Cast-Iron Architecture in America: The Significance of James Bogardus

by Margot Gayle and Carol Gayle

Nineteenth-century American inventor and entrepreneur James Bogardus was known for his unique grinding mill and other patented devices, but his enduring claim to fame is his cast-iron structures, forerunners of the modern skyscraper. A passionate advocate for iron's strength, economy, suitability for ornamentation, and fire resistance, he invented several new methods of construction; his buildings rose from New York to San Francisco and Havana. Modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393730158
• ISBN13: 9780393730159
• Release Date: March 1998
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.2" x 10.3"