Main entry:

Reynolds, Donald M.

Title & Author:

The architecture of New York City : histories and views of important structures, sites, and symbols / by Donald M. Reynolds.

Publication:

New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1984.

Description:

xi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Restrictions:

Also issued online.

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-334) and index.
Seventeenth century : Dutch beginnings -- Eighteenth century : Georgian architecture and a revolution -- The Federal style -- Nineteenth century : Greek revival -- Temples of commerce and houses of industry -- Churches : from temple fronts to statue columns -- Cast-iron buildings, their legacy, and the Palazzo style -- The tallest building in the world, 1913-30 : the Woolworth building -- Fashionable dwellings -- Theaters -- The New York port comes of age -- Art deco skyscrapers -- Rockefeller center : innovation in urban planning -- Graves, gardens, and parks -- The picturesque point of view : Fronthill castle, firehouses, and the seventh regiment armory -- "O harp and altar" : the Brooklyn Bridge.

Summary:

This introduction to the architecture of New York city presents a compendium of histories and views of more than eighty major structures, sites, and symbols, from the seventeenth century to the early 1980s.

ISBN:

0026024004
9780026024006

Subject:

Symbolism in architecture New York (State) New York.
Buildings New York (State) New York.
Symbolisme en architecture New York (État) New York.
Constructions New York (État) New York.
Buildings
Symbolism in architecture
Architektur
Geschichte
Baustil
Symbolfunktion
Bouwkunst.
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc. History.
New York (N.Y.) Constructions Histoire.
New York (State) New York
New York, NY
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc History

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 25417
Call No.: PO14664; ID:88-B11590
Status: Available