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Buildings and landmarks of 19th-century America, American society revealed, Elizabeth B. Greene

eng

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-316) and index

index present

non fiction

Buildings and landmarks of 19th-century America

bibliography

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Elizabeth B. Greene

American society revealed

Preface -- Introduction -- How to evaluate buildings and structures -- Chronology -- Civic architecture. United States Capitol [Washington, DC, 1793-1960] ; White House [Washington, DC, 1800] ; University of Virginia Rotunda [Charlottesville, Virginia, 1826] ; Erie Canal [Albany, New York, to Buffalo, New York, 1825] ; Snug Harbor "Temple Row" [Staten Island, New York, 1831] ; Smithsonian Institution Building ("The Castle") [Washington, DC, 1855] ; Central Park [New York, New York, 1857] ; Richardson Olmsted Complex (former Buffalo State Hospital) [Buffalo, New York, 1870] ; Memorial Hall Centennial Exhibition [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1876] ; Iolani Palace [Honolulu, Hawaii, 1879] ; Easton Railroad Station [Easton, Massachusetts, 1881] ; Brooklyn Bridge [Brooklyn, New York, 1883] ; Statue of Liberty [New York, New York, 1886] ; Carnegie Library [Braddock, Pennsylvania, 1889] ; Hull House [Chicago, Illinois, 1856, 1889] ; World's Columbian Exhibition, Palace of Fine Arts Building, (currently Museum of Science and Industry) [Chicago, Illinois, 1893] -- Commercial architecture. Boott Mill [Lowell, Massachusetts, 1835] ; Ford's Theatre [Washington, DC, 1863] ; Madison Square Garden [New York, New York, 1879, 1890] ; Wainwright Building [St. Louis, Missouri, 1891] ; Marshall Field Department Store [Chicago, Illinois, 1892] ; Bradbury Building [Los Angeles, California, 1893] -- Domestic architecture. Evergreen Plantation [Wallace, Louisiana, 1832] ; Slave quarters, Evergreen Plantation [Wallace, Louisiana, ca. 1845] ; Lyndhurst [Tarrytown, New York, 1838] ; Kit Carson House [Taos, New Mexico, 1843] ; Walden Pond Cabin [Concord, Massachusetts, 1845] ; Longwood Octagon House [Natchez, Mississippi, 1859] ; 97 Orchard Street (currently the Lower East Side Tenement Museum) [New York, NY, 1863] ; Mark Twain House [Hartford, Connecticut, 1874] ; Emlen Physick House [Cape May, New Jersey, 1879] ; Home and Tower Buildings [Brooklyn, New York, 1879] ; Pullman Illinois, Clock Tower and Administration Building [Pullman, Illinois, 1880] ; Dakota Apartments [New York, New York, 1880-1884] ; Glenmont, Thomas Edison Estate [West Orange, New Jersey, 1887] ; Frank Reed Three Decker House [Worcester, Massachusetts, 1888] ; The Breakers [Newport, Rhode Island, 1893] ; Dowse Sod House [Comstock, Nebraska, 1900] -- Fortifications. Fort Clatsop [Astoria, Oregon, 1805] ; Fort Sumter [Charleston, South Carolina, 1829] -- Religious and funerary architecture. New Harmony [Harmony Township, Indiana, 1825] ; Round Stone Barn, Hancock Shaker Village [Pittsfield, Massachusetts, 1826] ; Mount Auburn Cemetery [Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1831] ; Mormon Tabernacle [Salt Lake City, Utah 1864-1867] ; Trinity Church [Boston, Massachusetts, 1877] -- Glossary