Monuments to money : the architecture of American banks Charles Belfoure

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Belfoure, Charles, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bank buildings--United States.

Bank buildings.

Physical Description:

ix, 348 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., c2005.

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 (p. 329-331) and index.

Local Notes:

HSP credit line - graphic, Bank of Philadelphia, 1808, Society Print Collection; Bank of Pennsylvania Floor Plan, 1798-1800 and Bank of Pennsylvania, section 1798-1800 (Latrobe Bd 615 L354/Bc 615 L364j).

ISBN:

078642060X (illustrated case binding : alk. paper)

OCLC:

60826456