New York 1880 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New York 1880 write by Robert A.M. Stern. This book was released on 1999-04-01. New York 1880 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the fourth volume in architect and historian Robert A. M. Stern's monumental series of documentary studies of New York City architecture and urbanism. The three previous books in the series, New York 1900, New York 1930, and New York 1960, have comprehensively covered the architects and urban planners who defined New York over the course of the twentieth century. In this volume, Stern turns back to 1880 -- the end of the Civil War, the beginning of European modernism -- to trace the earlier history of the city. This dynamic era saw the technological advances and acts of civic and private will that formed the identity of New York City as we know it today. The installation of water, telephone, and electricity infrastructures as well as the advent of electric lighting, the elevator, and mass transit allowed the city to grow both out and up. The office building and apartment house types were envisioned and defined, changing the ways that New Yorkers worked and lived. Such massive public projects as the Brooklyn Bridge and Central Park became realities, along with such private efforts as Grand Central Station. Like the other three volumes, New York 1880 is an in-depth presentation of the buildings and plans that transformed New York from a harbor town into a world-class metropolis. A broad range of primary sources -- critics and writers, architects, planners, city officials -- brings the time period to life and allows the city to tell its own complex story. The book is generously illustrated with over 1,200 archival photographs, which show the city as it was, and as some parts of it still are.
Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930
Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930 write by Michael C. Kathrens. This book was released on 2005. Great Houses of New York, 1880-1930 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With anecdotes about the owners brightening the survey of the mansions, their construction, and architectural features, this text contains 43 entries, each illustrated with a wealth of period photos of the building's exterior and, especially, interior rooms and decor. An introduction discusses New York City's architectural history. An appendix with
New York 1900
New York 1900 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook New York 1900 write by Robert A. M. Stern. This book was released on 1983. New York 1900 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Historical photographs, plans, and elevations document the cultural and artistic flowering in New York.
At the Edge of a Dream
At the Edge of a Dream - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook At the Edge of a Dream write by Lawrence J Epstein. This book was released on 2007-08-17. At the Edge of a Dream available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A Lower East Side Tenement Museum book."
Strangers in the West
Strangers in the West - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strangers in the West write by Linda K. Jacobs. This book was released on 2019-10-02. Strangers in the West available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Strangers in the West is the never before told story about the Syrian/Lebanese immigrants who, beginning in 1880, settled on the lower west side of Manhattan. Coming from what was then known as "Greater Syria," these immigrants gathered near the Battery where they disembarked after their long journey from the Middle East. Settling in tenements recently abandoned by Irish immigrants, these recent arrivals to the New World founded an Arabic-speaking enclave just south of the future site of the World Trade Center. They opened Syrian restaurants, half a dozen Arabic-language newspapers, oriental merchandise and food shops, and four Syrian churches. They capitalized on the orientalist craze sweeping the United States by opening Turkish smoking parlors, presenting belly dancers on vaudeville stages, and performing across the country in native costume. Peddlers and merchants, midwives and doctors, priests and journalists, belly dancers and impresarios--all were part of the small community in its first 20 years. This is their story.
