Bulfinch's Boston, 1787-1817 /

By:

Kirker, Harold

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1964Description: ix, 305 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portrait ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

974.46

LOC classification:

F73.44 .K5

Summary: "The Boston to which Charles Bulfinch returned in 1787 was still very much a colonial town. After a year and a half traveling between London, Paris and Rome, it must have seemed to him incredibly small and provincial. By Comparison the older cities of Europe were certainly overwhelming. London in particular made a tremendous impression upon the young Bostonian. Her Neo-Classical architecture, then almost unknown in the New World, captured his imagination and burst through his notebooks. He was never again free from these memories . IN a Quiet persistent way they changed his life... they were the stuff of his dream for rebuilding Boston in the image of mid-Georgian England...." - From the Jacket

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	F73.44 .K5 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Not for loan		16055001230

Maps on lining papers.

Includes index.

Signed on lining page "Acquired from Mr. Meeks 16 july 1965"

Bibliography: pages 275-298.

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