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Gail Fenske

The Skyscraper and the City

The Woolworth Building and the Making of Modern New York

352 pages, 12 color plates, 200 halftones  8-1/2 x 11  © 2008

Cloth $65.00

ISBN: 9780226241418   Published August 2008

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
 
Chapter 1  Woolworth’s Skyscraper
Chapter 2  Woolworth, Modernity, and the City
Chapter 3  Gilbert’s Beaux-Arts Skyscrapers
Chapter 4  Designing the Woolworth Building
Chapter 5  A Record-Breaking Feat of Modern Construction
Chapter 6  The Skyscraper as a “City”
Chapter 7  The Woolworth Building and Modern New York 
 
Appendix 1  F. W. Woolworth Company Stores, 1910
Appendix 2  F. W. Woolworth Company Stores, 1912
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Awards
  • PROSE Book Award Honorable Mention
  • New York City Book Award
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