Lost Boston / Jane Holtz Kay.

Main entry:

Kay, Jane Holtz, author.

Title & Author:

Lost Boston / Jane Holtz Kay.

Publication:

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, [1980]
©1980

Description:

xiii pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 304 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-298) and index.
The city upon a hill, 1630-1680 -- Geography is destiny, 1680-1730 -- Growth to independence, 1730-1780 -- Federalist foundations, 1780-1800 -- Splendors by the shovelful, 1800-1820 -- Granite in Athens, 1820-1850 -- New land, 1850-1870 -- The city afire, 1870-1880 -- The greening of Boston, 1880-1900 -- Muted hurrahs, 1900-1930.

Summary:

This book traces Boston's architecture evolution brick by brick and block by block with 350 photographs and prints.

Resources:
Contributor biographical information

ISBN:

0395276098 (pbk)
9780395276099 (pbk)

Subject:

Lost architecture Massachusetts Boston.
Architecture Mutilation, defacement, etc. Massachusetts Boston.
Architecture Mutilation Massachusetts Boston.
Monuments disparus Massachusetts Boston.
Architecture Mutilation, defacement, etc.
Buildings
Lost architecture
Boston (Mass.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Boston (Mass.) History.
Boston (Mass.) Constructions.
Boston (Mass.) Histoire.
Massachusetts Boston
United States, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston History
United States, Massachusetts, Suffolk, Boston Description and travel

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 9147
Call No.: W12764; ID:87-B226
Status: Available

Location: Library main 9146
Call No.: 10161; ID:87-B226
Status: Available

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