Oberlin Architecture, College and Town: A Guide to its Social History by Blodgett, Geoffrey

Oberlin Architecture, College and Town: A Guide to its Social History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780873383097)

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Oberlin Architecture, College and Town: A Guide to its Social History by Blodgett, Geoffrey

Oberlin Architecture, College and Town: A Guide to its Social History

$29.95
Oberlin Architecture, College and Town: A Guide to its Social History by Blodgett, Geoffrey

Oberlin Architecture, College and Town: A Guide to its Social History

$29.95
Format: Paperback
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This illustrated guide to the architecture of Oberlin, Ohio, mixes the remarkable social history of college and town with architectural commentary about one hundred thirty-two buildings built between 1837 and 1977. The result is a unique record of the ways in which the people of one Midwestern college town organized and housed their lives over the past one hundred fifty years, from the layout of the village square in 1833 to distinguished samples from the work of such twentieth-century architects as Cass Gilbert, Frank Lloyd Wright, Wallace Harrison, Minoru Yamasaki, Hugh Stubbins and Robert Venturi.

Owing to the plain and austere atmosphere of early Oberlin, much of the village architecture can be appreciated only through a knowledge of the peculiar local past. In contrast, the college campus offers a vivid record of architectural eclecticism from the 1880s to the present. This guide to town and college explains the distinction of both.

The author, a historian on the faculty of Oberlin College, launched his research for this book fifteen years ago. It is based on primary evidence drawn from local archives, courthouse records, and the testimony of the buildings themselves.



Author: Geoffrey Blodgett
ISBN-10: 0873383095
ISBN-13: 9780873383097
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/29/1985
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.43h x 5.59w x 0.68d
By Geoffrey Blodgett
By Geoffrey Blodgett
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Geoffrey Blodgett (1931-2001, AB Oberlin 1953, PhD Harvard 1960) was the Robert S. Danforth Professor of History at Oberlin College. He taught at Oberlin from 1960 to 2000, where his specialties included American intellectual history, American political history, and the social history of American architecture. He wrote numerous articles on late nineteenth-century political history and early twentieth-century architecture as well as Oberlin history from 1833 through the 1990s. Professor Blodgett was the author of Oberlin Architecture, College and Town: A Guide to Its Social History (Kent State University Press, 1985). His last book, a biography of architect Cass Gilbert, who designed five of Oberlin's buildings, was Cass Gilbert: The Early Years (Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001).

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