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Author_Carol Gayle
Author_Margot Gayle
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393730159
- Weight: 1059g
- Dimensions: 211 x 264mm
- Publication Date: 20 May 1998
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Nineteenth-century American inventor and entrepreneur James Bogardus was known for his unique grinding mill and other patented devices, but his enduring claim to fame is his cast-iron structures, forerunners of the modern skyscraper. A passionate advocate for iron's strength, economy, suitability for ornamentation, and fire resistance, he invented several new methods of construction; his buildings rose from New York to San Francisco and Havana. Modern interest in Bogardus stems from the historic preservation movement; his four surviving buildings, in New York, are recognized landmarks.
Carol Gayle teaches history at Lake Forest College, Illinois. Margot Gayle, a nationally known authority on cast-iron architecture, lives in New York City.
