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  • Relevant Organizations
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Relevant Organizations

  • Stately American Architecture

  • Biltmore Estate
  • The Richard H. Driehaus Museum
  • Filoli
  • The Frick Collection
  • Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens
  • Historic Hudson Valley
  • The Huntington
  • Lynnewood Hall
  • Nemours Mansion and Gardens
  • Newport Restoration Foundation
  • The Preservation Society of Newport County
  • Shangri La
  • Vizcaya Museum & Gardens
  • Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library

  • Stately European & Russian Architecture

  • Alexander Palace
  • American Friends of Blerancourt
  • Catherine Palace
  • Château de Champ de Bataille
  • Château de Versailles
  • Château du Marais
  • Château Menetou-Salon
  • Dumfries House
  • Musée Nissim de Camondo
  • Peterhof
  • Royal French Châteaus
  • Royal Oak Foundation
  • The State Hermitage Museum
  • Waddesdon Manor
  • Wentworth Woodhouse

  • Landscape

  • American Association of Landscape Architects
  • California Garden & Landscape History Society
  • California Horticultural Society
  • Garden Clubs of America
  • The Garden Conservancy
  • Northwest Horticultural Society
  • Pacific Horticulture
  • San Francisco Botanical Garden
  • Southern California Horticultural Society
  • Western Horticultural Society

  • Preservation

  • California Preservation Foundation
  • California State Parks Office of Historic Preservation
  • Historic Pullman Foundation
  • Les Vielles Maisons Française
  • National Trust for Historic Preservation
  • Real Finishes, blog by Patrick Webb
  • San Francisco Heritage
  • Save Venice
  • University of Miami

  • Architectural History

  • Society of Architectural Historians, Northern California Chapter
  • US Library of Congress Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey
  • University of Virginia
  • Victorian Society in America
  • UC Berkeley Environmental Design Archives

  • Historical Societies

  • San Mateo County Historical Association
  • California Historical Society
  • Chicago Historical Society
  • French Heritage Society
  • California Heritage Council

  • Classical Architecture Education

  • Beaux-Arts Atelier
  • Institute of Classical Architecture & Art
  • Notre Dame School of Architecture
  • Real Finishes, A Traditional Architecture Glossary
  • University of Miami School of Architecture

Further Reading

Carolands

  • Carolands, Michael Middleton Dwyer, ISBN 0-9785259-0-6
  • California Splendor, Kathryn Masson, ISBN 978-0-8478-3965-0
  • Gardens Private & Personal, Nancy D’Oench, Bonny Martin, ISBN 0810972808
  • The Houses Of The San Francisco Peninsula Area, Ward Hill
  • Mario Buatta: Fifty Years of American Interior Decoration, Emily Evans Eerdmans, Mario Buatta, Paige Rense, ISBN 0847840727
  • Architectural Digest: Romancing History, Therese Bissell
  • Deck The Halls, Ann Seymour
  • SFGate: “The House On The Hill”, Judy Richter, S.F. Chronicle

Stately American Architecture & Landscape

  • The American Heritage History of Notable American Houses, Marshall B. Davidson
  • American Splendor: The Residential Architecture of Horace Trumbauer, Michael C. Kathrens, Richard C. Marchand, Eleanor Weller
  • The Architecture of Richard Morris Hunt, Susan R. Stein (Editor)
  • A Backward Glance, Edith Wharton
  • Biltmore Estate: The Most Distinguished Private Place, John M. Bryan
  • The Colonial Revival House, Richard Guy Wilson
  • Design on the Land: The Development of Landscape Architecture, Norman T. Newton
  • Edith Wharton at Home: Life at the Mount, Richard Guy Wilson
  • Gardens for a Beautiful America, 1895-1935, Sam Watters
  • Gilded Mansions: Grand Architecture and High Society, Wayne Craven
  • More Great American Mansions: and Their Stories, Merrill Folsom
  • Great Houses of Chicago 1871 – 1921, Susan Benjamin, Stuart Cohen
  • Harbor Hill: Portrait of a House, Richard Guy Wilson
  • Hearst Castle: The Biography of a Country House, Victoria Kastner
  • The Henry Clay Frick Houses: Architecture, Interiors, Landscapes in the Golden Era, Martha Frick Symington Sanger
  • The Houses of McKim, Mead & White, Samuel G. White
  • Julia Morgan Architect, Sara Holmes Boutelle
  • The Twilight of Splender: Chronicles of the Age of American Palaces, James T. Maher
  • McKim, Mead and White, Richard Guy Wilson
  • Millionaires, Mansions, and Motor Yachts: An Era of Opulence, Ross MacTaggart
  • Mr. Vanderbilt’s House and Collection, Edward Strahan
  • North Shore Chicago: Houses of the Lakefront Suburbs 1890 – 1940, Stuart Cohen, Susan Benjamin
  • Newport Mansions: The Gilded Age, Richard Cheek, Thomas Gannon
  • Newport Villas: The Revival Styles 1885 – 1935, Michael C. Kathrens
  • Of Houses & Time: Personal Histories of America’s National Trust Properties, William Seale
  • This House Was The Pride of The Town: Mr. Nickerson’s Marble Palace Becomes Mr. Driehaus’ Museum, M. Kirby Talley, Jr.
  • The Twilight of Splendor: Chronicles of the Age of the American Palaces, James T. Maher
  • Vizcaya: An American Villa and Its Makers, Witold Rybczynski, Laurie Olin, Steven Brooke

