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Book about Louisiana architect Henry Howard wins prize

Tom Hoepf
Tom Hoepf
The 1846 Madewood Plantation House near Napoleonville, Louisiana, is architecturally significant as the first major work of Henry Howard and as one of the finest Greek Revival plantation houses in the South. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
The 1846 Madewood Plantation House near Napoleonville, Louisiana, is architecturally significant as the first major work of Henry Howard and as one of the finest Greek Revival plantation houses in the South. Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

 

NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The Historic New Orleans Collection says a book it published last year has won an award from the Victorian Society in America.

The book is Henry Howard: Louisiana’s Architect, co-published by the Princeton Architectural Press. It’s about one of Louisiana’s most prolific 19th-century architects. Author and photographer Robert Brantley, his late wife, Jan White Brantley, and a descendant of Howard named Victor McGee spent decades documenting Howard’s work.

A news release from the museum-based publishing house says The Victorian Society will present its Henry-Russell Hitchcock Award to Brantley at its annual meeting April 30 in Las Vegas. The award is for a book centered on Victorian architecture or decorative arts.

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