Crystal Palaces, American Garden Conservatories
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: October 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781568982427
Subjects: Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc; Domestic; Architecture; USA; U.S. Architecture - General; Architecture / General; Crystal Palaces; Garden Conservatories; Conservatories; United States
First sentence: Although steel was readily available as a building material by the 1870s, San Francisco's conservatory was constructed entirely of wood, from the load-bearing, structural elements to the exterior decorative scrollwork.