The row house reborn
Subtitle: architecture and neighborhoods in New York City, 1908-1929
By: Andrew Scott Dolkart.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780801891588
Subjects: Row houses -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Housing rehabilitation -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century; Architecture, Domestic -- New York (State) -- New York; Neighborhoods -- New York (State) -- New York; New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
Description: "The Row House Reborn will interest architectural and urban historians, as well as general readers curious about New York City architecture and neighbourhood development."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: Ch. 1. The fall and rise of the New York row house; title: Ch. 2. Reconceiving the row house : Frederick J. Sterner and the transformation of the nineteenth-century New York row house; title: Ch. 3. Recreating a neighborhood : New York's social elite move east; title: Ch. 4. The real estate of Bohemia : redesigning Greenwich Village; title: Epilogue; title: Notes; title: Index.