Wendell Garrett

Wendell D. Garrett (October 9, 1929 – November 14, 2012) was an American historian, expert on Americana and American-origin decorative arts and editor.

Early life and education Born in Los Angeles, Garrett received a bachelor's degree in history from the University of California, Los Angeles. beginning with its debut season in 1997,

In the last month of his life Garrett moved from his Manhattan apartment to a hospice in Williston, Vermont due to declining health.

Books Apthorp House, 1760-1960 (1960) The Diary and Autobiography of John Adams (1961), with L.H. Butterfield Adams Family Correspondence, vols. 1-2 (1963), with L.H. Butterfield The Arts in Early American History (1965), with Walter Muir Whitehill The Earliest Diary of John Adams (1966), with L.H. Butterfield Reverend E.B. Hillard’s Last Men of the Revolution (1968), with Archibald Macleish The Arts in America: The Nineteenth Century (1969), with Joseph T. Butler Thomas Jefferson Redivivus (1971) Classical America: The Federal Style and Beyond (1992) Victorian America: Classical Romanticism to Gilded Opulence (1993) Monticello and the Legacy of Thomas Jefferson (1994) Our Changing White House (1994), editor American Colonial: Puritan Simplicity to Georgian Grace (1994) George Washington’s Mount Vernon (1998), editor American Home: From Colonial Simplicity to the Modern Adventure (2001) The Legacy of John Adams (2008) Thomas Jefferson Illuminated (2009)