The Merritt Parkway | 
 enlarge | Author: Bruce Radde
Publisher: Yale University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 927491
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 8.5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0300068778
Dewey Decimal Number: 388
EAN: 9780300068771
ASIN: 0300068778
Publication Date: September 25, 1996
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Book Description
This book traces the history of Connecticut`s Merritt Parkway from the proposals for its construction and design in the early 1920s to its triumphant completion in 1940. Filled with vintage and recent photographs, it is not only a picturesque tour of a renowned landmark (the largest Art Deco design in the world), but is also an appraisal of a major contribution to the built environment-one recently placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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Super history of the nation's most beautiful highway! February 11, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you were ever interested in finding out more about how highways were built before the Interstate system, this is the book for you! The Merritt Parkway and its extension the Wilber Cross Parkway remain marvelous designs to this day and are still enjoyable to travel on during every season. If you are from Connecticut or nearby New York, this book offers a wonderful historically perspective. The photographs are large and clear and the pages of the book are a good weight. In addition to being a good read, this book promoted a lot of family converstion about the history of the road. My great-Grandfather, for example, was the first person to ever drive over the Sikorsky Bridge built to connect the Merritt Parkway to the Boston Post Road in Milford, CT. This made the book seem all the more personal to me knowing that my family had played a part in Connecticut's history. Super, super book! Highly recommended to those that love highways and the history of the American road!
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