilson: Princeton to the Presidency.