This book stands out for several reasons: it is the main work of one of America's distinguished architectural critics of the nineteenth century (to quote Henry-Russell Hitchcock) and it is the work of the first major woman architectural writer. It is also the first full- fledged biography of an American architect. Not only is it the basic source for Richardson's life, narrated with a devotee's care and enthusiasm, but it is also an appreciation of his works, which are described with an amazingly modern critical perception.
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