Introduction: grappling with modernity -- Dramatis personae: twelve architect-leaders -- Arts and crafts advocates, arts and crafts architects -- An intellectual stew: Emerson, Norton, Brandeis -- An arts and crafts movement emerges in New England -- Looking backward: from Romanesque to Gothic revival -- Looking backward: Colonial revival as arts and crafts -- Looking forward: building for the twentieth century -- Epilogue: confronting modernism.