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Houses of the Founding Fathers
By Hugh Howard; Photographs by Roger Straus III
Hardback
, 354 pages
ISBN: 9781579652753 (1579652751)
Published by Artisan
$50.00(US)
$65.00(CAN)
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about Houses of the Founding Fathers
When they declared independence in Philadelphia in 1776, they changed the course of Western history. But the patriots—landowners, merchants, and professional men who hailed from towns, cities, and plantations scattered along the eastern seaboard—had private lives too, quite apart from the public deeds we know so well. In this breathtaking volume, historian Hugh Howard and photographer Roger Straus examine the everyday lives of the Founding Fathers.
Houses of the Founding Fathers takes us on an eye-opening tour of forty stately eighteenth-century houses. We see the mansions of such legendary figures as Jefferson, Washington, Adams, and Hamilton, along with the homes of many other signers of the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution. At sites from Maine to Georgia, with stops in each of the thirteen colonies, the grand story of the Revolution emerges from unique and individual domestic perspectives.
Houses overlooking the sea, in busy townscapes, or atop mountains reveal these patriots’ tastes in architecture, furniture, and horticulture. There are tales of friends and enemies, murderous relatives, reluctant revolutionaries, adoring wives, and runaway servants. The founding families are brought to life in the rituals of birth and death, the food they ate, the archaic medical practices they endured, their household arrangements, and the way their slaves lived.
Houses of the Founding Fathers offers a penetrating look at the private lives of the men whose ideas ignited an insurrection against England—and who helped create the modern world.
about Hugh Howard
Hugh Howard has spent much of the last twenty years pursuing his passion for historic architecture. He is the author of nine books in the field, including the recent Dr. Kimball and Mr. Jefferson: Rediscovering the Founding Fathers of American Architecture. He has also worked as a writer and researcher for the A&E series In Search of Palladio. He lives in East Chatham, New York, with his wife and two daughters.
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about Roger Straus III
Roger Straus III spent thirty years working in book publishing before leaving to devote himself full-time to photography. His work has been featured in six books, including US I: America’s Original Main Street, Mississippi Currents, Modernism Reborn, and Wright for Wright. Straus’s photographs have also appeared in newspapers and magazines such as The Washington Post and Architectural Digest. He lives in City Island, New York.
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