Charles Bulfinch (1763-1844), son of a wealthy Boston family, exerted a wide influence on architecture in New England, where his version of the Adam style bacame characteristic of the early Republican period. As architect and Boston selectman, he was responsible for the great development of Old Boston. Later he was appointed for the final stages of the Capitol in Washington. In this fully illustrated record of commissions, Harold Kirker sets forth the career of this native-born American architect.
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American architecture...books...are often eye-candy, confected by journalists without analysis or insight. An occasional exception is a real work of history such as Harold Kirker's The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch...Kirker's scholarly effort provides the essential ground-work for an understanding of how American architecture has developed. Through Bulfinch (1763-1844) we can see how an American-born architect dealt with his British legacy. (Anthony Alofsin Times Literary Supplement )
The photographs of surviving Bulfinch buildings by David Hayes...are excellent...This is a useful and highly welcome study that contains nearly everything that we are likely to be able to know, short of a miracle, about the architecture of Charles Bulfinch. (New England Quarterly )
The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch is the result of meticulous historical research, and Kirker deserves praise for having dug up and organized a great deal of information in a most handsome, well-illustrated [book]...[It] will supplant all previous studies as the basic work on Bulfinch. (Technology and Culture )
Bulfinch, who changed from gentleman-architect to professional because of economic necessity, had a long and important life in both the official and the private architectural annals of the early years of our country. The professional side of that life is here set forth with admirable clarity. (Virginia Quarterly Review )
The photographs of surviving Bulfinch buildings by David Hayes...are excellent...This is a useful and highly welcome study that contains nearly everything that we are likely to be able to know, short of a miracle, about the architecture of Charles Bulfinch. (New England Quarterly )
The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch is the result of meticulous historical research, and Kirker deserves praise for having dug up and organized a great deal of information in a most handsome, well-illustrated [book]...[It] will supplant all previous studies as the basic work on Bulfinch. (Technology and Culture )
Bulfinch, who changed from gentleman-architect to professional because of economic necessity, had a long and important life in both the official and the private architectural annals of the early years of our country. The professional side of that life is here set forth with admirable clarity. (Virginia Quarterly Review )
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Harold Kirker is Professor of History, Emeritus, University of California at Santa Barbara.
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A MUST READ FOR BOSTONIANS,
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This is a must read for all people who is interested in the Architecture of famed Charles Bulfinch and history of Boston. Book basically covers one by one each major works of Charles Bulfinch in Boston, New england and other parts of the country. It is combination of History and Architecture. Each building is described and most of the time a picture is provided. The scope is mostly Historical description of the buildings, locations and their style. It is not an Architectural analysis of his works showing details of each component but paralels are given from similar structures in England.If you happen to visit Boston and see buildings designed by Bulfinch you start to see things behind the facade and notice any changes that he did to originial buildings or others did to his buildings.
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This is a terrific, straight-forward survey of all of Bulfinch's works in chronological order. It also features a something rare in books about architecture: good writing.
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