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  Dorothy Stroud   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Summerson joined the National Buildings Record in 1941, an initiative to document the buildings in London before the blitz destroyed them.
When Summerson was appointed curator of Sir John Soane's Museum in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1945, he hired Stroud as "inspectress," a position created in the original charter of the museum.
Her book on John Soane, a monograph Summerson himself was never able to write, appeared in 1986.
www.dictionaryofarthistorians.org /stroudd.htm   (484 words)

  
 Georgian London
Summerson examines the way in which building was conditioned by social, economic, and financial circumstances and discusses some of Britain’s most important buildings and their architects.
While Summerson’s text is essentially unchanged in this edition, it has been corrected in the light of new research, expanded to include a few significant buildings that were originally overlooked, and enhanced with new illustrations.
Sir John Summerson (1904–1992) was the curator of Sir John Soane’s Museum in London for almost forty years, simultaneously teaching the history of architecture at the Architectural Association in London and at Birkbeck College, University of London.
yalepress.yale.edu /YupBooks/book.asp?isbn=0300089880   (245 words)

  
 St John's Wood Society
John’s Wood was once part of the Great Forest of Middlesex.
A second, smaller estate, lying alongside the Edgware Road, had been acquired by John Lyon in 1574: the estate was later bequeathed by him to his foundation, Harrow School, on trust to maintain the roads between London and Harrow in good repair.
It was a unique pattern of development: as the renowned architectural historian, Sir John Summerson wrote: “It was the first part of London, and indeed of any other town, to abandon the terrace house for the semi-detached villa – a revolution of striking significance and far-reaching effect”.
www.stjohnswood.org.uk /sjw/index.html   (537 words)

  
 John Summerson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir John Newenham Summerson CH CBE (1904-1992) was one of the leading English architectural historians of the 20th century.
He wrote mainly about British architecture, especially that of the Georgian era.
He was curator of Sir John Soane's Museum from 1945-1984.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Summerson   (148 words)

  
 John Summerson Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
In this remarkable book, John Summerson interprets architecture as a reflection of the age in which it flowers, and traces the alternating themes of fantasy and functionalism as exemplified in various styles and in the works of a number of influential men including Wren, Viollet-le-Duc, Butterfield, and Le Corbusier.
The first half of the eighteenth century was pervaded by the spirit of the Baroque, epitomized most completely in palaces and churches: Schonbrunn in Vienna, the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, the dazzling theatrical churches and...
John Nash -- architect, town-planner, landscape designer, bridge-builder, engineer and entrepreneur -- was born in 1752 and died in 1835, outliving his principal patron, George IV, by five years.
www.alibris.com /search/books/author/John_Summerson   (521 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - John Nash (Architecture, Biography) - Encyclopedia
John Nash 1752–1835, English architect; pupil of Sir Robert Taylor.
He was one of the initiators of the neoclassic Regency style.
See studies by Sir John Summerson (2d ed.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/Nash-J.html   (223 words)

  
 Forthcoming Events |Summerson/Hitchcock
Preserving Architecture: John Summerson and the Heritage of the Victorian Age
John Summerson, Henry-Russell Hitchcock and Post-War Architectural Historiography
The Critical Legacy: John Summerson and the Post-War Foundations of Eighteenth-Century Studies
www.paul-mellon-centre.ac.uk /eventsf/summerson.html   (247 words)

  
 The Hout Family Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
John had four children; Edward Franis, John Augustine (Jennie Dininny), Catherine (John R. Summerson), Augustus Hout.
Catherine Hout (1853-1920) - Catherine married John C. DeCoursey / DeCourcey (found two different spellings from church records, census, death index, etc..) Children are: James Charles, Frank, Martin, Bertha, John, George, Chester, William, De?illo, Elnora.
From my finding I believe these are the only children Martin and Catherine had: Albert, Frank, Eva Marie, Catherine (William Henry Speath), Daisy (George S. Botsford), Leo, John W. A few days ago I was browsing the internet and came across an obit for a Eva Marie Hout Thornbrue.
www.hout.us /descendants.html   (903 words)

  
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I'm sure this is the right Lizzie Summerson as I must have been around 2 when she died, I of course never knew her but she gave me a Post Office Certificate when I was born and I just cashed it in a few years ago.
I'm afraid I'm not much help to you - I wonder if anyone looking at the site knows Jenny Summerson and where she lives, she's the one with the information you need no doubt.
Re: Re: Re: Summerson families and relatives of Wardley - Ron by Llyn Green · Jun 16, 06 - 12:31 PM Reply
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 Bibliography
John Soane and the birth of style, Oppositions 14, Fall 1978
‘Freemasonry and Sir John Soane’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 54:4, December 1995, pp.
Sir John Soane and the rebuilding of Pitszhanger Manor, Henry Russell Hitchcock Festscrift, New York, 19XX, pp.38-51
www.soane.org /bibliog.html   (2293 words)

  
 The New York Review of Books: Space Explorer
with contributions by Sir John Summerson, by David Watkin, by G.-Tilman Mellinghoff
John Soan was the son of a bricklayer, and may have worked as a bricklayer's assistant in his boyhood.
Pierre du Prey, in the book under review, describes his slow and painful metamorphosis into Sir John Soane, architect to the Bank of England and the doyen of his profession.
www.nybooks.com /articles/article-preview?article_id=5982   (321 words)

