Reviews for Outer Banks Architecture: An Anthology of Outposts, Lodges and Cottages

The average rating for Outer Banks Architecture: An Anthology of Outposts, Lodges and Cottages based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-02-12 00:00:00 Leslie Goss Jill Jonnes just has this amazing ability to bring a certain time in history to life. Every detail from the people's lives to the engineering aspects of the project is just so rich and expertly researched. I will read anything that she writes.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-03-24 00:00:00 Jeffrey Blevins Conquering Gotham tells the history of the building of Penn Station and the building of the Long Island Railroad (LIRR). The story is fraught with ego, engineering feats and sacrifice of the common worker like most Gilded Age histories. The struggle of the conquering the east river and the tunnels being built is the primary story in the book with little actually devoted to Penn Station other than being a building out of place and time. The book also covers the typical Tammany Hall corruption and the Pennsylvania railroad's fall from grace under Cassatt. Overall the book had a tendency to ramble and did not really live up to what I was expecting. I would have liked to hear more about the actual station (at least equal in coverage to the tunnels) and a greater focus on the politics of the time instead of the roundabout way it was approached. If you are a true gilded age aficionado it is still worth the time to take a look at but for a casual reader or someone interested in urban history you should probably pass.