Preface / by Steven Flanders
Introduction / by Robert A.M. Stern
pt. 1. A national practice built from the "Northwest"
[ch.] 1. Architectural education and Minnesota career / Patricia Anne Murphy
[ch.] 2. Launching a career : residential and ecclesiastical work from the St. Paul office / Thomas R. Blanck and Charles Locks
[ch.] 3. The politics of public architecture / Geoffrey Blodgett
[ch.] 4. The aesthetics of an eclectic architect / Mary Beth Betts
pt. 2. A defining moment in american civic architecture
[ch.] 5. The Minnesota state capitol : thinking internationally, designing locally / Thomas O'Sullivan
[ch.] 6. The civilization of the West / Sally Webster
[ch.] 7. High culture by the square foot / Bailey Van Hook
[ch.] 8 The restoration and preservation of Minnesota's showplace / Carolyn Kompelien
pt. 3. Monumentality in New York
[ch.] 9. The image of the city : the Woolworth building and the creation of the New York skyline / Gail Fenske
[ch.] 10. In the camera's eye : the Woolworth building and American avant-garde photography and film / Mary N. Woods
[ch.] 11. "Great gray buildings" : the United States Army supply base / Sharon Irish
pt. 4. Ideals in planning
[ch.] 12. A "new" New England : proposals for New Haven and Waterbury, Connecticut / Barbara S. Christen
[ch.] 13. The University of Texas : vision and ambition / Lawrence W. Speck
[ch.] 14. Oberlin : the grand collaboration / Geoffrey Blodgett
[ch.] 15. A British response to American classicism : Cass Gilbert and Charles Reilly / Joseph Sharples
pt. 5. Gilbert and the public domain
[ch.] 16. St. Louis : public architecture, civic ideals / Ingrid A. Steffensen
[ch.] 17. "A difficult and perplexing matter" : the Louisiana Purchase Exposition / Susan Luftschein
[ch.] 18. A user's viewpoint : Gilbert and his public / Jeffry H. Gallet
[ch.] 19. Representing American justice : the United States Supreme Court / Paul Spencer Byard
Postscript / by Dennis Jacobs
