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Monuments to money : the architecture of American banks / Charles Belfoure.
Fine Arts Library NA6241 .B45 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Belfoure, Charles, 1954-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bank buildings--United States.
- Bank buildings.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 348 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2005]
- Summary:
- "With more than 200 photographs and illustrations, this work studies the evolution of American bank architecture from 1781 to new banks of the present day. It explores how and why the classically inspired structures built in late 18th century America, embodying strength and trust, evolved into the essentially anonymous bank buildings of today"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Early republic: neo-classicism and the federal style
- Jacksonian age: the Greek revival
- Gilded age: Victorian eclecticism
- Turn of the century: the classical revival
- Early moderns: Sullivan and the Prairie School
- Great depression: modern classicism
- Postwar prosperity: modernism
- Twenty-first century: financial department stores
- New uses for banks.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-331) and index.
- ISBN:
- 078642060X
- OCLC:
- 60826456
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