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Antiquity in Gotham : the ancient architecture of New York City / Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Macaulay-Lewis, Elizabeth, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--New York (State)--New York--History.
- Architecture.
- Neoclassicism (Architecture)--New York (State)--New York.
- Neoclassicism (Architecture).
- Architecture--Roman influences.
- History.
- New York (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
- New York (N.Y.).
- National Book Committee.
- New York (State)--New York.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 283 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Ancient architecture of New York City
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2021.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction: from the Appian Way to Broadway
- Why antiquity? Methodologies, evidence, and themes: archaeology, reception studies, and the neo-antique
- Herculean efforts: New York City's infrastructure. The grid
- Rivaling Rome and the Sphinx: The Croton Aqueduct and Murray Hill Distributing Reservoir
- Bridging the East River in style: The Manhattan Bridge
- Train stations: appropriating the colonnades and baths of imperial Rome
- The genius of architecture: ancient muses and modern forms. The Parthenon on Wall Street: The US Custom House
- Brooklyn Borough Hall, the Manhattan Municipal Building, and Foley Square
- The tombs
- Treasuries of old and treasuries of new. Banks
- Ware houses and commercial lofts
- The first and second merchants' exchanges
- The New York Stock Exchange
- Skyscrapers
- Modernism and its debt to classical architecture: The Seagram Building
- Modern Museions. The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
- Temples to monkeys, birds, and lions: The architecture of the New York Zoological Society
- The New York State memorial to Theodore Roosevelt at the American Museum of Natural History
- Pantheons and a stadium: The architecture of New York's universities
- Public libraries
- Togas at home. Domestic architecture and the Greek revival style in New York City
- The Tredwell Home
- Residences in New York City after the Civil War
- Pompeian rooms in New York City
- The mansion and Greco-Pompeian music room of Henry G. Marquand
- Aspirational antiquity: décor and design for the middle classes
- Apartment buildings: classical forms in the sky
- dining like Nero. The development of the lobster palaces
- Murray's Roman gardens
- The Café de l'Opéra
- To be buried like a pharaoh. New York's cemeteries before 1838
- Green-Wood and Woodlawn
- Classical temples to New York's emperors and gods
- Obelisks, pyramids, temples, and a baroque kiosk
- Heroic New Yorkers. Arches to Washington
- The Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch, Grand Army Plaza
- The column to Columbus
- Monuments in early twentieth-century New York
- Eclectic antiquity. Snug Harbor and Grecian temple churches
- Bathing culture in New York City
- Fraternal organizations: the Grand Masonic Lodge and the Pythian Temple
- Theaters
- Reflections: useable pasts and neo-antique futures.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Gemmill Family Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780823293858
- 0823293858
- Publisher Number:
- 99990306310
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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