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Contents

Note to the Reader

3

1.

The Tumbling Worlds of Henry Adams

5

Adams Family

5

Great Scott! Sir Walter

9

Gothic Harvard

18

Photographic Memory

33

Reluctant Professor

37

Five of Hearts

40

Self-Made Medievalist

46

2.

Our Lady’s Tumbler in Mont Saint Michel and Chartres

55

The Nature of the Book

55

Madonna of Medieval France, La Dona of Washington

59

Universal Exposition of 1900

71

Old Paris

75

Dynamo and Virgin Suicide

88

Henry Adams as Jongleur

96

Unity and Multiplicity

102

Medievalist Dream of a Dying DC Dynasty?

103

3.

Britain and the Making of the American Middle Ages

107

The Goth Side of Washington

107

Goths and the Meanings of Gothic(k)

117

John Ruskin and William Morris

121

Richardsonian Romanesque

132

Saint John the Divine and Trinity Church

138

Cathedral Culture

143

Kenneth Clark

147

4.

The Boston Bohemians

149

Our Lady’s Tumbler in Boston Bohemia

149

Charles Eliot Norton

151

The Knight Errant and Copeland & Day

154

Fred Holland Day

160

Ralph Adams Cram, Great Goth Almighty

171

Americanized Middle Ages

184

5.

The Rise of Collegiate Gothic

189

American Gothic Colleges: Ogive Talking

189

F. Scott Fitzgerald and the Gothic Jazz Age

202

Late Collegiate Gothic at Duke and Rhodes

206

Cathedrals of Learning

211

Gothic Landscaping: Picturesque Perfect

216

Trees as Nature’s Cathedrals

220

Collegiate Gothic Havens

229

Ivy League and Ivory Tower

229

6.

Point Taken: Gothic Modernism and the Modern Middle Ages

239

The Origins of Gothic Skyscrapers: Top That

239

The Cathedral of Commerce

252

The Tribune Tower

258

Giving Gothic: John D. Rockefeller Jr.

264

“Not a Cathedral-Building Age” and Thorstein Veblen

271

Seeing Chicago in Gray and White

274

Hooting at Yale Gothic

278

World War I and Modernism

288

Notes

301

Notes to Chapter 1

301

Notes to Chapter 2

316

Notes to Chapter 3

336

Notes to Chapter 4

353

Notes to Chapter 5

368

Notes to Chapter 6

411

Bibliography

447

Abbreviations

447

Referenced Works

447

List of Illustrations

427

Index

473