Railroad Stations: The Buildings That Linked the Nation

by David Naylor

They were backdrops to commonplace comings and goings as well as public lecturers and evangelists, rallies and wartime troop movement; outposts of Western settlement; staging grounds for presidential whistle-stop tours; and destinations for a new class of tourists that arose at the turn of the twentieth century. Reflecting a vast range of shapes, styles, and sizes, their architectural diversity defined them nearly as much as their hallowed place...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393731642
• ISBN13: 9780393731644
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.7" x 11.3"