Houses of Boston's Back Bay: An Architectural History, 1840-1917

by Bainbridge Bunting

Book Overview

With 250 illustrations to accompany his text, Bainbridge Bunting focuses on a significant architectural form - the town house - and chronicles its development throughout the period of Back Bay's greatest growth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674409019
• ISBN13: 9780674409019
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Belknap Press
• Length: 494 Pages
• Weight: 2.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Definitive Study of Residential Houses

Bunting's book is definitive, scholarly yet readable. He defines various architectural features, as well as outlining technological and cost elements, of representative 'mansions/townhouses' built in post civil war Boston. It is fascinating. I found it best read through once for the total picture then used as a selective reference (for example: the intersection of the changes in heating technology on design). Photos are provided to illustrate points made.