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- catalog abstract ""Geoffrey Blodgett grounds Gilbert's personal and professional life in national and regional history, offering detailed political context for the opening decades of his career. Fascinated by architectural design since boyhood, Gilbert trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, toured Europe, and apprenticed with the renowned New York architectural firm McKim, Mead and White. In 1882, ready to set out on his own, he chose the familiar territory of St. Paul, his hometown, as the starting point for his career. Teaming for many years with close friend James Knox Taylor, Gilbert designed several dozen residences, churches, and urban structures in and around the Twin Cities. Suffering through the panic of 1893, with a wife and four children to support, Gilbert fought hard to win the plum commission to design Minnesota's capitol building in 1895." "While the commission would give Gilbert's fame a national dimension, these early years were crucial in nurturing the techniques that supported his later career. It was in Minnesota that Gilbert learned to cultivate social relationships and leverage political connections, practices that led to prime commissions. He also learned to work with rich and often demanding clients, whose wealth aroused his own ambitions. Inspired by visions of success, Gilbert pursued a top ranking in the hierarchy of American architects. After the rough struggle of the Minnesota years, Gilbert would in fact be renowned as the most prolific and stylistically versatile architect of his generation, his mature skills ranging from the picturesque through beaux-arts neoclassicism to the new art of the high tower."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12316923.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""Geoffrey Blodgett grounds Gilbert's personal and professional life in national and regional history, offering detailed political context for the opening decades of his career. Fascinated by architectural design since boyhood, Gilbert trained at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, toured Europe, and apprenticed with the renowned New York architectural firm McKim, Mead and White. In 1882, ready to set out on his own, he chose the familiar territory of St. Paul, his hometown, as the starting point for his career. Teaming for many years with close friend James Knox Taylor, Gilbert designed several dozen residences, churches, and urban structures in and around the Twin Cities.".
- catalog description ""While the commission would give Gilbert's fame a national dimension, these early years were crucial in nurturing the techniques that supported his later career. It was in Minnesota that Gilbert learned to cultivate social relationships and leverage political connections, practices that led to prime commissions. He also learned to work with rich and often demanding clients, whose wealth aroused his own ambitions. Inspired by visions of success, Gilbert pursued a top ranking in the hierarchy of American architects.".
- catalog description "1. Beginnings -- 2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- 3. Europe -- 4. McKim, Mead and White -- 5. Starting out in St. Paul -- 6. Falling in love -- 7. Hard times -- 8. The Capitol.".
- catalog description "After the rough struggle of the Minnesota years, Gilbert would in fact be renowned as the most prolific and stylistically versatile architect of his generation, his mature skills ranging from the picturesque through beaux-arts neoclassicism to the new art of the high tower."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog description "Suffering through the panic of 1893, with a wife and four children to support, Gilbert fought hard to win the plum commission to design Minnesota's capitol building in 1895."".
- catalog extent "xi, 154 p., [8] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0873514106 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "St. Paul, Minn. : Minnesota Historical Society Press,".
- catalog spatial "Minnesota".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "720/.92 B 21".
- catalog subject "Architects Minnesota Biography.".
- catalog subject "Architects United States Biography.".
- catalog subject "Architects United States.".
- catalog subject "Architecture United States 19th century.".
- catalog subject "Architecture United States 20th century.".
- catalog subject "Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Gilbert, Cass, 1859-1934.".
- catalog subject "NA737.G5 B58 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Beginnings -- 2. Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- 3. Europe -- 4. McKim, Mead and White -- 5. Starting out in St. Paul -- 6. Falling in love -- 7. Hard times -- 8. The Capitol.".
- catalog title "Cass Gilbert : the early years / Geoffrey Blodgett.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".