| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 100.2

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Architecture in the United States, 1800–1850

By W. Barksdale Maynard

(New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xi, 322. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00.)

This book is not the comprehensive survey that its title and appearance suggest. Instead, it is a narrowly focused and often convincing argument for the predominant role of British precedent in giving form to the domestic architecture of the cities, suburbs, and well-settled riversides of the lands fronting the Atlantic Ocean. Its few and brief comments about many of architectural history's meat-and-potato topics for the period—churches, Gothic Revival style, familiar architects, development of landscape design, recent discoveries and interpretations of canonic buildings, forms of urban expansion and new town foundations, etc.—serve only to illustrate the author's principal argument. Indiana (with only 45,000 of its 1850 population of just under a million living in urban areas and barely 4,000 people in its two largest cities of Indianapolis and New Albany), like other trans-Appalachian lands, escapes notice.

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