Buildings of Massachusetts : metropolitan Boston / edited by Keith N. Morgan ; principal authors, Richard M. Candee [and others] ; photography by Peter Vanderwarker with additional photographs by Antonina Smith.

Title & Author:

Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.

Description:

xvii, 665 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.

Series:

Buildings of the United States

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 577-593) and index.
Introduction to metropolitan Boston: four centuries of architecture and development -- Core Boston -- Boston's neighborhoods -- Cambridge -- Near north suburbs -- On the ocean -- North -- Northeast communities -- Around Middlesex Fells -- Mystic River Valley -- Route 128 corridor north -- Near northwest suburbs -- The Battle Road -- Route 128 corridor northwest -- North of the Charles River -- South of the Charles River -- Western suburbs -- Route 128 corridor southwest -- Neponset River Valley -- On the ocean -- South -- Glossary.
Also issued in electronic format.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This volume examines the architecture, landscape, and planning of Boston and 41 surrounding cities and towns. The book spans the period from the initial colonial settlement of the 1630s to contemporary additions to the area's architecture, and includes both exceptional and representative buildings and locations.

Resources:
Table of contents
Table of contents only

ISBN:

9780813927091 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0813927099 (cloth ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Architecture Massachusetts Boston Metropolitan Area Guidebooks.
Architecture
Buildings
Architektur
Architecture Massachusetts Boston Metropolitan area Guidebooks.
Boston (Mass.) Buildings, structures, etc. Guidebooks.
Boston (Mass.) Guidebooks.
Massachusetts Boston
Massachusetts Boston Metropolitan Area
Boston, Mass.
Boston, Mass. Region
Boston <Mass., Region>

Form/genre:

Guidebook
travel guidebooks.
Guidebooks
Guides touristiques.

Added entries:

Morgan, Keith N., editor
Candee, Richard M., 1942-
Vanderwarker, Peter.
Smith, Antonina.
Morgan, Keith N.
Buildings of the United States.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 265096
Call No.: NA735.B7 B85 2009
Status: Available

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