A half century of Boston's building. The construction of buildings, the enactment of building laws and ordinances, sanitary laws, the ancient and modern building, building statistics, Boston's valuation, a chapter of Boston's big fire, fire losses, public lands account, prominent architects, contractors and builders, building materials and their source of supply inspection of buildings, the building and plumbing associations (1895)
Damrell, Charles S. (Charles Stanhope) · Boston, L. P. Hager · leaf 450
n use during the last century, the high-speed passenger elevator is of a comparatively recent date, and is the result of tlie demandfor ra[iid transit to the ujiper stories of the lofty buihlings which are constructed to giveincreased store and office room in the centres of our large cities. Here…
Architecture
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