Prodigy Houses of Virginia

Prodigy Houses of Virginia

Architecture and the Native Elite

by Barbara Burlison Mooney

366 pages· 2008· ISBN 9780813926735
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Introduction : "An art which shews so much" Defining the prodigy house : architectural aesthetics and the colonial dialect "Blind stupid fortune" : profiling the architectural patron "Reason reascends her throne" : the impact of dowry "Each rascal will be a director" : architectural patrons and the building process Learning to become "good mechanics in building" Epistemologies of female space : early Tidewater mansions Political power and the limits of genteel architecture

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