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An account of America's first known Jewish architect, a founding member of the American Institute of Architects. In buildings such as the New York State Capitol (Albany), the Tweed Courthouse and Temple Emanu-El (New York), and P. T. Barnum's mansion Iranistan, Eidlitz (1823-1908) created a fusion of structure and ornament that defied the Gilded Age's aesthetic conventions and sowed the seeds of modern American architectural theory a generation before Louis Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright. 130 photographs.

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[L]ucid and informative .add[s] to our understanding of the organic ideal in American architecture.

[T]his pioneering, hard-won monograph .[is] the best tale that could...have been woven from meager archival threads scattered around the world. --Eve Kahn

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Kathryn E. Holliday teaches architectural history and theory at the University of Texas at Arlington. A graduate of Williams College and the University of Texas at Austin, she has written and lectured on the architecture of New York and New Orleans. This is her first book.

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