The architecture of William Nichols : building the antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi

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Label

The architecture of William Nichols : building the antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi

Title remainder

building the antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi

Statement of responsibility

Paul Hardin Kapp with Todd Sanders ; foreword by William Seale

Creator

• Kapp, Paul Hardin,

Contributor

• Sanders, Todd, (Joseph Todd,)

Author

• Sanders, Todd, (Joseph Todd,)
• Kapp, Paul Hardin,

Subject

• Architecture
• Architecture -- Southern States
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
• Nichols, William, approximately 1777-1853
• Nichols, William, approximately 1777-1853 -- Criticism and interpretation
• Southern States
• Southern States -- History -- 1775-1865
• 1775 - 1865
• ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / Monographs
• ARCHITECTURE / Regional

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"The Architecture of William Nichols is the first comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant yet over-looked architect in the American South. William Nichols designed three major university campuses--the University of North Carolina, the University of Alabama, and the University of Mississippi. He also designed the first state capitols of North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. Nichols's architecture profoundly influenced the built landscape of the South but due to fire, neglect, and demolition, much of his work was lost and history has nearly forgotten his tremendous legacy. In his research onsite and through archives in North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Paul Hardin Kapp has produced a narrative of the life and times of William Nichols that weaves together the elegant work of this architect with the aspirations and challenges of the antebellum South. It is richly illustrated with over two hundred archival photographs and drawings from the Historic American Building Survey"--

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Provided by publisher

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography