Immigrant Architect : Rafael Guastavino and the American Dream EPUB
by Berta de Miguel, Kent Diebolt
Illustrated by Virginia Lorente
Part of the The History Makers Series series
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Booklist Starred ReviewNamed to the 2022 Texas Topaz Nonfiction Reading ListThe Spanish architects Rafael Guastavino Sr. and hisson, Rafael Guastavino Jr., designed more than one thousand iconic spaces across New York City and the United States, such as the New York City Hall Subway Station (still a tourist destination though no longer active), the Manhattan Federal Reserve Bank, the Nebraska State Capitol, the Great Hall of Ellis Island, the Oyster bar at Grand Central Terminal in New York, the Elephant House at the Bronx Zoo, the soaring tiled vaults under the Queensboro Bridge, the central dome of the Cathedral Church of St.
John the Divine, and the Boston Public Library. Written in the voice of the son, who was eight years old in 1881 when he immigrated to America with his father, this is their story.
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- Publisher:Tilbury House Publishers
- Publication Date:07/04/2020
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- ISBN:9780884488149
