Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History : Robert Morris's Folly: the Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder

Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History : Robert Morris's Folly: the Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder

Ryan K. Smith • Yale University Press

ISBN-10: 0300206976 · ISBN-13: 978‑0300206975 · 2014

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This study examines the ambitious and ultimately disastrous construction of Robert Morris’s Philadelphia mansion, a project that mirrored the financier's own dramatic economic collapse. Ryan K. Smith analyzes the intersection of Federal-era architectural aspirations and the volatile financial landscape of the early American republic, illustrating how Morris’s Neoclassical folly became a potent symbol of personal and national overreach.

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