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Built in Boston: City and Suburb, 1800-1950

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So brimful of scholarship and eloquence it challenges comparison with those works on a level with Walter Muir Whitehill, David McCord, and Samuel Eliot Morison. . . . A classic. -- Robert Taylor, Boston Globe

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Genres: Art & Design, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 720.9744 — Arts & recreation Architecture Architecture History, geographic treatment, biography North America Northeastern U.S. Massachusetts
LCC: NA735 .B7 .T8 — Fine Arts 2599.5-2599.9 Architectural criticism Architecture History

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Published: 1978
Genres: Art & Design, Nonfiction, History, General Nonfiction
DDC/MDS: 720.9744
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