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One of Texas's most talented architects in the late nineteenth
century, James Riely Gordon may have been the nation's most
prolific designer of county courthouses. Though Gordon's Texas
courthouses made his reputation, they represent only half of a
career in which we see reflected many issues and events shaping
American architecture. Most notable were the effort among
architects to organize their craft as a profession, the
controversial Office of the Supervising Architect of the United
States Treasury, the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, and the
City Beautiful Movement. Situating Gordon's career, Meister focuses
on the public architecture, the pursuit of which took Gordon from
San Antonio to Dallas and on to Chicago and New York City as he
secured commissions in nine states. Competition was fierce, and
Gordon often had to defend his reputation against scandalous
charges leveled by jealous architects and unscrupulous politicians.
In his interdisciplinary approach, Meister examines political,
cultural, and economic forces for their impact on the finished
buildings as well as on Gordon's career and exposes the political
and legal wrangling so often attendant to the construction of
buildings that serve as the nexus for their communities.
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