Built in Boston : city and suburb, 1800-1950 / Douglass Shand Tucci ; with a foreword by Walter Muir Whitehill.

Main entry:

Shand-Tucci, Douglass, 1941-

Title & Author:

Built in Boston : city and suburb, 1800-1950 / Douglass Shand Tucci ; with a foreword by Walter Muir Whitehill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Boston : New York Graphic Society, 1978.

Description:

xviii, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-255) and index.
Before and after Bullfinch -- The great traditions -- H.H. Richardson's Boston -- Streetcar city, garden suburbs -- French flats and three-deckers -- Charles McKim and the classical revival -- Ralph Adams Cram and Boston gothic -- The shadow of Louis Sullivan -- The Boston rialto -- Toward Gropius.

Summary:

This book presents a full history of Boston's architecture, from Charles Bulfinch to Walter Gropius. It also deals at some length with Victorian suburbs as well as with the city proper; and treats seriously not only late nineteenth-century design but also Boston's early Modernist architecture and its twentieth-century Classical, Gothic, Colonial, and Art Deco buildings.

ISBN:

0821207415
9780821207413

Subject:

Architecture, Victorian Massachusetts Boston.
Architecture Massachusetts Boston History.
Buildings Massachusetts Boston.
Architecture Massachusetts Boston 19e siècle.
Architecture victorienne Massachusetts Boston.
Architecture Massachusetts Boston 20e siècle.
Architecture Massachusetts Boston Histoire.
Constructions Massachusetts Boston.
Architecture.
Architecture, Victorian.
Buildings.
Boston (Mass.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Massachusetts Boston.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Whitehill, Walter Muir, 1905-1978, writer of foreword.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 42574
Call No.: 2565; ID:89-B2499
Status: Available

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