Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City

Schlichting, Kurt C.

ISBN 10: 0801865107 / ISBN 13: 9780801865107

Published by Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore & London, 2001

About this Item

Short quarto, xvi + 243 pp., endpapers, maps, b/w photos & illus., tables, notes, index. The history of this spectacular building completed in 1913. Gray cloth bound hardcover book in fine cond., d/w in fine cond.

Seller Inventory # 009621

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore & London
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801865107
• ISBN 13: 9780801865107
• Binding: Cloth
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

About this title

Synopsis

More than a history of a train station--the story of a city and an age, as reflected in a building aptly described as a secular cathedral.

About the Author

Kurt C. Schlichting is a professor of sociology and the E. Gerald Corrigan '63 Chair in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Fairfield University. His book Grand Central Terminal: Railroads, Engineering, and Architecture in New York City, also published by Johns Hopkins, won the Professional/Scholarly Publishing Award in Architecture from the Association of American Publishers.