Building Victorian Boston: The Architecture of Gridley J.F. Bryant

Much of Boston's rich heritage of Victorian buildings dates from the mid—nineteenth century when Gridley James Fox Bryant (1816–1899) dominated the profession of architecture in the city. At that time, Boston was undergoing a transformation from a quaint post—colonial town to a rapidly expanding Victorian metropolis. Bryant led this transformation, providing an important link between the earlier architecture of Charles Bulfinch and Alexander Parris and the later work of such practitioners a...