Heaven on the Hudson : : Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park /

Heaven on the Hudson : : Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park / / Stephanie Azzarone.

A colorful tale of a singular New York City neighborhood and the personalities who make it special To outsiders or East Siders, Riverside Park and Riverside Drive may not have the star status of Fifth Avenue or Central Park. But at the city’s westernmost edge, there is a quiet and beauty like nowher...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2022
VerfasserIn:
Azzarone, Stephanie,
MitwirkendeR:
Rodriguez, Robert F.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 107 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction: My Riverside
  • THE HISTORY
  • 1 In the Beginning: Into the Woods
  • 2 Post–Civil War: Veterans and Visionaries
  • 3 Olmsted’s Plan: Parks for the People
  • 4 Expansion: Up and Over
  • 5 Getting Ready: Build It and They Will Come . . . Maybe
  • 6 Monumental Change: The City Beautiful Movement
  • 7 Custom of the City: Society Rules
  • 8 The Pioneers: Marvelous Mansions and Ravishing Row Houses
  • 9 Movin’ On Up: The Rise of the Apartment House
  • 10 Downhill Racing: Moses to the Rescue
  • 11 Decline and Fall: Gritty City
  • 12 Getting Better: The 1980s until Today
  • THE SIGHTS
  • 13 The Seductive Seventies
  • 14 The Elegant Eighties
  • 15 The Very Nice Nineties
  • 16 The Happy Hundreds, Part 1: 100th–116th Streets
  • 17 The Happy Hundreds, Part 2: 117th–129th Streets
  • 18 The Rest
  • 19 The Final Chapter: And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going
  • GLOSSARY: ARCHITECTURAL TERMS CHEAT SHEET
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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