Building Victorian Boston: The Architecture of Gridley J.F. Bryant

by Roger G. Reed

Book Overview

Much of Boston's rich heritage of Victorian buildings dates from the mid-nineteenth century when Gridley James Fox Bryant (1816-1899) dominated the profession of architecture in the city. At that time, Boston was undergoing a transformation from a quaint post-colonial town to a rapidly expanding Victorian metropolis. Bryant led this transformation, providing an important link between the earlier architecture of Charles Bulfinch and Alexander Parris...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 155849555X
• ISBN13: 9781558495555
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.3" x 10.3"