A selection of our books on great houses is shown below. Many more titles can be found at our gallery in Pine Plains: please visit!

James T. Maher
The Twilight of Splendor
Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1975
Hard-to-find study of five of the greatest houses built in the US including Vizcaya and Whitemarsh Hall; a fine work of literature as well as history.

The Maharaja of Baroda (text) and Virginia Fass (photographs)
The Palaces of India
London: Collins, 1980
First edition of this marvelous volume with color and black-and-white photos and meticulously researched text.
Deborah Turbeville (photos), Louis Auchincloss (text)
Newport Remembered
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994
Signed by Louis Auchincloss
Turbeville’s remarkable, atmospheric photos of Newport’s great houses.

Jacquetta M. Haley, ed.
Pleasure Grounds: Andrew Jackson Downing and Montgomery Place
Tarrytown, NY: Sleepy Hollow Press, 1988, stated first printing.
A charming collection of writings by Downing, “America’s first professional landscape gardener,” illustrated with 14 watercolors by his collaborator Alexander Jackson Davis, all focused on Montgomery Place the Dutchess County estate of the Livingston family.