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Elizabeth Collins Cromley Elizabeth Cromley bibliography Evers Alf Elizabeth Cromley Betsy Blackmar and Neil Harris Resorts of the Catskills New York NY St Martins Press 1979 ID: 161625

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Modernizing: Or, “You Never See a Screen Door on Affluent Homes”

Elizabeth Collins

CromleySlide2

Elizabeth

Cromley

bibliography

Evers, Alf, Elizabeth

Cromley

, Betsy

Blackmar

, and Neil Harris.

Resorts of the Catskills

. New York, NY: St. Martins Press, 1979.

Blackmar

, Betsy, and Elizabeth

Cromley

. "On the Verandah: Resorts of the Catskills."

Nineteenth Century

8, Nos. 1/2 (1982).

Cromley

, Elizabeth Collins. "Modernizing: Or, 'You Never See a Screen Door on Affluent Homes'."

Journal of American Culture

5, No. 2 (1982): 71-79

.

Cromley

, Elizabeth Collins. "The Development of the New York Apartment, 1860-1905."

Ph.d.

Dissertation, City University of New York, 1982.

Cromley

, Elizabeth. "Riverside Park and Issues of Historic Preservation."

Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

43 (1984): 238-249.

Cromley

, Elizabeth Collins. "Public History and the Historic Preservation District."

Past Meets Present: Essays About History Interpretation and Public Audiences

. Jo

Blatti

, ed. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1987.

Cromley

, Elizabeth. "Apartments and Collective Life in Nineteenth-Century New York." In

New Households, New Housing

. Karen A. Franck and Sherry

Ahrentzen

, eds. New York, NY: Van

Nostrand

Reinhold, 1989.

Cromley

, Elizabeth Collins.

Alone Together: A History of New York's Early Apartments

. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990.

Calloway, Stephen and Elizabeth

Cromley

, eds.

The Elements of Style: A Practical Encyclopedia of Interior Architectural Details from 1485 to the Present

. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1991.

Cromley

, Elizabeth Collins. "A History of American Beds and Bedrooms."

Perspectives in Vernacular Architecture

, IV. Thomas Carter and Bernard L. Herman, eds. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press for the Vernacular Architecture Forum, 1991. Pp. 177-186.

Cromley

, Elizabeth Collins. "A History of American Beds and Bedrooms, 1890-1930."

American Home Life, 1880-1930: A Social History of Spaces and Services

. Jessica Foy and Thomas J.

Schlereth

, eds. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. Pp. 120-141.

Cromley

, Elizabeth. "Masculine/Indian."

Winterthur Portfolio

31, No. 4 (Winter, 1996): 256-280.

Cromley

, Elizabeth C. "Transforming the Food Axis: Houses, Tools, Modes of Analysis."

Material History Review/Revue

d'historie

de la culture

matérielle

44 (Fall, 1996): 8-22.

Carter, Thomas and Elizabeth Collins

Cromley

.

Invitation to Vernacular Architecture: A Guide to the Study of Ordinary Buildings and Landscapes

. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005. Slide3

Elizabeth Collins

Cromley

is a Professor of Architecture at Northeastern University in Boston, MASlide4

Goals of article

Art History looks at renovations.

Clashing and full of anomalies

But eye-catching, intriguing, and full of vitality if allowed to speak on their own terms.

What’s

my interest?

What have people done

What have they preserved

Read

“popular aesthetics.”

Design PrinciplesSlide5

Conclusion

Architecture is important to people for what it says about them and their relationship to larger world.

Urban

housing is easily changed

Manifests

attitude it is good to be different

Double desire: Different and part of a group.

Self-assertive and self-effacing

Limited

, yet flexible vocabularySlide6
Slide7

Trends

Brighter color.

Juxtaposing colors

Harmony is replaced by staccato

Portable

ornaments

Symbols of the past

Outbreaks (imitation)Slide8

Architectural features make reference to past styles and the museum collection of materialsSlide9

Vernacular

De-construction

Traditional relationships among historic shapes and materials have been dismantled.

Syntactic

freedom of juxtaposing elements

Unstated

is the lack of alternatives to source—mass production is the sole source.Slide10
Slide11

Dispensable

Facade is

maleable

, but overall dimensions are fixed.

Windows

are changed

Porches

are dispensable.

Gardens

and yards

Uniformity

of texture and color is dispensableSlide12
Slide13
Slide14

Most Striking changes

Materials

All imitative of natural materials.

Asphalt

Aluminum

Plastic

Appearance of labor-intensive materials

Synthetic

and imitative materials have a long history (who cares? Art Historians)Slide15
Slide16

What is modernizing?

Modern as convenience not form

Houses

reject modernist aesthetic for domestic use.

Owners have little experience articulating aesthetic. (use of interviews)

Clean

Neat

Different

“In keeping”Slide17
Slide18

Renovation

Necessary to maintain the building

Often

done by contractors (not owners)

Imitation

is a form of flattery.