Use the historic name of the house in italics and then add your architectural language to follow.



Cheers!

Dave



David Harvey

Conservator

Los Angeles. CA



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Date:         Mon, 5 May 2008 12:05:32 

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Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Calling all wordsmiths-help needed with title!





Dear friends,



I am certain that someone on the museum list can help me find just the  

right word needed for the title of a writing project focused on a  

historic house here at Sweet Briar College.



This project will focus on the three primary phases of the house's  

architectural history: its original form as a Palladian house built in  

the late 18th century (white columns, double portico), its renovation  

as an Italianate villa in the mid-19th century, and its reincarnation  

as a monument to the Aesthetic Movement, complete with roaming  

peacocks and bamboo forests in the late 19th century.



The working title is: "Sweet Briar House, 1800-1900: Palladian  

Plantation, Italianate Villa, Aesthetic Retreat."



The editors are quibbling with the word "Plantation," since while  

Sweet Briar certainly was a working plantation during this time  

period, the plantation proper is not the focus, only the house  

itself--and "Plantation House" won't work since it repeats the house's  

name.  They like leading off with the alliteration although it's not  

strictly necessary--and somehow "Palladian Pad" and "Palladian  

Palace," which are all I'm coming up with, probably won't work!



So, I am hoping that some of the inveterate wordsmiths out there can  

help me find a word to substitute for plantation house that will  

convey the appropriate meaing and work nicely with the rest of the  

title!



Many thanks in advance for your assistance.



All best,

Christian

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Christian Carr

Director, Sweet Briar Museum

Assistant Professor of Arts Management

PO Box 144, Sweet Briar, VA 24595

Phone: 434.381.6246 Fax: 434.381.6132

(mailing address same as above)



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