The Architecture of Baltimore: An Illustrated History

Format: Hardcover Language: English ISBN: 0801878063 ISBN13: 9780801878060 Release Date: July 2004 Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press Length: 416 Pages Weight: 0.45 lbs. Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.0" x 11.3" Age Range: 18 years and up Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher Winner of The 2004 Baltimore Book Festival Mayor's Award of Literary Excellence for Non-Fiction and a 2005 Heritage Book Award given by the Maryland Historical TrustFrom its trademark row houses to Benjamin Henry Latrobe's landmark Cathedral (now Basilica) of the Assumption, Baltimore architecture can rightly claim to be as eclectic, exciting, and inspiring as that of any American city. Many of its important buildings figure prominently in the oeuvres of leading American architects: Latrobe, Robert Mills, Maximilien Godefroy, Richard Upjohn, Stanford White, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe among them. Yet Baltimore's distinctive urban environment also owes much to the achievements of local talen