Charles Bulfinch Architect and Citizen.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1925. First edition. Cloth over Boards. Quarto, pp. 295, indexed, illustrated with approximately 125 b/w photographs and architectural drawings. Ex-library markings. Very Good. Item #10778
Charles Bulfinch (1763-1844) was an early American architect, and regarded by many as the first American-born professional architect to practice. His works are notable for their simplicity, balance, and good taste, and as the origin of a distinctive Federal style of classical domes, columns and ornament that dominated early 19th-century American architecture. Some of the buildings attributed to him are the Massachusetts State House, completed in 1798, and the Old Connecticut State House, built in 1796. This biography was assembled with difficulty, as Bulfinch kept no diary, wrote few letters of any kind, and almost nothing of him was written by others before this book came out. The author search town and selectmen's records and many obscure papers to find material for this book.
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