  
 Bibliography, classical architecture, traditional architecture,reference books, modernism, classicicism, architectural ...
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 American Architectural Foundation
Sir John Soane, R.A. was an English architect of significance influence during the last quarter of the 18th century and early 19th century.
“Just as Sir John Soane benefited from a traveling scholarship to Italy early in his career, we hope the study of his work in England will inspire a new generation of architects and design students,” said Ronald E Bogle, President and CEO of the American Architectural Foundation.
Last year’s fellowship award went to Bryan Boyer, an architecture student at Harvard Graduate School of Design, who researched an unpublished manuscript by Sir John Summerson to research the architectural details of the back of the Soane house.
www.archfoundation.org /aaf/aaf/News.27.htm   (492 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
You may find yourself at a loss for words if this is your first experience with architectural writing.
The latter is also available on-line--ask how to use it, because it is much more comprehensive when it comes to architecture than the on-line "Wilson Index," which includes only the electronic version of the painting-oriented Art Index.
The standard Pelican-series volumes for this period are Summerson's Architecture in Britain, which you know, and Henry-Russell Hitchcock's Architecture: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (3d ed., Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968.
www.arthistory.upenn.edu /syllabi/281.html   (898 words)

  
 Amazon.co.uk: John Nash: A Complete Catalogue: Books: Michael Mansbridge (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
This reference work catalogues and illustrates all the known and attributed works and design of John Nash.
Altogether, Nash was responsible for some 230 projects, and these are all illustrated, either by the author's own photographs or, in the case of demolished buildings, by contemporary views and technical drawings.
The Regency Country House: From the Archives of "Country Life" by John Martin Robinson
www.amazon.co.uk.cob-web.org:8888 /John-Nash-Catalogue-Michael-Mansbridge/dp/0714826782   (380 words)

  
 CliffsNotes::Bleak House:Book Summary and Study Guide
In fact, we learn considerably less about this individual in his concreteness than we do about Esther Summerson.
And since he is even more purely, or at least more maturely, good than Esther is, we find ourselves nagged by another question: Can any human being be as faultless, as sensible, capable, self-controlled, and completely benevolent as John Jarndyce?
Perhaps he is not quite flawless, not completely godlike; he does, once in a great while, make a slight mistake, and sometimes he becomes worried or upset ("the wind is from the east").
www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-40,pageNum-135.html   (359 words)

  
 Find in a Library: John Nash, architect to King George IV
John Nash, architect to King George IV by John Newenham Summerson, Sir
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www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/oclc/355088   (80 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Classical Language of Architecture: Books: John Summerson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Based on Summerson's radio lectures, this book has itself reached the status of being a classic!
I was introduced to this classic work in a course on Michelangelo by John Shearman at Harvard, and I'm writing this review because I'm convinced this book deserves wider distribution.
It's essentially an illustrated compilation of a series of lectures Summerson gave at university in England.
www.amazon.com /Classical-Language-Architecture-John-Summerson/dp/0262690128   (1279 words)

  
 A Regency Bookshelf   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
John Nash and Regency Architecture : A Selected Bibliography (Architecture Series--Bibliography, No 1279); Bibliographic Research Library Staff; Paperback (Out of Print)
Georgian London; John Summerson; Hardcover (Out of Print)
What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew : From Fox Hunting to Whist-The Facts of Daily Life in Nineteenth-Century Enland; Daniel Pool; Paperback.
mandala.net /regency/non-fict.htm   (1143 words)

  
 Suggested Reading
The Latest Country Houses, John Martin Robinson, 1984 The Bodley Head Ltd.
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Copyright 2006 by John Henry Design International, Inc. All rights reserved.
www.johnhenryarchitect.com /suggested_reading.htm   (1192 words)

  
 Arch 170B Selected Bibliography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
John Summerson, The Classical Language of Architecture [1966]
John Summerson, The Architecture of the Eighteenth Century [1986]
John Scott, Architecture for the Shroud: Relic and Ritual in Turin [2003]
www.arch.ced.berkeley.edu /courses/arch170/SP2006/bibliography.html   (3400 words)

  
 Engineering & Technology / Architecture , Engineering &Technology / Georgian London by John Summerson
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Soane, Sir John (Architectural Monographs) John Summerson ISBN: 0856708305
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 Heavenly Mansions and Other Essays on Architecture [Reprint] (Paperback) by John Summerson (Author) on Riffs.com   ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Heavenly Mansions and Other Essays on Architecture [Reprint] (Paperback) by John Summerson (Author) on Riffs.com :: Books :: Items :: Ratings and Reviews (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)
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Publisher's Note: Brilliantly written essays on the aesthetic principles and enduring motives of architecture.
www.riffs.com.cob-web.org:8888 /books/5491445/details   (421 words)

  
 Arch Fam Med -- Topic Collections : Hypertension
Mark A. Espeland; Paul K. Whelton; John B. Kostis; Judy L. Bahnson; Walter H. Ettinger; Jeffrey A. Cutler; Larry J. Appel; Shiriki Kumanyika; Deborah Farmer; Jan Elam; Alan C. Wilson; William B. Applegate; for the TONE Cooperative Research Group
Hyperinsulinemia in Hypertension: Associations With Race, Abdominal Obesity, and Hyperlipidemia
John G. Spangler; Ronny A. Bell; John H. Summerson; Joseph C. Konen
archfami.ama-assn.org /cgi/collection/hypertension   (105 words)

  
 YUL Course Reserve   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
NA31 +S96 1971 CCL HR24 (1) CLASSICAL LANGUAGE OF ARCHITECTURE : SUMMERSON, JOHN NEWENHAM
NA31 S96 1964 CCL HR24 (1) CLASSICAL LANGUAGE OF ARCHITECTURE : SUMMERSON, JOHN NEWENHAM
NA31 S96 1980 (LC) ART OR (1) CLASSICAL LANGUAGE OF ARCHITECTURE : SUMMERSON, JOHN NEWENHAM
www.library.yale.edu /CourseResv/public_html/1025.HTM   (230 words)

  
 The Wait Brothers Home Page (Every thing you ever wanted to know...probably more)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
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The winner(s?) will receive something really good, although I don't know what yet.
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