Harold Kirker
American architectural historian
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Harold Kirker's Degrees
- PhD Architectural History Columbia University
- Masters Architectural History Columbia University
- Bachelors Art History Princeton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Harold Kirker was an American historian . Born in San Francisco, Kirker was a direct descendant of the mountain man James Kirker . After starting at the University of California, Berkeley, Kirker enlisted in the US Army during World War II. Like some other young men with Boy Scout hiking experience, he was recruited into the 10th Mountain Division where he trained alongside Charles Grier Sellers at the high-altitude Camp Hale in Colorado in 1943. Kirker served with the 10th Mountain Division during the Italian campaign. During the war, he was awarded the Bronze Star. During a leave, he sought out George Santayana in Rome and was able to meet with him.
Harold Kirker's Published Works
Published Works
- The architecture of Charles Bulfinch (1969) (18)
- Bulfinch's Boston, 1787-1817 (1965) (9)
- California's Architectural Frontier: Style and Tradition in the Nineteenth Century (1986) (8)
- Richard Neutra and the Search for Modern Architecture: A Biography and History Thomas S. Hines (1984) (3)
- The Role of Hispanic Kinships in Popularizing the Monterey Style in California, 1836-1846 (1984) (2)
- Beard, Becker and the Trotsky Inquiry (1961) (1)
- The Larkin House Revisited (1986) (1)
- California Architecture and Its Relation to Contemporary Trends in Europe and America (1972) (1)
- The New Theater, Philadelphia, 1791-1792 (1963) (1)
- Eldorado Gothic: Gold Rush Architects and Architecture (1959) (1)
- New South Church, Boston Built 1814; demolished 1868 Figures 134-136 (1969) (0)
- Higginson Houses, Boston 43-49 Mount Vernon Street; 8-10 Joy Street Built 1803; altered after 1831 (1969) (0)
- The Capitol, Washington, D.C. Built 1793-1827; altered after 1851 Figures 148-156 (1969) (0)
- State Prison, Charlestown Built 1804-1805; demolished 1-957 Figures 99-100 (1969) (0)
- Federal Penitentiary, Washington, D.C. Built 1827-1828; demolished ca. 1908 Figures 163-167 (1969) (0)
- Mason Houses, Boston 51-57 Mount Vernon Street Built 1804; altered after 1838 Figure 93 (1969) (0)
- Park Row, Boston 1-4 Park Street Built 1803-1805; altered after 1870 Figures 84, 87-88 (1969) (0)
- Hartford State House Built 1793-1796; restored 1918-1921 Figures 22-28 (1969) (0)
- The Lick House, San Francisco, 1861-1862 (1960) (0)
- Massachusetts State House, Boston Built 1795-1797; restored 1896-1898 Figures 12, 43-48 (1969) (0)
- Holy Cross Church, Boston Built 1800-1803; enlarged 1825; demolished ca. 1862 Figures 78-79 (1969) (0)
- James Swan House, Dorchester Built ca. 1796; demolished ca. 1890 Figures 57-60 (1969) (0)
- Tontine Crescent, Boston Built 1793-1794; demolished ca. 1858 Figures 33-36 (1969) (0)
- Kirk Boott House, Boston Built 1804; demolished 1847 Figure 94 (1969) (0)
- Boston Theatre Built 1793-1794; rebuilt 1798; demolished 1852 Figures 29-31 (1969) (0)
- John Joy House, Boston Built 1791; removed 1833 Figures 12-13 (1969) (0)
- Suffolk County Court House, Boston Built 1810-1812; demolished 1863 Figure 123 (1969) (0)
