[128]. An influential publication of this period was Hopkins, J., Essay on Gothic Architecture, Burlington, 1836. Bishop Hopkins himself designed and built several churches of the rather feeble Gothick order of the plates in this book.
[129]. See Upjohn, R., Upjohn’s Rural Architecture, New York, 1852.
[130]. See Wills, F., Ancient English Ecclesiastical Architecture ..., New York, 1850, which includes designs for new churches. Similar is Hart, J., Designs for Parish Churches in the Three Styles of English Church Architecture, New York, 1857.
[131]. Downing’s major work, A Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening adapted to North America, New York and London, 1841, with later editions to 1879 (and twentieth-century reprints), devotes only a chapter to house design. His really influential architectural books were Cottage Residences, New York, 1842, with later editions to 1887, and The Architecture of Country Houses, New York, 1850, with later editions to 1866.
[132]. See Scully, V. J., ‘Romantic Rationalism and the Expression of Structure in Wood: Downing, Wheeler, Gardner and the “Stick Style”, 1840-1876’, Art Bulletin, XXXV (1953), 121-42.
[133]. See Robinson, P. F., Rural Architecture, London, 1822, with later editions to 1836, and also his Designs for Ornamental Villas, London, 1827, again with later editions to 1836.
[134]. The handsomest and one of the most authoritative mid-century books on chalets was by Graffenried and Sturler, Architecture suisse, Berne, 1844.
[135]. See Vaux, C., Villas and Cottages, New York, 1857, with later editions to 1874.
[136]. See Lancaster, C., ‘Oriental Forms in American Architecture’, Art Bulletin, XXIX (1947), 183-93. For other work of Samuel Sloan, a very productive mid-century architect and architectural writer, see Coolidge, H. N., ‘A Sloan Checklist, 1849-1884’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, XIX (1960), 34-8.
[137]. See Owen, R. D., Hints on Public Architecture, New York, 1849.