TABLE OF CONTENTS

Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction by Robert A. M. Stern

Part I. A National Practice Built from the 'Northwest"

1. Architectural Education and Minnesota Career
2. Launching a Career: Residential and Ecclesiastical Work in St. Paul
3. The Politics of Public Architecture
4. The Aesthetics of Eclecticism

Part II. A Defining Moment in American Civic Architecture

5. The Minnesota State Capitol: Thinking Internationally, Designing Locally
6. The Civilization of the West
7. High Culture by the Square Foot
8. Minnesota's Showplace: Politics and Restoration

Part III. Monumentality in New York

9. The Image of the City: The Woolworth Building and the Creation of the Skyline
10. In the Camera's Eye: The Woolworth Building and American Avant-Garde Photography and Film
11. 'Great Gray Buildings": The United States Supply Base

Part IV. Ideals in Planning

12. A 'New" New England: Proposals for New Haven and Waterbury, Connecticut
13. The University of Texas
14. Oberlin: The Grand Collaboration
15. A British Response to American Classicism: Cass Gilbert and Charles Reilly

Part V. Gilbert and the Public Domain

16.St. Louis: Public Architecture, Civic Ideal
17.'A Difficult and Perplexing Matter": The Louisiana Purchase Exposition
18. A User's Viewpoint
19. Representing American Justice: The Supreme Court

Postscript: Concerning Fame
Index