Robert C. Broward
The Architecture of Henry John Klutho: The Prairie School in Jacksonville.
University of North Florida Press, 1983. First edition. Foreword by Wilbert R. Hasbrouck. 0813007313 xviii/361 pages.
Large-format oblong volume, measuring approximately 10.5" x 8.75", is bound in brown cloth, with yellow lettering to spine and front cover. Book is in fine condition. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Numerous b&w photos and building plans. Dust jacket displays small closed tear at top edge of front panel and some creasing to area adjacent to front edge of spine panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover.
"A pioneer of modern architeccture in America, Henry John Klutho came to Jacksonville, Florida, in 1901 to help rebuild a city leveled by fire. His greatest architectural works, built before World War I, belong to what was then a radical movement in American architecture, now called the Prairie School. As the photographs, drawings, and text of Robert Broward's book unfold, Klutho's legacy in Florida, far removed from the midwestern center of this movement, provides new evidence of the vitality and influence of the Prairie School in America.  When he first met Henry John Klutho in 1950, Broward had just returned from an apprenticeship with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin. Klutho's work intrigued Broward because of its similarity to Wright's early work and to that of Wright's great master, Louis Sullivan, the poetic genius of modern architecture. In The Architecture of Henry John Klutho, Broward documents Klutho's long and productive career and analyzes Klutho's innovations. Klutho was the first to use water-jetted steel caissons for concrete pilings, and his high-rise buildings were the first constructed of reinforced concrete in the South. He often presented ideas for the betterment of his adopted city, including, in 1916, a railroad terminal raised in the air to alleviate the increasing automobile traffic. And over many years he strove to awaken Jacksonville to the possibilities of its beautiful riverfront site...."