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The Merritt Parkway, on the National Register of Historic Places, connects Connecticut's Fairfield County with New York State. This work traces its history from proposals and design to completion in 1940, exploring its routeing, its 68 bridges, its art deco style and scandal-filled history.
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The Merritt Parkway
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The Merritt Parkway
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Seller: H&S, Graham, WA, U.S.A.
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Nonfiction:1920's-1940's,"One can build a concrete highway anywhere, but the Merritt parkway is different. More than any 'futurama' at the World's Fair,.it shows what the highway of the future really should look like" *DJ-slight shelf wear. Seller Inventory # ABE-1763663076917
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The Merritt Parkway
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Hardcover. Second Printing. Fine in bright yellow cloth covered boards with black text on the spine. A small quarto measuring 9 1/2"by 8 1/2". In a fine, unclipped dust jacket. 135 pages including an index, chapter notes and text. Illustrated throughout with both color and black and white photographs. "The Merritt Parkway, built in the 1930's to connect Connecticut's Fairfield County with New York State, was one of the earliest attempts to cope with America's new obsession with the automobile. This book traces the history of the Merritt Parkway from the proposals for its construction and design in the early 1920's to its triumphant completion in 1940. .it is no only a picturesque tour of a renowned Connecticut landmark, but is also an appraisal of a major contribution to the built environment - one recently placed on the National Register of Historic Places." (from jacket flap). Seller Inventory # TB22834
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hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Black & white and color illustrations throughout. 135 pages. Square 4to, yellow cloth, pictorial d.w. New Haven: Yale University Press, (1993). A fine copy in a fine dust wrapper. Seller Inventory # 323010
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The Merritt Parkway
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ISBN 10: 0300053797
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