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The American hotel.

Title
The American hotel.
Publication
Miami Beach, Fla. : Wolfsonian-Florida International University ; Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by MIT Press, c2005.

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Additional Authors
Wolfsonian-Florida International University.
Description
315 p. ; ill., plans; 26 cm.
Series Statement
The journal of decorative and propaganda arts ; 25
Uniform Title
The journal of decorative and propaganda arts ; 25.
Alternative Title
DAPA 25
Subject
  • Lapidus, Morris
  • Hotels > Designs and plans
  • Hotels > United States
  • Architecture > United States
  • Resort architecture
  • Decorative arts > History
Genre/Form
  • Architectural drawings
  • History
Note
  • "Exploring the period 1875-1945"--P. [3].
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Indexed In (note)
  • Journal of decorative and propaganda Arts
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Millionaires' elysiums : the luxury apartment hotels of Schultze and Weaver / Andrew S. Dolkart -- The rich man's city : hotels and mansions of gilded age New York / Molly W. Berger -- Early twentieth-century hotel architects and the origins of standardization / Lisa Pfueller Davidson -- The new south in the ancient city : Flagler's St. Augustine hotels and sectional reconciliation / Reiko Hillyer -- Revisiting hotels and other lodgings : American tourist spaces through the lens of Black pleasure-travelers, 1880-1950 / Myra B. Young Armstead -- Princes and maids of the city hotel : the cultural politics of commercial hospitality in America / A.K. Sandoval-Strausz and Daniel Levinson Wilk -- William Price's Traymore Hotel : modernity in the mass resort / George E. Thomas and Susan Nigra Snyder -- Merchandising Miami Beach : Morris Lapidus and the architecture of abundance / Alice T. Friedman -- Living large : the brash, bodacious hotels of Dorothy Draper / Mitchell Owensriter -- "Wrecking the joint" : the razing of city hotels in the first half of the twentieth century / Bernard L. Jim.
ISBN
1930776179 (pbk.)
OCLC
  • 60397242
  • SCSB-11100572
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library