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Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900: Ralph Adams Cram--Life and Architecture - Hardcover

Shand-Tucci, Douglass; Cram, Ralph Adams

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9780870239205: Boston Bohemia, 1881-1900: Ralph Adams Cram--Life and Architecture
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0870239201 ISBN 13: 9780870239205
Publisher: Univ of Massachusetts Pr, 1995

Synopsis

The first volume of a two-volume biography of Cram (1863-1942), America's greatest church architect. Volume 1 focuses on Cram's early architectural and literary work within the context of America's earliest avant-garde Boston's little known fin-de-siFcle bohemia in which Cram figured as leader, editor, art critic, poet, and designer. Includes 114 b&w figures but no glossy plates. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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About the Author

Douglass Shand-Tucci has taught architectural history at M.I.T. and been senior affiliate in the history of architecture in Eliot House, Harvard University.

Reviews

In the early 20th century, the firm of Cram, Goodhue and Ferguson established themselves as the leading church architects in the United States and as the foremost proponents of the Eclectic Gothic style. Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942), a prolific writer and speaker-as well as an arch medievalist-wrote 24 books. He was also an architect for New York's Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine from 1911 to 1942. The first volume of this monumental biography (the second volume, American Gothic, is in progress) focuses on Cram's early architectural and literary efforts. Historian Shand-Tucci's (Built in Boston, 1978) broad cultural analysis delves extensively into Beacon Hill's fin-de-siecle bohemian gay subculture. Engagingly written and brimming with research, facts, anecdotes, and minutiae, this work is most at home in American architecture or East Coast cultural life and history collections.
Russell T. Clement, Brigham Young Univ. Lib., Provo, Ut.
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Publisher
Univ of Massachusetts Pr
Publication date
1995
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0870239201
ISBN 13 
9780870239205
Binding
Hardcover
Number of pages
569
Rating
  • 3.78 out of 5 stars
    9 ratings by Goodreads