Main entry:

Stern, Robert A. M., author.

Title & Author:

New York 1880 : architecture and urbanism in the gilded age / Robert A.M. Stern, Thomas Mellins, and David Fishman.

Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Monacelli Press, 1999.

Description:

1164 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 1031-1130) and index.
Representative place. Government buildings -- Places of learning -- Museums -- Libraries -- Clubs -- Armories -- Hospitals and charities -- Places of worship -- Memorials and monuments -- World's fair -- Workplaces. The rise of the office building -- Banks and exchanges -- Warehouses -- Places called home. Tenements -- Hotels -- Apartment houses -- The artistic house -- Amusements. Theaters -- Opera houses -- Concert halls -- Pleasure gardens -- Stores -- Restaurants -- New neighborhoods. West side -- Upper Manhattan -- Brooklyn -- The suburban ideal.

Summary:

"New York 1880 turns back to the Gilded Age - from 1865 to 1890 - the explosive period of growth between the Civil War and the onset of American internationalism."--BOOK JACKET. "New York 1880 reveals a city in the throes of dramatic technological change. Vast infrastructure projects not only brought the telephone, electric light, and elevator to everyday use, but also installed new systems of water supply and rapid transit that together allowed the city to grow both out and up. Massive projects such as Central Park, the Brooklyn Bridge, and Grand Central Depot were completed, giving a new scale and grandeur to the city."--Jacket.
"For the very rich, there were houses such as private citizens in America had never before built for themselves; for the growing middle class, comfortable apartments and suburban houses set new standards for the world; and for the poor, there were tenements but also model dwellings that promised a better future."--BOOK JACKET. "New York 1880 definitively presents the buildings and master plans that transformed New York from a harbor town into a world-class metropolis. The book is generously illustrated with over 1,200 archival photographs that show the city as it was; through a broad range of primary sources - critics and writers, architects, planners, and government officials - New York City tells its own complex story."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

1580930271
9781580930277

Subject:

Metropolitan Museum of Art
Eclecticism in architecture New York (State) New York.
Architecture New York (State) New York History 19th century.
City planning New York (State) New York History 19th century.
City planning.
Architecture as Topic
City Planning
Eclecticism
Éclectisme en architecture New York (État) New York.
Architecture New York (État) New York 19e siècle.
Urbanisme New York (État) New York Histoire 19e siècle.
Architecture New York (État) New York Histoire 19e siècle.
Urbanisme.
urban planning.
Architecture
Buildings
Eclecticism in architecture
Architektur
Eklektizismus
Bouwkunst.
Stedenbouw.
Éclectisme (architecture) États-Unis New York (N.Y.)
Architecture 19e siècle.
Urbanisme États-Unis New York (N.Y.) 19e siècle.
New York (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc.
New York (State)
New York (N.Y.) Constructions.
New York (State) New York
New York, NY
New York <NY>

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Added entries:

Mellins, Thomas, author.
Fishman, David, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 207255
Call No.: NA735.N5 S7 1999
Status: Available