The Architecture of John Russell Pope

John Russell Pope (1874–1937) is one of the United States’ most famous architects, responsible for numerous major projects, including the Jefferson Memorial, the House of the Temple and the West Wing of the National Gallery of Art.

This book is the first volume of a two-part monograph, to be followed by a volume devoted to public buildings. Richly illustrated, it presents Pope’s residential designs—often inspired by classical European architecture—built in many of the most prestigious neighbourhoods in the United States. It includes plans and sketches by Pope, originally published in the 1920s, alongside period photographs, thus offering a comprehensive and visually striking overview of the work of a true titan of American architecture.

Among the houses featured are: the Ogden Mills residence in Woodbury, Long Island; Glen Manor House, owned by Moses and Edith Taylor, in Portsmouth, Rhode Island; Charlcote House, built for James Swan Frick in the suburbs of Baltimore; the now-demolished Oak Hill Manor in Jericho, Long Island; and the Brodhead-Bell-Morton Mansion (also known as the Morton House) in the upmarket Logan Circle neighbourhood of Washington DC.