Old Mexico: An Architectural Pilgrimage
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Old Mexico - Alfred C. Bossom
Plate I
STREET SCENE, ZACATECAS
Old Mexico
An Architectural Pilgrimage
Alfred C. Bossom
Bibliographical Note
This Dover edition, first published in 2004, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published as An Architectural Pilgrimage in Old Mexico by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, in 1924.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bossom, Alfred C., 1881–1965.
[Architectural pilgrimage in old Mexico]
Old Mexico : an architectural pilgrimage / Alfred C. Bossom.
p. cm.
Published in New York in 1924 under title: An architectural pilgrimage in old Mexico.
9780486147505
1. Architecture—Mexico. I. Title.
NA750.B6 2004
720’.972—dc22
2004055141
Manufactured in the United States of America
Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501
Table of Contents
Plate I
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
FOREWORD
PLATES
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
TO MY WIFE
WHO ACCOMPANIED ME ON MY TRAVELS
IN MEXICO
AND HELD THE CAMERA IN
MANY INSTANCES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
My reason for writing this is the desire to particularly thank Miss Jacqueline Overton for her most painstaking co-operation in the arrangement of the photographs, etc., in this book.
And also, to thank Mr. Harold A. Parker and Mr. H. A. Taylor, and Mr. C. B. Waite of Mexico City, who enabled me to get a number of the photographs.
FOREWORD
ALL that an age signifies is written on the open book of its architecture. The architect is, at best, the conscious recorder of the culture of a race; the thrall of his times. Chief builder he may be, but even though he direct a thousand pairs of skillful hands, he is but the interpreter of the progress and aspirations of his fellowmen. A nation without buildings can leave no vivid transcript of the ideals and temperament of its people.
If one would know the genius of the New World which Columbus gave to Castile and Leon, one must seek those architectural fabrics most typical of the spirit of all the Americas.