Year-Book of the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1908
Brooklyn Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, 1908. Hardcover. Contributions to this AIA yearbook represent some of the major American architectural firms of the period: McKim, Mead & White; George B. Post & Sons; Cass Gilbert (architect of the Woolworth Building and the U.S. Supreme Court); Wilson Eyre; Heins & La Farge (designers of the original Cathedral of St. John the Divine and the first IRT subway stations); Trowbridge & Livingston; Palmer & Hornbostel; Hoppin & Koen; and Howells & Stokes, among many others. Entries cover municipal buildings, U.S. post offices, university buildings (Western University of Pennsylvania, Lehigh, Rutgers), country houses, churches, and competition designs, including a pavilion commissioned for William Randolph Hearst. Good+. Item #9723
10⅝ x 8 inches. 106, [40] pp. Rebacked in black cloth over the original paper-covered boards, with new endpapers; richly illustrated throughout with half-tone reproductions of elevations, plans, sectional views, and photographic scenes. Boards show wear and soiling; internally clean and unmarked. A well-used working copy, now structurally sound.
Price: $155.00