| Houses of Boston's Back Bay: An Architectural History, 1840-1917 Contributor(s): Bunting, Bainbridge (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674409000 ISBN-13: 9780674409002 Publisher: Belknap Press OUR PRICE: $99.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1967 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Architecture | Buildings - Residential - Travel | United States - General - Architecture | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
| Dewey: 728.310 |
| LCCN: 66021334 |
| Series: Belknap Press |
| Physical Information: 1.45" H x 6.62" W x 9.62" (2.10 lbs) 494 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This superbly illustrated book records the development of Boston's Back Bay during the period of its greatest growth. Bainbridge Bunting focuses his study on one particularly significant architectural form--the town house. He chronicles, both pictorially and verbally, the first appearance, evolution, and eventual discard, during the era, of every local architectural style, all of which later gained national acceptance. He shows how architectural styles were affected by such developments as the electric light, changing preferences in materials, machine production of such interior parts as woodwork and mantels, new fire laws and building restrictions, and rising labor costs. He also provides an extensive account of the pivotal role played by members of the Boston Society of Architects in the growth of the profession throughout the country during this formative period. These Back Bay homes, Bunting points out, reflect to a striking degree the social and cultural attitudes of the community and, in the process of reconstructing the life that was led in them, he offers an absorbing and perceptive commentary on Boston society and its mores. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bunting, Bainbridge: - Bainbridge Bunting was Director of the Cambridge Historical Commission's Survey of Architectural History in Cambridge. |