Lowe, David Garrard — Stanford White's New York

New York, Doubleday, 1992. Hardcover. BW illustrated wraps. xi, 337 pp. Profusely illustrated in bw. Part architectural retrospective, part biography, and part social history, this book is a fascinating evocation of White's life and times, and a splendid album of New York's most elegantly beautiful era. Contents as follows: Born in New York -- Apprenticed to Richardson -- Paris bound -- McKim, Mead & white -- Bessie Smith of Smithtown -- A door thrown open -- The garden -- Architect to Clubland -- From Square to Square -- Summer palaces and country cottages -- Splendid domesticity in Gotham -- The new Fifth Avenue -- Dynamos earthly and celestial -- Rendezvous. VG/VG dustjacket is in mylar protection .