Andrew S. Dolkart, Professor of Historic Preservation at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, is the author of award-winning The Row House Reborn: Architecture and Neighborhoods in New York City, 1908–1929 and Morningside Heights: A History of Its Architecture and Development.
""A fascinating, engagingly written study that illuminates the history of a building as well as the social and legislative changes that informed its structural evolution."" - Clio: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy of History ""Illustrate[s] the dramatic social and economic disparities of the Gilded Age and Victorian era, and the grounding of architecture and building in larger systems of economics and production. Perhaps most importantly . . . it help[s] bridge the gap between the study of the everyday environment and that of high culture."" - Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians