"IMMIGRANTS -- WE GET THE JOB DONE!"
Central and Union Pacific agreed. Without immigrants — Chinese and Irish — the mighty Transcontinental RR would not have been.
THE MAN WHO GREENED AMERICA
Central Park. Prospect Park. The Capitol grounds. Emerald necklaces. . . Frederick Law Olmsted spread greenery coast-to-coast.
ROCK OF AGES, CLEFT BY ME
Near Vermont’s mountain of granite, quarrymen carved their dreams into stone.
RIDING THE MIRACLE RAILS -- "NOTHING LIKE IT IN THE WORLD"
The Attic journeys over the Sierras on the trackbeds of America’s epic Transcontinental Railroad.
THE CHRYSLER BUILDING AND THE RACE TO THE SKY
Topping Manhattan’s soaring skyline took money, ego, and an architect’s secret plan.
THE MOHAWKS AND 'HIGH STEEL'
Builders offered jobs on the ground, but the Mohawks soared. Soon these “Fearless Wonders” were building the American skyline.
JANE JACOBS -- THE WOMAN WHO SAVED OUR CITIES
The Power Broker knew how to build but Jane Jacobs knew how to make cities livable. Her book revived urban America. You’re welcome.
"ICARUS" -- THE PHOTO THAT FLEW
It took courage to build skyscrapers, and courage to photograph the ones who “built America.”
THE AMAZING TOWERS OF WATTS
One man. A vision. Thirty years working in his backyard. The Watts Towers are "as pure a work of art as this country can rightly call its own."
AN AUCTION IN BRICK CITY
Hebron bricks were “what America is made of.” But the bricklayer’s house went for a song.
THE GRAND COULEE DAM -- "BIGGEST THING THAT MAN HAS EVER DONE"
Fifty stories high and a mile wide. The Attic visits the great Grand Coulee Dam.