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Graceland Cemetery : a design history / Christopher Vernon.
Fine Arts Library F548.612.G72 V47 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vernon, Christopher, 1964-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Graceland Cemetery (Chicago, Ill.).
- Cemeteries--Illinois--Chicago--Designs and plans.
- Cemeteries.
- Illinois--Chicago.
- Chicago (Ill.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- Chicago (Ill.).
- Genre:
- Architectural drawings.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 254 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press : In association with Library of American Landscape History, [2011]
- Summary:
- The story of one of Chicagos most celebrated landscapes
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Thomas Barbour Bryan and the genesis of Graceland
- The first designers : Swain Nelson and William Saunders
- The earliest designs
- A decade of expansion
- Bryan Lathrop and William Le Baron Jenney
- Final expansion
- The era of Bryan Lathrop and O.C. Simonds
- Epilogue
- Afterword / Ted Wolff.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781558499263
- 1558499261
- OCLC:
- 727658528
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