Main entry:

Bunting, Bainbridge, author.

Title & Author:

Houses of Boston's Back Bay : an architectural history, 1840-1917 / by Bainbridge Bunting.

Publication:

Cambridge : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1967.

Description:

xvii, 494 pages : illustrations, maps, plans ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The cultural background of the Back Bay development -- Topographical development of Boston: 1790-1965 -- The traditional period: 1844-1857 -- The period of academic hegemony: 1857-1869 -- The decades of individualism: 1869-1885 -- The authentic revivals and triumph of the Georgian style: 1885-1917 -- The Back Bay area as an example of city planning.
W2940: xvii + (1) + 494 p. 250 photo illustrations.
9699: xvii, 494 p.

Summary:

"With 250 superb illustrations to accompany his text, Bainbridge Bunting focuses on a significant architectural form--the town house--and chronicles its development throughout the period of the Back Bay's greatest growth. His study covers the adoption and eventual discard of every local architectural style from the mansarded French Academic to the Georgian Revival--all of which later gained national acceptance"--Back cover.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0674409019
9780674409019

Subject:

Architecture, Domestic Massachusetts Boston.
Decoration and ornament Massachusetts Boston.
Décoration et ornement Massachusetts Boston.
Architecture, Domestic
Decoration and ornament
Städtebau
Wohnungsbau
Back Bay (Boston, Mass.)
Massachusetts Boston Back Bay
Massachusetts Boston
Boston, Mass.
Boston <Mass.>

Holdings:

Location: Library main 83227
Call No.: W2940; ID:85-B11360
Status: Available

Location: Library main 83225
Call No.: 516; ID:85-B11360
Status: Available

Location: Library main 83226
Call No.: 9699 A729; ID:85-B11360
Status: Available