Research Catalog

Title

The architecture of New York City : histories and views of important structures, sites, and symbols / by Donald M. Reynolds.

Author

Reynolds, Donald M.

Publication

New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, ©1984.

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Details

Description

xi, 339 pages : illustrations; 27 cm

Summary

This introduction to the architecture of New York city presents a compendium of histories and views of more than eighty major structures, sites, and symbols, from the seventeenth century to the early 1980s.

Subject

• Symbolism in architecture > New York (State) > New York
• Buildings > New York (State) > New York
• Buildings
• Symbolism in architecture
• Architektur
• Geschichte
• Baustil
• Symbolfunktion
• Bouwkunst
• New York (N.Y.) > Buildings, structures, etc. > History
• New York (State) > New York
• New York, NY

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 329-334.

Contents

Seventeenth century : Dutch beginnings -- Eighteenth century : Georgian architecture and a revolution -- The Federal style -- Nineteenth century : Greek revival -- Temples of commerce and houses of industry -- Churches : from temple fronts to statue columns -- Cast-iron buildings, their legacy, and the Palazzo style -- The tallest building in the world, 1913-30 : the Woolworth building -- Fashionable dwellings -- Theaters -- The New York port comes of age -- Art deco skyscrapers -- Rockefeller center : innovation in urban planning -- Graves, gardens, and parks -- The picturesque point of view : Fronthill castle, firehouses, and the seventh regiment armory -- "O harp and altar" : the Brooklyn Bridge.

ISBN

• 0026024004
• 9780026024006

LCCN

83026736

OCLC

• ocm10277793
• 10277793
• SCSB-98016

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library