Bob Vila's less widely known productions include:
Guide to Historic Homes of America (1996),
In Search of Palladio (1996) for
A&E, and
Restore America for
HGTV.
Guide to Historic Homes of America The
Guide to Historic Homes of America (1996) includes two-hour segments on each of four major regions of the United States: the
Northeast (including
New England and the
Mid-Atlantic States), the
South, the
Midwest, and the
West.
The Northeast •
Morris–Jumel Mansion overlooking the
Polo Grounds in
Washington Heights, Manhattan. •
Dyckman House on
Broadway in
Upper Manhattan. •
Hancock Shaker Village in western Massachusetts. •
Strawbery Banke restoration in
Portsmouth, New Hampshire. •
Olana"a palatial amalgam of Middle Eastern and European influences"
The Mid-Atlantic States •
Chesapeake Bay and
Annapolis, Maryland
William Paca House and
Hammond–Harwood House. •
New Castle, Delaware
George Read, Jr. House, built by the son of
George Read. •
Baltimore, Maryland
Homewood House on the
Johns Hopkins University Homewood campus. • Washington, D.C.
Decatur House on
President's Park and
Tudor Place in
Georgetown. ;
The South •
Thomas Jefferson •
University of Virginiaten residential pavilions surround
the great, terraced Lawn. •
Ash Lawn–Highland. •
Poplar Forestoctagonal house filmed while undergoing complete restoration. •
Monticelloincludes Dome Room at top of building (not open to the public) and Honeymoon Cottage. •
Natchez, Mississippi • House on Endicott Hillearly trader's house. • Rosalie
Federal architecture mansion with John Henry Belter furniture and a panoramic view of
Mississippi River. • Stanton Hall"perhaps the grandest
Greek Revival house anywhere." Designed by Captain Thomas Rose. •
Longwoodbegun in 1860 by
Samuel Sloan. Never finished; construction halted in April 1861. •
Texarkana, Texasthe
Ace of Clubs House. ;
The Midwest and West •
Ellwood Housebuilt by
barbed wire entrepreneur
Isaac L. Ellwood in
DeKalb, Illinois. •
Frank Lloyd Wright •
Dana-Thomas HousePrairie School style home in
Springfield,
Illinois. Quoted as being "richer in detail than any other Wright home." •
FallingwaterOrganically designed residence that draws heavily upon inspiration from
Japanese architecture. Located in the
Laurel Highlands near
Pittsburgh. •
Cooper–Molera Adobeearly Spanish Colonial owned by the
National Trust for Historic Preservation in
Monterey State Historic Park. •
FiloliGeorgian home designed by
Willis Polk; located in
Woodside, California on the eastern slopes of the
Santa Cruz Mountains. •
Tor Housestone house and tower overlooking the Pacific Ocean at
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California; built by
Robinson Jeffers.
In Search of Palladio In Search of Palladio (1996) is a three-part, six-hour study of the work and lasting influence of the 16th-century architect
Andrea Palladio. Palladio designed various types of buildings, but the series concentrates on his domestic architecture. (see also:
Palladian Villas of the Veneto).
I. Villas of the Veneto •
Villa Giustinian,
RoncadeFor Vila, this building (not by Palladio) provided the context for Palladio's innovative thinkinggothic
battlements,
portcullis, and stone walls that concealed a
Renaissance palace and farm buildings. •
Villa Pisani in
Montagnanaa descendant of the original owners served as Vila's guide. •
Villa CornaroA suburban villa on a town street, a palatial residence which was also an on-site place of business for running a large farming enterprise. •
Villa Barbaro. •
Villa EmoFor Vila this is "perhaps the most dramatic farmhouse ever built". •
La Rocca Pisanaspectacular hilltop
belvedere by Palladio's pupil
Vincenzo Scamozzi. ;II.
The Palladians in England and Ireland • London:
Chiswick House,
Marble Hill House and
Stourhead. •
Bath, Somerset:
Queen Square,
The Circus and the
Royal Crescent. • Ireland:
Casino at Marino"the architectural equivalent of a
Fabergé egg". • Northern Ireland:
Castle Wardoverlooking
Strangford Lough with both
Palladian and
Gothic facades and interiors. ;III.
The Palladian Legacy in America •
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
Mount Pleasant. •
Marblehead and
Waltham, Massachusetts:
Jeremiah Lee Mansion and
Gore Place •
Hudson Valley,
New York:
Boscobel House Museumpurchased in 1955 for thirty-five dollars. Meticulously restored, situated on a bluff on the east bank of the
Hudson River opposite the
United States Military Academy at West Point. •
Hartford, Connecticut:
Austin Housebuilt for
Wadsworth Atheneum director
Arthur Everett Austin, Jr. •
South Bend, Indiana. In Indiana, Vila looks at
University of Notre Dame architectural school "where Palladio and classical architecture are taken seriously indeed",
Vitruvian House designed by Thomas Gordon Smith and
Villa Indiana designed by
Duncan G. Stroik.
Restore America Restore America consists of 50 one-hour segments which explore
historic preservation and
building restoration in each of the fifty U.S. states. Anticipating the turn of the 3rd millennium, it was first
broadcast on
HGTV between July 4, 1999, and July 4, 2000. ==Bibliography==