boston bohemia 1881 1900 volume one of ralph adams cram life and architectu

Very good in Good jacket The format is approximately 7.125 inches by 9.5 inches. xxi, [1], 569, [1] pages. Illustrations. Chapter Notes. The Works of Ralph Adams Cram 1882-1900. Illustration Sources. Index. DJ has a tear at the top front near the spine. This is a large and heavy book and if sent outside of the United States will require additional shipping charges. The initial volume of a two-volume biography of Ralph Adams Cram (1863-1942), considered by many as America's greatest church architect. [It is not clear that the planned Volume Two American Gothic was ever completed]. Volume 1 focuses on Cram's early architectural and literary work within the context of Boston's little known avant-garde fin-de-siecle bohemia in which Cram figured prominently, as an art critic, poet, editor and designer. Includes 114 b & w figures. Douglass Shand-Tucci became one of the 20th century's leading authorities on Boston architecture and history. A graduate of Harvard College, he worked as a journalist for the Boston Phoenix and taught at Boston Architectural College and MIT. He is best known for his biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner and for his studies of Boston architecture, including his 1978 book "Built in Boston, " which includes a definitive history of Dorchester's signature housing stock, the three-decker. His Dorchester roots shone through in other, more-focused studies, including "Dorchester: The Second Settlement (1875-1925) and "Church Building in Boston 1720-1970". He also published a study of " The Gothic Churches of Dorchester" in 1974, as well as a guide to Ashmont Hill, Carruth Street, and Peabody Square. Ralph Adams Cram (December 16, 1863-September 22, 1942) was a prolific and influential American architect of collegiate and ecclesiastical buildings, often in the Gothic Revival style. Cram & Ferguson and Cram, Goodhue & Ferguson are partnerships in which he worked. Cram was a fellow of the American Institute of Architects. At age 18, Cram moved to Boston in 1

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