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December, 1988

ISBN (paper): 

978-0-87023-649-5

Out of print

Built in Boston

City and Suburb, 1800-1950

A greatly expanded edition of a classic work

Douglass Shand-Tucci

Originally published in 1978 and reissued in paperback in 1988, Built in Boston has been hailed as the definitive work on the architectural history of the city and its suburbs. For this revised edition, Douglass Shand-Tucci has written three substantial new chapters, carrying the story of Boston's built environment forward from 1950 to the present and including the first complete discussion of Frank Lloyd Wright's important but long ignored Boston work. The book is illustrated with over 3000 drawings, maps, and photographs, including 9 color plates.Originally published in 1978 and reissued in paperback in 1988, Built in Boston has been hailed as the definitive work on the architectural history of the city and its suburbs. For this revised edition, Douglass Shand-Tucci has written three substantial new chapters, carrying the story of Boston's built environment forward from 1950 to the present and including the first complete discussion of Frank Lloyd Wright's important but long ignored Boston work. The book is illustrated with over 3000 drawings, maps, and photographs, including 9 color plates.

"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, reviewing a previous edition or volume

"If you're looking for a general history of local architecture, one that explains when and why the face of the city has changed over time, the one to buy is Built in Boston....The text is clearly written and the choice of illustrations, which include floor plans, photographs, and architects' renderings, is exemplary."—Boston Phoenix, reviewing a previous edition or volume

"Probably the best and most comprehensive general book that has ever been written about architecture in Boston."—Edward Wagenknecht, reviewing a previous edition or volume

Douglass Shand-Tucci is a historian of American art and architecture and New England studies. His most recent book, The Art of Scandal: The Life and Times of Isabella Stewart Gardner (1997) has been featured on the front cover of the New York Times Book Review and as an editor's choice on the Times's best-seller list.