Title & Author:

The architecture of Baltimore : an illustrated history / edited by Mary Ellen Hayward and Frank R. Shivers, Jr. ; with a foreword by Richard Hubbard Howland, contributions from Robert L. Alexander [and others].

Publication:

Description:

xi, 397 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Georgian Baltimore, 1752-1790. Beginnings ; Georgian taste ; Early country houses ; Public houses, market, and courthouse ; Churches ; Exemplars: St. Paul's Rectory and Hampton Hall -- 2. Federal designs, town and country, 1789-1819. Craftsmen and country sites ; Town houses ; Row houses ; Churches and public buildings -- 3. Monumental Baltimore, 1806-1831. Basilica and chapel ; Forays ; Monuments ; Monumental churches ; Masterly houses ; The builder as architect: Robert Cary Long Sr. ; Understudy: William F. Small -- 4. The Reign of the Romantics, 1829-1878. Revivals: Greek and Gothic ; The architect as historian: Robert Cary Long Jr. ; Residential architecture: Greek interpretations ; Residential architecture: Italianate interpretations ; Other Romantic forms of the 1850s ; The Grammar of ornament.
5. Industrial Designs, 1840-1917. Mills in the valleys ; Railroads discover art ; Warehouses, waterside and railside ; Canning Chesapeake harvests ; Architectural fashions for the garment industry ; Old-country brewing palaces ; Structures for street railways -- 6. Eclectic city, 1865-1904. Second Empire tastes ; Fresh ideas, new professionals ; High Victorian Gothic and the Picturesque ; Picturesque and Queen Anne housing ; A visit from McKim, Meade, & White ; Publicly Romanesque ; Late Picturesque houses ; Returning to Renaissance roots ; Business, technology, taste ; Beaux-Arts Classicism ; Planning the bucolic: city beautiful and suburbia -- 7. Modernism, modernists, and modernity, 1904-1955. "Dov'era e com'era": building after the fire ; Municipal art, parks, and verdant suburbs ; The Georgian Revival and Laurence Hall Fowler ; Apartments, row houses, and "architectural democracy" ; That's entertainment ; The Bauhaus style and Alexander Cochran -- 8. Building a Renaissance, 1945-2000. Inventing Charles Center ; Renovating the Inner Harbor ; Beyond downtown ; Persistent conservatism ; Beyond the plan ; Camden Yards.

Summary:

"The Architecture of Baltimore provides a comprehensive, narrative account of the city's rich architectural heritage, both lost and extant. The volume's editors and contributors - a distinguished group of scholars, writers, and critics - provide fresh insights into the city's architectural history, from its founding to the present. The volume opens with a look at the eighteenth century Georgian buildings that reflect the grandeur of the style, goes on to the prosperous port city's Federal-period achievements, including many country houses with their delicate details, then proceeds to its monumental examples of early-nineteenth-century American neoclassical design.
Romantic stylings follow excursions into the Greek and Gothic Revivals, the rise of the popular Italianate-mode for town and country houses : fine examples of soaring church spires; public spaces like the Peabody Library, and masterpieces of ornamented dignity."
"Later in the nineteenth century, a picturesque eclecticism produced such monuments as the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad's Mount Royal station as well as illustrative changes to the city's versatile row houses. Contributors discuss the evolution of industrial buildings and the growth of the city's architectural profession. The architecture of Baltimore also addresses the arrival of modernism and postmodernism, examines the origins and challenges of historic preservation, and assesses the Baltimore renaissance of the period 1955-2000, which saw and construction of Charles Center, Harborplace, and the sports complex at Camden Yards."
"Illustrated with nearly 600 photographs, architectural plans, maps, and details, this impressive work of scholarship also offers a narrative of the history of Baltimore itself - its men and women of all stations, its taste and traditional preferences, its good choices and lamentable ones, and its built environment as a social and cultural chronicle."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents
Contributor biographical information
Publisher description

ISBN:

0801878063 (acid-free paper)
9780801878060 (acid-free paper)

Subject:

Architecture Maryland Baltimore.
Architecture, Domestic Maryland Baltimore.
Historic buildings Maryland Baltimore.
Architecture domestique Maryland Baltimore.
Monuments historiques Maryland Baltimore.
Architecture
Architecture, Domestic
Buildings
Historic buildings
Architecture américaine.
Architecture domestique.
Monument historique.
Baltimore (Md.) Buildings, structures, etc.
Baltimore (Mar.) Constructions.
Maryland Baltimore
Baltimore (Mar.)

Form/genre:

Books.

Added entries:

Hayward, Mary Ellen.
Shivers, Frank R., 1924-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 231793
Call No.: NA735.B3 A7 2004
Status: Available