- Houses in Bulfinch Place, Boston Built 1805-1806; demolished ca. 1890 Figure 107 (1969) (0)
- Manufacturers and Mechanics Bank, Boston Built 1814-1815; demolished ca. 1850 Figure 83 (1969) (0)
- Church of Christ, Lancaster Built 1816 Figures 131, 140-141 (1969) (0)
- Hollis Street Church, Boston Built 1787-1788; removed 1810; burned 1897 Figures 3-5 (1969) (0)
- Pearson Hall, Andover Built 1817-1818; moved and partially restored 1924 Figure 142 (1969) (0)
- Congregational Church, Pittsfield Built 1790-1793; remodeled 1855; demolished 1939 Figures 7-8 (1969) (0)
- 29A Chestnut Street, Boston Built 1799-1800; remodeled ca. 1818 Figure 69 (1969) (0)
- Appendix I. Minor Commissions and Attributions (1969) (0)
- New England Marine Insurance Office, Boston Built ca. 1811; demolished after 1845 Figure 126 (1969) (0)
- Federal Street Church, Boston Built 1809; demolished 1859 Figures 116-118 (1969) (0)
- Harrison Gray Otis House, Boston 45 Beacon Street Built 1805-1808 Figures 105-106 (1969) (0)
- Worcester Bank, Worcester Built 1804; burned 1843 Figure 92 (1969) (0)
- Jean Lemoulnier in Boston, 1846-1851 (1972) (0)
- University Hall, Cambridge Built 1813-1814; altered 1842 and after Figures 128-133 (1969) (0)
- Massachusetts Fire and Marine Insurance Office, Boston Built 1814-1815; demolished ca. 1890 Figure 83 (1969) (0)
- Charles Paine Houses, Boston 6 - 8 Chestnut Street Built 1803-1804 Figure 89 (1969) (0)
- Swan Houses, Boston 13, 15, 17 Chestnut Street Built 1804-1805 Figures 95-96 (1969) (0)
- Harrison Gray Otis House, Boston (1969) (0)
- The Architecture of Charles Bulfinch@@@Charles Bulfinch, Architect and Citizen (1970) (0)
- Congregational Church, Taunton Built 1790-1792; demolished ca. 1854 Figures 9-10 (1969) (0)
- Appendixes I—III, Bibliographical Note, Index (1969) (0)
- Elias Hasket Derby House, Salem Built 1795-1799; demolished 1815 Figures 55-56 (1969) (0)
- Broad Street, Boston Built 1806-1807; demolished 1952 Figures 90, 113-114. (1969) (0)
- Charles Bulfinch House, Boston Built 1793; altered ca. 1874; demolished 1961 Figure 32 (1969) (0)
- India Wharf, Boston Built 1803-1807; demolished 1962 Figures 90-91 (1969) (0)
- Charles Bulfinch: Architect as Administrator (1963) (0)
- Knox Mansion, Thomaston, Maine Built 1794-1796; demolished 1871; rebuilt 1929-1930 Figures 41-42 (1969) (0)
- Faneuil Hall, Boston Built 1740-1742; rebuilt and enlarged 1805-1806; restored 1898-1899 Figures 108-111 (1969) (0)
- Court House and Town House, Newburyport Built 1805; remodeled 1853 Figure 112 (1969) (0)
- Thomas Perkins House, Boston Built 1804-1805; demolished 1853 Figures 12, 97-98 (1969) (0)
- Middlesex County Court House, Cambridge Built 1814-1816; altered 1848, 1901; demolished 1966 Figure 139 (1969) (0)
- Jonathan Mason House, Boston Built 1800-1802; demolished 1836 Figure 76 (1969) (0)
- Bulfinch Hall, Andover Built 1818-1819; restored 1936-1937 Figure 147 (1969) (0)
- 17-24 Franklin Place, Boston Built 1794-1795; demolished 1858 Figures 39-40 (1969) (0)
- Appendix III. Charles Bulfinch's Architectural Library (1969) (0)
- Thomas Amory House, Boston 9 Park Street Built 1803-1804; altered ca. 1815 and after 1885 Figures 12, 84-86 (1969) (0)
- Robert S. Roeschlaub: Architect of the Emerging West, 1843-1923 Francine Haber Kenneth R. Fuller David N. Wetzel (1991) (0)
