Rise of the New York Skyscraper
Subtitle: 1865-1913
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: May 11, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780300077391
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; Architecture Of Specific Structures; Architecture; USA; U.S. Architecture - General; Architecture / General; History - General
First sentence: New York City has been the economic capital of the United States since about 1820, but only in the 1850s did it emerge as the nation's preeminent city.