Marble Halls: Civic and Urban Architecture in the Gilded Age

by Wayne Craven

Marble Halls is about the great civic buildings that were designed in the style of Beaux-Arts classicism during the Gilded Age (1865-1918) and about the City Beautiful movement that was intended to improve the setting for the buildings and the urban environment for the people. The Industrial Revolution, which arrived belatedly in the United States, provided the wealth required for grand architecture, and the classical Beaux-style was imported from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0692884211
• ISBN13: 9780692884218
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Delaware Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 3.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.9" x 10.2"