Research Catalog

Title

Morningside Heights : a history of its architecture & development / Andrew S. Dolkart.

Author

Dolkart, Andrew.

Publication

New York : Columbia University Press, [1998], ©1998.

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Description

xix, 505 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Summary

• The announcement during the final years of the nineteenth century that the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Columbia College, St. Luke's Hospital, Teachers College, and Barnard College would construct new complexes on Morningside Heights heralded the transformation of this geographically isolated area into "the Acropolis of New York." Over the next several decades, these institutions, as well as Union Theological Seminary, Jewish Theological Seminary, the Institute of Musical Art/Julliard School of Music, and Riverside Church created a neighborhood of spectacular institutional buildings. In this lavishly illustrated book, Andrew S. Dolkart explores the richly varied architecture and history of these complexes and of the surrounding residential neighborhood and thus reveals a fascinating chapter in the life of New York City.
• The announcement during the final years of the nineteenth century that the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Columbia College, St.
• Luke's Hospital, Teachers College, and Barnard College would construct new complexes on Morningside Heights heralded the transformation of this geographically isolated area into "the Acropolis of New York." Over the next several decades, these institutions, as well as Union Theological Seminary, Jewish Theological Seminary, the Institute of Musical Art/Julliard School of Music, and Riverside Church created a neighborhood of spectacular institutional buildings. In this lavishly illustrated book, Andrew S.
• Dolkart explores the richly varied architecture and history of these complexes and of the surrounding residential neighborhood and thus reveals a fascinating chapter in the life of New York City.

Series Statement

The Columbia history of urban life

Uniform Title

Columbia history of urban life.

Subjects

• Architecture
• New York (State) > New York
• New York (State) > New York > Morningside Heights
• Architecture, Modern > New York (State) > 19th century > New York
• Bouwkunst
• Morningside Heights (New York, N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc
• Buildings
• Architecture, Modern > New York (State) > 20th century > New York
• Morningside Heights (New York, N.Y.) > History
• Stadsplanning
• New York (N.Y.) > History
• New York (N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc
• History
• Architecture > New York (State) > New York

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-467) and index.

ISBN

• 0231078501
• 9780231078504

LCCN

97044482

OCLC

• ocm37843816
• 37843816

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries