American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer.(Brief Article)

Interior Design, February, 2003 by Abercrombie, Stanley

By Michael C. Kathrens with a preface by Henry Hope Reed New York: Acanthus Press, $79 335 pages, 300 illustrations

Architect Horace Trumbauer is best known for the Philadelphia Museum of Art, a monumental aggregation of Greek temples, and Harvard University's Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library, an essay in French neoclassicism. He also designed Duke University's twin campuses, Gothic for men and Georgian for women. His equally historicizing and accomplished residential, work gets its first extensive study in American Splendor.

The Elms and Miramar in Newport, Rhode Island, the exquisite Duke family house that became New York University's Institute of Fine Arts, and 35 others appear in period duotone photographs and newly commissioned floor plans...

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