Main entry:

Goode, James M., author.

Title & Author:

Capital losses : a cultural history of Washington's destroyed buildings / James M. Goode.

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press, [1979]
©1979

Description:

xxiv, 517 pages : illustrations, maps (on lining paper) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 467-468) and index.
Preface -- Introduction -- pt. I. Residential. Federal faces: Georgian and Federal houses ; Classical interlude: Greek Revival houses ; Age of Romanticism: Early Victorian houses ; Gaslight and gilt: Late Victorian houses ; The city beautiful: Post-1890 houses ; The domestic scale: Rowhouses ; The transient city: Hotels and apartment houses -- pt. II. Nonresidential. Steeped in glory: Churches ; For members only: Clubs and organizations ; Capital commerce: Commercial buildings ; Uncle Sam's workrooms: Early government buildings ; The expanding bureaucracy: Post-Civil War government buildings ; Nine to five: Office buildings ; Grease paint and celluloid: Theaters ; For mind and body: Schools and hospitals ; A moving experience: Transportation buildings ; Hooks and ladders: Fire stations ; "Tempos" in war and peace: Temporary government buildings ; Forgotten fragments: Street furniture -- Appendix: Threatened Washington buildings.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0874744806
9780874744804
0874744792
9780874744798

Subject:

Lost architecture Washington (D.C.)
Buildings Washington (D.C.)
Architecture Mutilation, defacement, etc. Washington (D.C.)
Architecture Mutilation Washington (D.C.)
Monuments disparus Washington (D.C.)
Architecture Mutilation, defacement, etc.
Buildings.
Lost architecture.
Washington (D.C.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Washington (D.C.) Constructions.
Washington (D.C.)

Added entries:

Smithsonian Institution. Press, publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 88271
Call No.: 6562; ID:86-B17343
Status: Available