Download or read book The Grand American Avenue, 1850-1920 written by Jan Cigliano and published by Pomegranate Communications. This book was released on 1994 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The individuals who transformed American cities and towns in the post-Civil War decades built their homes, with few exceptions, on America's grand avenues, such as New York's Fifth Avenue and Los Angeles's Wilshire Boulevard. This book offers essays on twelve eminent urban residential avenues, each contributed by a different scholar and accompanied by twenty to thirty duotone photographs. Originally published as the catalog for the exhibit at the Octagon Museum of the American Architectural Foundation.