Stately European And Russian Architecture & Landscape

  • André Le Nôtre in Perspective, Patricia Bouchenot-Déchin, Georges Farhat
  • The Château Of Louis XIV, Andrew Zega, Bernd H. Dams, ISBN 0-8478-2473-X
  • Dream Palaces: The Last Royal Courts of Europe, Marc Walter, Jérôme Coignard
  • England’s Lost Houses: From the Archives of Country Life, Giles Worsley
  • The French Garden, Jean-Pierre Babelon, Mic Chamblas-Ploton, ISBN 0-86565-216-3
  • Palaces Of The Sun King: Versailles, Trianon, Marly: The Châteaux of Louis XIV, Bernd Dams, Andrew Zega, Vicomte De Rohan
  • Palaces That Changed the World, Klaus Reichold
  • Le Palais Parisiens de la Belle Époque, Gérard Rousset-Charny
  • Les Pavillons: French Pavillons of the Eighteenth Century, Jerome Zerbe, Cyril Connolly
  • Royal Style: Five Centuries Of Influence And Fashion, Stephen Calloway, Stephen Jones
  • Royal Places Of France, Ian Dunlop, ISBN 0-393-02222-6.
  • The Winter Palace Saint Petersburg, Mikhail Borisovich Piotrovsky

Preservation

  • The Destruction of the Country House, 1875 – 1974, Roy Strong
  • Historical and Philosophical Issues in the Conservation of Cultural Heritage, Stanley Price, Nicholas, M. Kirby Talley, Jr., Alessandra Melucco Vaccaro

Interiors

  • The Creation of the Rococo Decorative Style, Sidney Fiske Kimball
  • The Decoration of Houses, New York, Edith Wharton, Ogden Codman, Jr.
  • The French Interior in the Eighteenth Century, John Whitehead
  • Herter Brothers: Furniture and Interiors for a Gilded Age, Katherine S. Howe
  • House Proud: Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Interiors from the Thaw Collection, Gail Davidson, Floramae McCarron-Cates, Charlotte Gere
  • Nineteenth-Century Decoration: The Art of the Interior, Charlotte Gere

Related Topics

  • Learn More About PPIE

  • San Francisco’s Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 Laura A. Ackley Link
  • Pan Pacific International Exposition Centennial
  • Pan Pacific International Exposition
  • Library of Congress
  • Maybeck Foundation
  • Wikipedia article on PPIE
  • San Francisco Invites the World: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 Donna Ewald and Peter Clute
  • The Story of the Exposition: Being the Official History of the International Celebration Held at San Francisco in 1915 to Commemorate the Discovery of the Pacific Ocean and the Construction of the Panama Canal, Frank Morton Todd Link
  • Problems Women Solved: Being the Story of the Woman Board of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. What Vision, Enthusiasm, Work and Co-operation Accomplished, Anna Pratt Simpson Link

  • Learn More About Duchêne

  • Achille Duchêne
  • Blenheim Palace & Gardens
  • Château d’Anjou
  • Château de Balleroy
  • Château de Breteuil
  • Château de Champs
  • Château de Courances
  • Château Vaux-le-Vicomte
  • Comité des Parcs et Jardins de France
  • Inventing the Garden, Matteo Vercelloni, Virgilio Vercelloni
  • Le Style Duchêne: Henri & Achilles Duchêne, Architectes paysagistes, 1841-1947, Claire Frange, Henri Duchêne

  • Learn More About Period Rooms

  • Bordeaux Room, Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • California Palace of the Legion of Honor (Salon Doré from Hôtel de La Trémoille)
  • Corcoran Gallery of Art (Salon Doré Hôtel de Clermont)
  • J. Paul Getty Museum
  • Louvre Decorative Arts Galleries
  • Victor Louis
  • Bordeaux – Léon Deshairs
  • Period Rooms In The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Amelia Peck, James Parker, William Rieder, Olga Raggio, Mary B. Shepard, Annie-Christine Daskalakis Mathews, Daniëlle O. Kisluk-Grosheide, Wolfram Koeppe, Joan R. Mertens, Alfreda Murck, Wen C. Fong
  • French Period Rooms 1650-1800: Rebuilt in England, France, and the Americas, Bruno Pons, ISBN 10: 2878440153 / ISBN 13: 9782878440157

  • Learn More About Sanson

  • Ernest Sanson
  • Evita Fine Arts Museum
  • Palais Rose
  • Perry Belmont House
  • Château Menetou-Salon
  • Les Palais Parisiens de la Belle Époque, Gérard Rousset-Charny, ISBN 0-316-12509-1
Contact

Carolands Foundation
Mavie Mendelson, Executive Director
565 Remillard Drive
Hillsborough, CA 94010
(650) 343-0613
mavie.mendelson@carolands.org

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Credits

photography by Mick Hales, David Glomb, Stefen Turner, Jack Hutcheson
interiors by Mario Buatta
contemporary landscape design by Martin Lane Fox FRICS VMH
Holiday décor by Image Three, Inc.
special thanks to our docents for their valuable contribution: Paul Price, Allen Deering, and Tom Larsen
site by: Dyad