Hill-Stead

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ISBN: 9781568987590
English edition
Princeton Architectural Press
Hardcover, 192 pages
21 x 25,4 cm
colour/black & white
May 2010
€34,00 (excl. VAT)

Hill-Stead

The Country Place of Theodate Pope Riddle

James F. O'Gorman, Edward S. Cooke Jr., Allyson M. Hayward, Anne Higonnet

The 33,000-square-foot Hill-Stead house was built for Alfred Pope, a wealthy Cleveland industrialist looking for an estate to house his world-class collection of French impressionist art. The house was designed by his daughter, Theodate, a self-trained architect at a time when women of her class were expected to focus on family and social status. In the spring of 1901, Alfred and Ada Pope moved into their "great new house on a hilltop". Today, it is maintained along with the grounds as a non-profit museum.

Hill-Stead is the first comprehensive monograph on this classic American home combining beautiful color photographs of the house’s architecture, art, and furnishings with the latest historical scholarship.