Building Harrisburg
Subtitle: the architects & builders, 1719-1941
By: Ken Frew with a foreword by Michael Barton; published by the Historical Society of Dauphin County and Historic Harrisburg Association
Contributors: Barton, Michael, 1943-; Dauphin County Historical Society (Dauphin County, Pa.); Historic Harrisburg Association
Publisher: Historical Society of Dauphin County; Historic Harrisburg Association
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Harrisburg, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780615327662
Subjects: Historic buildings; Pictorial works; Architects; Architecture; History; Buildings, structures
Other titles: Building Harrisburg the architects and builders, 1719-1941
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-351) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / Michael Barton; title: Preface / Ken Frew; title: Introduction; title: Ch. 1: Beginnings; title: Ch. 2: Under county rule; title: Ch. 3: From across the water; title: Ch. 4: The "Union" Church dissolves; title: Ch. 5: The red brick Capitol; title: Ch. 6: Practical men; title: Ch. 7: Planing mills hold their own; title: Ch. 8: Luther M. Simon: What a little book learning will do; title: Ch. 9: Everyone's an architect; title: Ch. 10: The fashionable city; title: Ch. 11: Smith & Warner: Style merchants; title: Ch. 12: Foose & Lloyd: Local boys make good; title: Ch. 13: Thunder with rain; title: Ch. 14: Miller I. Kast: Reshaper of his profession; title: Ch. 15: The tinderbox; title: Ch. 16: Boom town; title: Ch. 17: Aiming for the stars; title: Ch. 18: Thomas H. Hamilton: Architect, prohibitionist; title: Ch. 19: Charles Howard Lloyd: Call me "city architect"; title: Ch. 20: A river of problems; title: Ch. 21: Architecture on trial; title: Ch. 22: A city rising: Tiny waves of innovation; title: Ch. 23: War stories; title: Ch. 24: Architects get registered: The profession tightens up; title: Ch. 25: Lawrie & Lappley: Marking time; title: Ch. 26: Lawrie & Green: The dynamic duo; title: Ch. 27. Clayton J. Lappley and the rise of collegiate Gothic; title: Ch. 28: A matter of reputation: Harrisburg's great high school controversy; title: Ch. 29: Frank Gordon Fahnestock, Jr.: A decade of extravagance; title: Ch. 30: Calm before the storm; title: Ch. 31: James W. Minick: The modern movement; title: Ch. 32: Architecture goes bust; title: Ch. 33: An uncertain future; title: Ch. 34: The New Deal; title: Ch. 35: Post-Depression woes; title: Ch. 36: The last days of historicism; title: Epilogue; title: Bibliography; title: Chapter notes; title: Charles Howard Lloyd inventory; title: Index; title: Photographs & images.