Fifth Avenue by Mosette Broderick - 9781739164027

Fifth AvenueArchitecture and Society: History of America's Street of Dreams\nAuthor(s): Mosette Broderick\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Unicorn Publishing Group, United Kingdom\nImprint: Unicorn Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781739164027, 978-1739164027\nSynopsis\nNew Yorks Fifth Avenue, Americas Street of Dreams is one of the most remarkable thoroughfares in the world. Shown on the Commissioners map of 1807 emerging from a country road, then in the proposed grid plan of 1811 as one of the major boulevards, \nFifth Avenue by the end of the century was synonymous with a lavish fashionable life, grand mansions, and services catering to the wealthy.\nAbove Washington Square, in the 1840s and 50s, mainly speculative brownstone rowhouses marched steadily northwards.\nThe merchants of the port, the social fabric of the City, after the Civil War shunned the more aggressive arrivistes such as \nAlva Vanderbilt and Marietta Stevens who employed European influenced architects and decorators to buil.