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Cherry Creek Gothic: Victorian Architecture in Denver by Sandra Dallas (English)
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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- ISBN-13
- 9780806146232
- UPC
- Does not apply
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Cherry Creek Gothic: Victorian Architecture in Denver
- Item Height
- 229mm
- Publisher
- University of Oklahoma Press
- Topic
- Local History, Travel Guide, History
- Item Width
- 152mm
- Item Weight
- 427g
- Number of Pages
- 308 Pages
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Almost every citizen is laudably ambitious to build a house unlike that of his neighbor, wrote an observer in early Denver, and is more desirous that it shall have some novel feature than that it shall be surpassingly beautiful. This history of early Denver has over two hundred illustrations of buildings designed by nouveaux riches miners and frontier businessmen who had more money and fanciful imagination than taste. There is also a picture map of the business district in 1892 that shows where many of these extraordinary structures stood. Victoriana was in bloom, and architectural purity was scorned. Greek revivals had mansard roofs, Gothic castles had Italian tops, turrets and minarets sprouted in unlikely places, and everything was trimmed or fenced with cast iron lace. Gingerbread store fronts, crenelated church towers, plushy lavish hotels, pompous homes, and glittering gambling houses and brothels gave the Queen City of the Plains an outlandish, distinct style that came to be known as Cherry Creek Gothic, from the creek that bisects the area. Denver residents were as gaudy and unpredictable as the buildings they erected. The unsinkable Mrs. J. J. (Molly) Brown built the fantastic House of Lions, an architect's nightmare guarded by two Sphinx-headed lions, in order to break into Denver society. Madam Jennie Rogers and Madam Mattie Silks, rivals for the title of queen of the demimonde, each had her turn reigning over the famous House of Mirrors. H. A. W. Tabor, the bonanza king whose scandalous love affair with Baby Doe cost him a political career, gave Denver a business block and an opera house that attracted such performers as Oscar Wilde and Sarah Bernhardt. This companion volume to the author's earlier work on Colorado hotels, No More Than Five in a Bed, is written with humor and understanding for the famous and the infamous who saw their dreams of wealth and splendor fulfilled in their city. It will appeal not only to students of architecture but to every one interested in the flamboyant personalities of the times.
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Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN-13
9780806146232
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Book Title
Cherry Creek Gothic: Victorian Architecture in Denver
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Local History, Travel Guide, History
Publication Year
2014
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
308 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
427g
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United States
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