Inventing the skyline: the architecture of Cass Gilbert

Foreword / Betsy Gotbaum

Preface / Margaret Heilbrun

Acknowledgements

Biographical time line

Introduction / Hugh Hardy

ch. 1. Cass Gilbert in practice, 1882-1934 / Sharon Irish

ch. 2. From sketch to architecture : drawings in the Cass Gilbert office / Mary Beth Betts

ch. 3. Cass Gilbert : twelve projects [Minnesota State Capitol], [Broadway Chambers Building], [Essex County Courthouse], [U.S. Custom House], [West Street Building], [The F.W. Woolworth Company Building], [Oberlin College], [U.S. Army supply base], [Detroit Public Library], [New York Life Insurance Company Building], [George Washington Bridge], [New York County Lawyers' Association Building] / Mary Beth Betts

ch. 4. The architect as planner : Cass Gilbert's responses to historic open space / Barbara S. Christen

ch. 6. Cass Gilbert's skyscrapers in New York : the twentieth-century city and the urban picturesque / Gail Fenske.