Morningside Heights : a history of its architecture & development

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Label

Morningside Heights : a history of its architecture & development

Title remainder

a history of its architecture & development

Statement of responsibility

Andrew S. Dolkart

Creator

• Dolkart, Andrew

Subject

• Architecture -- New York (State) | New York
• Bouwkunst
• Buildings
• Electronic books
• History
• Morningside Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
• Morningside Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- History
• New York (N.Y.) -- Buildings, structures, etc
• New York (N.Y.) -- History
• New York (State) -- New York
• New York (State) -- New York | Morningside Heights
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology | Urban
• Stadsplanning
• Architecture

Genre

• History
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

The announcement during the final years of the nineteenth century that the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Columbia College, St. Luke's Hospital, Teachers College, and Barnard College would construct new complexes on Morningside Heights heralded the transformation of this geographically isolated area into "the Acropolis of New York." Over the next several decades, these institutions, as well as Union Theological Seminary, Jewish Theological Seminary, the Institute of Musical Art/Julliard School of Music, and Riverside Church created a neighborhood of spectacular institutional buildings. In this lavishly illustrated book, Andrew S. Dolkart explores the richly varied architecture and history of these complexes and of the surrounding residential neighborhood and thus reveals a fascinating chapter in the life of New York City

Member of

• Columbia history of urban life

Cataloging source

JSTOR

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

The Columbia history of urban life