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Great
American Mansions
Revised
Edition
Merrill
Folsom $32.00, tp
ISBN 0-8038-9417-1
336 pages, 7 1/4 x
9 3/4
150 Color photos,
100
B&W photos
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* Over
100,000 copies sold
* The
First Full-Scale Source to Great American Homes Ever Published
"An
easy reading, informative and anecdotal guide..." - The
New York Times
Hastings House has been publishing Great American Mansions since 1963. Thousands of people have since been fascinated with this lavishly illustrated book of how and why some of America's greatest mansions happened to be built and who has lived in them. Its pages are filled with stories of dramatic, amusing and tragic events that have taken place within the walls of the most elegant of American homes - from Biltmore, in North Carolina, to Turnblad's Chateau in Minnesota, to Florida's famed Vizcaya. In them are presented the domestic aspirations and the architectural ideals of such diverse personalities as Frank Lloyd Wright, William Randolph Hearst, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Lees, the Vanderbilts, and many more. Great
American Mansions, revised edition, will contain much
of the material from the popular first edition as well as
newly revised material from Folsom's lesser known work, More
Great American Mansions (1967), and five new additions.
Over 150 color photos and 100 new black and white photos
are included. Generous and eye-pleasing, this book will provide
an indispensable guide for sight-seeing tourists and a tempting
treasury for armchair travelers.
Merrill Folsom was a former reporter for the New York Times. The author of Great American Mansions (1963) and More Great American Mansions (1967), he is now deceased.
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