An invaluable resource for readers interested in architecture and design that demonstrates how the construction, form, and function of key structures in the 19th-century influenced American social, political, economic, and intellectual life.
Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
How to Evaluate Buildings and Structures.
Chronology.
Civic Architecture.
1: United States Capitol.
2: White House.
3: University of Virginia Rotunda.
4: Erie Canal.
5: Snug Harbor “Temple Row”.
6: Smithsonian Institution Building (“The Castle”).
7: Central Park.
8: Richardson Olmsted Complex (Former Buffalo State Hospital).
9: Memorial Hall, Centennial Exhibition.
10: Iolani Palace.
11: Easton Railroad Station.
12: Brooklyn Bridge.
13: Statue of Liberty.
14: Carnegie Library.
15: Hull House.
16: World’s Columbian Exposition, Palace of Fine Arts Building (Currently Museum of Science and Industry).
Commercial Architecture.
17: Boott Mill.
18: Ford’s Theatre.
19: Madison Square Garden.
20: Wainwright Building.
21: Marshall Field Department Store.
22: Bradbury Building.
Domestic Architecture.
23: Evergreen Plantation.
24: Slave Quarters, Evergreen Plantation.
25: Lyndhurst.
26: Kit Carson House.
27: Walden Pond Cabin.
28: Longwood Octagon House.
29: 97 Orchard Street (Currently the Lower East Side Tenement Museum).
30: Mark Twain House.
31: Emlen Physick House.
32: Home and Tower Buildings.
33: Pullman, Illinois, Clock Tower and Administration Building.
