Cast-Iron Architecture in America The Significance of James Bogardus

Name: Cast-Iron Architecture in America The Significance of James Bogardus
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ISBN: 9780393730159

ISBN-10: 0393730158

ISBN-13: 9780393730159

Edition: 1998

Authors: Carol Gayle, Margot Gayle

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Book details

List price: $39.50
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/17/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 8.35" wide x 10.28" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 2.332
Language: English

Margot Gayle, a nationally known authority on cast-iron architecture, lives in New York City.



Foreword


Preface and Acknowledgments



Iron Architecture Before Bogardus



James Bogardus, Mechanic-Inventor, 1800-1846



Inventing Cast-Iron Architecture, 1847-1850



Builder in Cast Iron, 1850-1851



The Era of the Crystal Palace, 1852-1853



The Harper Buildings and the Tompkins Market, 1854-1855



Cast-Iron Architecture Comes of Age



Cast-Iron Architecture Vindicated: The End of the 1850s



Man of Progress, 1859-1862



The Final Decade



The Legacy of James Bogardus


List of Buildings


Notes


Bibliography


Index