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Baltimore's cast-iron buildings and architectural ironwork /

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0870334271
9780870334276

Subject(s): DDC classification:

721/.0447141/09752609034 20

LOC classification:

NA735.B3 B35 1991

Contents:

Introduction / by James D. Dilts -- The founder's art / by J. Scott Howell -- The Sun Iron Building / by David G. Wright -- The Peabody Library / by Phoebe B. Stanton -- Architectural ironwork / by Robert L. Alexander.

Summary: The Baltimore Region has had a long tradition in iron production, beginning with the colonial era, and continuing through the 1950s as Sparrows Point became the single largest steel complex in the the world. Baltimore's Cast-Iron Buildings provides the first integrated treatment of this facet of the Industrial Revolution in Baltimore. Joining a small number of similar volumes from Richmond, New York, and Portland, Oregon, it fills a gap in Baltimore's industrial architectural history. Prefabrication, mass production, standard components-all were employed in nineteenth-century Baltimore's cast-iron architecture and ornament. The remaining treasures of that period have a great deal to teach us about Victorian tastes and the evolution of American building technology.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Reference	Carleton University, AVRC	Richardson Collection - Non CIrculating - Call No. Accompanied by Red Dot	Open-stacks	NA735.B3 B35 1991 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001131

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Baltimore's cast-iron buildings and architectural ironwork /