- The Parrott Building, San Francisco, 1852 (1959) (0)
- Worcester County Courthouse, Worcester Built 1801-1803; remodeled 1857; demolished 1898 Figure 80 (1969) (0)
- Stoughton Hall, Cambridge Built 1804-1805 Figure 101 (1969) (0)
- Unitarian Church, Washington, D.C. Built 1821-1822; altered after 1839; demolished 1900 Figures 157-162 (1969) (0)
- John Phillips House, Boston 1 Walnut Street Built 1804-1805; Altered ca. 1830 Figure 12 (1969) (0)
- Beacon Hill Memorial Column, Boston Built 1790-1791; demolished 1811 Figure 11 (1969) (0)
- Almshouse, Boston Built 1799-1801; demolished 1825 Figure 68 (1969) (0)
- Washington Arch, Boston Built 1789; demolished 1789 Figure 6 (1969) (0)
- Boylston Hall and Market, Boston Built 1809; demolished 1888 Figure 115 (1969) (0)
- Essex Bank Building (Now Salem Fraternity), Salem 11 Central Street Built 1811; remodeled prior to 1899 Figures 124-125 (1969) (0)
- Joseph Coolidge, Sr., House, Boston 1791-1792; demolished 1843 Figures 14-15 (1969) (0)
- Joseph Barrell House, Somerville Built 1792-1793; remodeled as McLean Hospital 1817 Figures 16-21 (1969) (0)
- Thomas Russell House, Charlestown Built 1793-1796; burned 1835 Figures 37-38 (1969) (0)
- Massachusetts Bank, Boston Built 1809; demolished 1837 (1969) (0)
- Joseph Coolidge, Jr., House, Boston Built 1795; demolished 1846 Figures 49, 94 (1969) (0)
- Daniel Raynerd House, Boston Built 1805-1806; demolished ca. 1890 Figures 103-104 (1969) (0)
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston Built 1818-1823; altered 1844 and after Figures 145-146 (1969) (0)
- Harrison Gray Otis House, Watertown Built ca. 1715; remodeled 1809-1810; altered 1898; burned 1962 Figures 119-120 (1969) (0)
- Appendix II. Public Buildings Erected After the Designs and Under the Direction of Charles Bulfinch (1969) (0)
- United States Bank, Boston Built 1798; demolished 1824 Figures 66-67 (1969) (0)
- Blake-Tuckerman Houses, Boston Built 1814-1815; demolished 1902 Figures 137-138 (1969) (0)
- Suffolk Insurance Office, Boston Built 1803; demolished ca. 1890 Figure 83 (1969) (0)
- New North (now St. Stephen's) Church Hanover Street, Boston Built 1802-1804; restored 1964-1965 Figures 81-82 (1969) (0)
- Maine State House, Augusta Built 1829-1832; altered after 1851; enlarged and rebuilt 1909-1911 Figures 168-174 (1969) (0)
- Humphreys-Higginson Houses, Boston 87-89 Mount Vernon Street Built 1804-1806; number 89 altered beyond recognition Figure 102 (1969) (0)
- The Colonnade, Boston Built 1810-1812; demolished 1855 Figures 121-122 (1969) (0)
- Perez Morton House, Roxbury Built 1796; demolished ca. 1890 Figures 61-65 (1969) (0)
- Ezekiel Hersey Derby House, Salem 204-206 Essex Street Built ca. 1800; altered 1908 Figures 70-75 (1969) (0)
- Harrison Gray Otis House, Boston 85 Mt. Vernon Street Built 1800-1802 Figure 77 (1969) (0)
- Mclean Hospital, Somerville Built 1817-1818; enlarged after 1826; demolished 1896 Figures 143-144 (1969) (0)
- Architect: The Life and Work of Charles W. Moore David Littlejohn (1986) (0)
- Middlesex County Jail, Cambridge Built 1815-1816; rebuilt 1883; demolished 1965 (1969) (0)
- Santayana in Rome: Bulletin of the Santayana Society (1990) (0)
- Third Latin School, Boston Built 1812; demolished 1844 Figure 127 (1969) (0)
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