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This book makes a significant contribution to the history of American architecture by studying carefully a major American city at a time when architecture and cities in this country were entering the modern era. Moreover, this book is a fine piece of local history that rests on solid scholarship. - Francis R. Kowsky, Buffalo State College An important contribution to the field of American architectural history. - Kenneth A. Breisch, University of Southern California

It deserves to be read by persons interested in those architecturally zestful years of recovery and mostly rampant growth after Seattle's Great Fire of 1889. -- Paul Dorpat The Seattle Times The book teems with fascinating facts. -- Sheila Farr, The Seattle Time The Seattle Times An impressive accomplishment. Choice In this masterful study of architectural practice in late nineteenth-century Seattle, Washington, Jeffrey Ochsner and Dennis Andersen have produced a model of how architectural history should be written... Distant Corner is an exceptional work of research, narrative, and analysis. Oregon Historical Quarterly Due to its thorough scholarship and readability, Ochsner and Anderson's account is an excellent model for a city's architectural and urban history at a key moment in its development. This book is a fascinating case-study of an important American city. H-Net Reviews Ochsner and Andersen have presented a carefully written and documented explanation for the development of a unique Seattle spirit ... Distant Corner should be made required reading for any out-of-town developer today, that they might come to know the important role these Richardsonian buildings played and continue to play in shaping the ethos and character of Seattle. The Public Historian

"""This book makes a significant contribution to the history of American architecture by studying carefully a major American city at a time when architecture and cities in this country were entering the modern era. Moreover, this book is a fine piece of local history that rests on solid scholarship."" - Francis R. Kowsky, Buffalo State College ""An important contribution to the field of American architectural history."" - Kenneth A. Breisch, University of Southern California"

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Jeffrey Karl Ochsner is professor of architecture at the University of Washington; among his previous publications is H. H. Richardson: Complete Architectural Works. Dennis Alan Andersen , formerly in charge of photographs and architectural drawings in the Special Collections Division of the University of Washington Libraries, is a longtime historic preservation advocate and currently a Lutheran pastor. Both are authors in Shaping Seattle Architecture: A Historical Guide to the Architects.

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