Book Awards Home

Hitchcock Award
Emery Award
Fischelis Award
All

Featured
Book Awards 2007
Book Awards 2006
Book Awards 2004

 

 

 


THE RUTH EMERY AWARD

Named to honor one of the founders of the Society instrumental in forming The Society's London Summer School, must deal with a regional topic.

2007 Winner-Temple of Invention: History of A National Landmark
by Charles J. Robertson

For providing social, cultural and political context to a national landmark, this book is an elegant model of the architectural monograph.
 

Temple of Invention: History of a National Landmark

2006 Winner-A Brass Menagerie: Metalwork of the Aesthetic Movement
by Anna Tobin D’Ambrosio

With its elegant presentation of a dazzling assemblage of American decorative metalwork, this catalog will doubtless serve as a reference on its topic for years to come.
 

Error

2005 Winner-Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours
by
Edward W. Gordon (Foreword), Mary Melvin Petronella (Editor)

For
its innovative approach, distinguished assemblage of authors, clever design and generous illustrations, offering a fresh update on the walking-tour genre.

Victorian Boston Today: Twelve Walking Tours

2004 Winner--Separate Sphere: Dressmakers in Cincinnati's Golden Age, 1877-1922
by Cynthia Amneus, Marla R. Miller, Anne Bissonnette and Shirley  Teresa Wajda
                  

For a beautifully photographed, thoroughly researched and compellingly written book, innovative in its integrated approach, that presents the oft-neglected products of women artisans as a subject worthy of careful consideration.
 

2003 Winner--The Early Louis Sullivan Building Photographs
by Crombie Taylor and Jeffrey Plank

A boldly conceived and beautifully designed book which makes it possible to see Americas first modern architect as he wished to seen.  The book was published in 2002 by William Stout Publishers, San Francisco.
 

The Early Louis Sullivan Building Photographs

2002 Winner--Robert Mills: America's First Architect
by John M. Bryan

 

2001 Winner--Marie Adrien Persac: Louisiana Artist

by H.P. Bacot, B.S. Bacot, S.K. Reeves, J. Magill, and J.J. Lawrence

 

2000 Winner--Masterpieces of American Furniture

from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute

 

1999 Winner--Architecture in Fredonia, NY 1811-1997

by Daniel Reiff

 

Error

1998 Winner--Inside the Bungalow: America's Arts & Crafts Interior
by Paul Duchscherer, author, and Douglas Keister, photographer

 

1997 Winner--Rise of the New York Skyscraper, 1865-1913
by Sarah B. Landau and Carl Condit

 

1996 Winner--Meija Revisited:  The Sites of Victorian Japan

by Dallas Finn

 

1995 Winner--Eakins and the Photograph: Works by Thomas Eakins and His Circle in the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
by Susan Danley and Cheryl Leibold

 

Error

1994 Winner--A Noble and Dignified Stream: The Piscataqua Region in the Colonial Revival, 1860-1930

edited by Sarah L. Giffen and Kevin D. Murphy

 

Error


In Association with Amazon.com

THE VSA IS A NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION
help to defray our costs  by using Amazon.com

either visit our  bookstore

for suggested books

or

make any purchase after clicking on the Amazon logo
 


THE VICTORIAN SOCIETY IN AMERICA

1634 Sansom Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Phone: 215-636-9872
Fax: 215-636-9873

Email: info@victoriansociety.org


Nominate an existing VSA member to the Board

Use this form