{"product_id":"grand-central-by-william-middleton-the-worlds-greatest-railway-terminal-w-dj","title":"Grand Central by William Middleton The world's greatest railway terminal w\/ DJ","description":"\u003cfont rwr=\"1\" size=\"4\" style=\"font-family:Arial\"\u003e\n\u003c!-- HTML Generated by Auction Wizard 2000 - http:\/\/www.AuctionWizard2000.com\/ --\u003e\n\n\n\u003c!-- AW2KLOT#:66471 --\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:98%;padding:2px;margin:auto;border:5px outset #673434;background-color:#FDF3D0\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"border:1px inset #673434;margin:5px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctable style=\"width:100%;border:0px;padding:5px;\"\u003e\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\"padding:5px\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eRailroadTreasures\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial Black;font-size:1.5em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration: underline;\"\u003eoffers the following item:\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003c\/td\u003e\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\u003ctd style=\";padding:5px\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eGrand Central by William Middleton The world's greatest railway terminal  DJ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:center\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Arial;font-size:1.13em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eGrand Central by William Middleton The worlds greatest railway terminal with dust jacket.   over 220 illustrations, drawings, architectural reproductions, more.   1977, 3rd printing 1981  160 pages indexed.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eCONTENTS\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eForeword      6\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eChapter 1 — The Railroad Comes to Manhattan       11\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eChapter 2 — The Commodore's Palace on 42nd Street       21\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eChapter 3 — An Engineer and His Grand Design        53\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eChapter 4 — The Architects and Their Magnificent Structure        63\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eChapter 5 — A Prodigious Task Wonderfully Accomplished           81\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eChapter 6 — A City Within a City            93\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eChapter 7 — Gateway to a Continent   107\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eChapter 8 — What Future for Grand Central?            131\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAppendix       143\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eBibliography             154\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eIndex   157\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDUST JACKET INTRODUCTION                                                                                    \n                           \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eWITH\nMORE THAN 220 ILLUSTRATIONS                                                                                                         \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eDrawings — Architectural Reproductions -- Bibliography — Index\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eWhen the New York Central Railroad threw Open the doors of its splendid new Manhattan terminal on 42nd Street on February 2, 1913, newspaper and magazine writers of the time were hard pressed to find superlatives equal to the task of describing it. Both The New York Times and the New York Evening Post published special sections detailing the new terminal's splendid facilities in glowing terms. The New York Evening Sun described it as a \"twentieth century triumph of magnitude, ingenuity, and convenience.\" Scientific American called it \"a monumental gateway to America's greatest city.\" But it was perhaps best described by William Inglis in Harper's Weekly as, the consumation of a prodigious task, wonderfully accomplished.\" And, in truth, it was everything they said it was, for Grand Central Terminal represented an extraordinary and unequalled merging of an inspired work of civil engineering, a landmark achievement for the still-young profession of electrical engineering, and a distinguished example of functional architecture. Almost a half century after it was built, architectural historian Carroll L. V. Meeks was to call it \" one of the outstandingly successful stations of history.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align:left\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family:Calibri;font-size:1.0em;color:#000000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;\"\u003eThe origin and history of New York's great terminal date, not from 1913, but from the very beginning of rail transportation on Manhattan, when the horse-drawn trains of the New York \u0026amp; Harlaem began running along the Bowery in 1832. From their first modest stations on lower Manhattan the New York \u0026amp; Harlem and the New Haven, which came to town over Harlem rails in 1849, moved uptown to progressively grander facilities, first to the station on Fourth Avenue between 26th and 27th that later became the first Madison Square Garden, and then up to 42nd Street to join the trains of the New York \u0026amp; Hudson River in the splendid Grand Central Depot completed by Commodore Vanderbilt in 1871. Said to be patterned after the Tuileries, the Commodore's red brick palace on 42nd Street had a great arched train shed that was the largest interior space on the continent, and it was ranked second only to the National Capitol as a tourist attraction, but increasing rail traffic soon taxed even its capabilities. Subsequent enlargement, and a complete rebuilding of 1898-1900, proved inadequate to meet the city's growing needs\", setting the stage for the construction of the present Grand Central Terminal, an enormously difficult undertaking that took fully a decade to complete. The genius of engineer William J. Wilgus and architects Charles A. Reed and Whitney Warren produced a Grand Central design that was not only an inspired solution to a difficult set of operating conditions and a brilliant work of architecture, but that also made Grand Central the center and catalyst for the dynamic growth and development of a major urban area of mid-town Manhattan. 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