Review: Tremaine Houses: One Family’s Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America

Book Review| March 01 2024 Review: Tremaine Houses: One Family's Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America Volker M. Welter Tremaine Houses: One Family's Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2019, 224 pp. , 1 chart, 50 color and 67 b/w illus. 55 (cloth), ISBN 9781606066140 Lauren Weiss Bricker Lauren Weiss Bricker California State Polytechnic University, Pomona Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (2024) 83 (1): 110–111. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 1. 110 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: Tremaine Houses: One Family's Patronage of Domestic Architecture in Midcentury America. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 1 March 2024; 83 (1): 110–111. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/jsah. 2024. 83. 1. 110 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the Society of Architectural Historians Search In architectural history, scholars too rarely attribute works of architecture to collaborations between architects and their clients. They are more likely to explain a work in terms of the architect's design proclivity or, at times, the skill of the client. Fortunately, Volker M. Welter takes a very different approach in Tremaine Houses, which focuses on key works of modern art and architecture while emphasizing the architectural patronage of the Tremaine family. The brothers Burton and Warren Tremaine and their wives, Emily Hall and Katherine Williams, hailed from a history of affluence. The Tremaine family holdings included the Miller Company, a light-fixture business in Meriden, Connecticut, and ranch lands near Mesa, Arizona. The trove of archival materials associated with the family and its architects, including those housed in the Art, Design & Architecture Museum of the University of California, Santa Barbara (where Welter is a professor of history of art. . . You do not currently have access to this content.