A visual feast of images chronicling the history and stylistic character of one of the nation's most iconic building types. Almost overnight railway lines sprawled across the United States, quickly assuming a key role in America's rapid growth and development. Linking these lines that crisscrossed the map werethe stations themselves, the very centrepieces—physical and metaphorical—of civic and cultural life in America. They were backdrops to commonplace comings and goings as well as public lecturers and evangelists, rallies and wartime troop movement; outposts of Western settlement; staging grounds for presidentialwhistle-stop tours; and destinations for a new class of tourists that arose at the turn of the twentieth century. Reflecting a vast range of shapes, stylesand sizes, their architectural diversity defined them nearly as much as theirhallowed place in American history.
- ISBN: 978-0-393-73164-4
- Editorial: W.W. Norton
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 31/01/2012
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés