Houses of Boston's Back Bay: Architectural History, 1840-1917 - Softcover

Bunting, B

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674409019 ISBN 13: 9780674409019

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1967

Synopsis

With 250 illustrations to accompany his text, Bainbridge Bunting focuses on a significant architectural form - the town house - and chronicles its development throughout the period of Back Bay's greatest growth.

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Review:

This truly fascinating book is a detailed chronicle of a district rich in meaning for architect, planner, historian, sociologist and lover of Americana ... With it all, insights are gained into the mores of those marvelous Bostonians and their equally marvelous city. American Institute of Architects Journal Here is an excellent book. Although parts of residential Back Bay are now a century old, surprisingly little has been written about this brightest jewel in Boston's crown. So the book is twice welcome. Mr. Bunting...writes with authority yet with a clarity of style that makes for delightful reading. -- Edgar Packard Dean New England Quarterly Bunting has made a distinguished contribution to cultural history in his perceptive use of domestic architecture to reflect and interpret the customs, ideas, and interests of an American generation in a setting peculiarly favorable for such a study. -- Madeleine Hook Rice Journal of American History An immensely detailed but never tedious account of the development of a district celebrated for the intellectual and financial eminence of its inhabitants. Royal Institute of British Architects

From the Back Cover:

This superbly illustrated, informative, and engaging book records the development of Boston's Back Bay during the period of its greatest growth.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1967
• ISBN 10: 0674409019
• ISBN 13: 9780674409019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 512