Edward Shaw of Boston: Antebellum Architect and Author -- An Introduction, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 106, Part 2)

by James F. O'Gorman

This is the first in-depth study of the career of an important antebellum American architect and author. It is a contribution to the history of architecture and the history of the book. In the quarter century after 1830, Edward Shaw designed dozens of town houses in Boston, including the landmark Adam Wallace Thaxer, Jr. house on Beacon Hill (1836). Shaw also published five influential books on architecture and structural materials, one of them reprinted...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1606180622
• ISBN13: 9781606180624
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 172 Pages