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A Chronological History Of Winter Park Florida
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Book Synopsis Winter Park in Vintage Postcards by : Robin Chapman
Download or read book Winter Park in Vintage Postcards written by Robin Chapman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-03 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfume of the orange blossoms . . . the beauty of every scene, combine to make me wonder whether I am not in Paradise, wrote one visitor to Winter Park, Florida, in 1918. Just five miles north of Orlando, Winter Parks oak-lined brick streets and its quiet lakes have been attracting visitors since the late 19th century, when U.S. president Chester A. Arthur declared, This is the prettiest spot I have seen in Florida. The New Englandlike city in the heart of the subtropics was once home to the Seminole Hotel, the largest resort south of Jacksonville. In 1885, prestigious Rollins College was founded here, the first institution of higher learning in Florida.
Book Synopsis A Guide to Historic Winter Park, Florida by : Steve Rajtar
Download or read book A Guide to Historic Winter Park, Florida written by Steve Rajtar and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Guide to Historic Winter Park chronicles the founding and growth of this extraordinary community, one that thrives today as a mecca for both boutique shoppers and outdoor enthusiasts. Established during the 1880s, historic Winter Park will delight the senses. Explore the city along five self-guided neighborhood walks that wind amidst the quaint shops, stately churches and "cottages" of the turn-of-the-century elite. Stroll through historic Rollins College, oak-shaded and reminiscent of the New England alma maters of its founders. Enjoy the lush parklands and canals that connect the city's picturesque lakes and botanical treasures. Wander the halls of the city's museums, libraries and numerous mansions once filled with Baroque music and opulent décor.
Book Synopsis Winter Park, FL - A Historical Review Using Postcards by : Stewart Dunaway
Download or read book Winter Park, FL - A Historical Review Using Postcards written by Stewart Dunaway and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This color book contains images of original postcards from the author's personal collection. In addition, historical accounts and research is provided (if found) pertaining to the subject of the postcard. Also included are a number of old plats from Orange Co. Deeds showing Lakeview, FL or the Town of Osceola, or what we know today as - Winter Park. A detailed index is provided, including indexing of names, places and key search criteria."--Page 4 of cover
Download or read book Florida's Past written by Gene Burnett and published by Pineapple Press Inc. This book was released on 1996-06 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title "Florida's Past" for Florida Trend, Florida's respected magazine of business and finance. The first volume of collected essays from that series proved so popular among book readers that two more volumes have been published. Pineapple Press is now proud to make them available in paperback. Burnett's easygoing style and his sometimes surprising choice of topics make history good reading. Each volume divides Florida's people and events into Achievers and Pioneers, Villains and Characters, Heroes and Heroines, War and Peace, and Calamities and Social Turbulence. Read a chapter and you'll find you've gone on to read more. Read this volume and you'll find yourself looking for the next two. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Book Synopsis The Florida Historical Quarterly by : Florida Historical Society
Download or read book The Florida Historical Quarterly written by Florida Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Architecture of James Gamble Rogers II in Winter Park, Florida by : Patrick W. McClane
Download or read book The Architecture of James Gamble Rogers II in Winter Park, Florida written by Patrick W. McClane and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This well-illustrated book illuminates the life and career of one of Florida's premier architects, whose elegant homes and design aesthetic shaped the architectural character of Winter Park and influenced urban development throughout central Florida. James Gamble Rogers II (1901-1990) created homes known for their human scale and proportion and for their suitability to the environment. This work highlights twelve of these residences designed for Winter Park, the beautiful small city adjacent to Orlando and the headquarters of the Rogers family architecture firm, Rogers, Lovelock, and Fritz, which exists today under the leadership of Rogers' son. Ingeniously meeting the special needs of Florida's climate--heat, humidity, termite control, and air circulation--the residences incorporate details from a variety of historical styles, including eccletic and authentic features that emulate vernacular Spanish farmhouses and villas. The book includes critiques of each design and its evolution, particulars about the site, and stories about the lives and tastes of the clients--men and women of wealth and status who influenced the heady era of the Florida land boom in the 1920s and 1930s. Numerous floor plans, modern and historical photographs, and Rogers' own drawings augment the discussion. The book also presents an entertaining biography of Rogers, with information on his schooling, a history of the firm he founded, and his familial connections with the architectural profession (his uncle and namesake designed more than 20 buildings for Yale University). It describes his success in the areas of governmental, military, and university architecture, including his designs for buildings at Rollins College in Winter Park, and evaluates his impact on 20th-century architecture in Florida and throughout the nation. Coauthors Patrick and Debra McClane have studied Rogers' original drawings, toured his homes, and interviewed clients and family members; Patrick McClane worked at the Rogers firm during the architect's last years there and brings a personal connection to this work. Their book documents an exceptional contribution to Florida's architectural heritage, the life and work of a man who created stylish and desirable homes and distinctive public buildings. With a detailed appendix that lists dates and addresses for nearly 275 houses, most of them still extant, the work will serve as the definitive guide to Rogers' work in Winter Park.
Book Synopsis Apopka by : Apopka Historical Society
Download or read book Apopka written by Apopka Historical Society and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Apopka, Florida, started out as a place once dubbed "Big Potato" by the Native Americans of the area and was formerly known as the "Fern City," but it is now most notably considered the "Indoor Foliage Capitol of the World." Once-thriving fragrant citrus groves have been replaced by climate-controlled greenhouses and fields of landscaped nurseries and subdivisions. The second largest city in Orange County, Apopka is located in the northwest region of the county. It functions today as a bedroom community for Orlando and boasts the history of a community filled with a deep sense of pride.
Book Synopsis The Standard Atlas and Chronological History of the World by : Leonard Stuart
Download or read book The Standard Atlas and Chronological History of the World written by Leonard Stuart and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Writings on American History written by and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Division Street written by Studs Terkel and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark reissue of Studs Terkel’s classic microcosm of America, with a new foreword by the Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and co-creator of the Division Street Revisited podcast “Remarkable. . . . Division Street astonishes, dismays, exhilarates.” —The New York Times When New Press founder André Schiffrin first published Division Street in 1967, Studs Terkel’s reputation as America’s foremost oral historian was established overnight. Approaching Chicagoans as emblematic of the nation at large, Terkel set out with his tape recorder and spent a year talking to over seventy people about race, family, education, work, prospects for the future—all topics that remain deeply contentious today. Subjects included a Black woman who attended the 1963 March on Washington, a tool-and-die maker, a baker from Budapest, a closeted gay actor, and a successful but cynical ad man. As Tom Wolfe wrote, Studs was “one of those rare thinkers who is actually willing to go out and talk to the incredible people of this country.” Most interviewees shared the hope for a good life for their children and the wish for a less divided and more just America, but the real Chicago street referenced in the title takes on a metaphorical meaning as a symbol of the acute social divides of the 1960s—and highlights the continued relevance of Terkel’s work in our polarized times. Now, over fifty years later, Melissa Harris and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Mary Schmich have created the remarkable Division Street Revisited podcast, coming in January 2025, in which they have found and interviewed descendants of Terkel’s original subjects in seven rich episodes. Schmich’s foreword to the reissue and the extraordinary podcast—along with the new edition of Division Street—together demonstrate Studs Terkel’s prescience and the enduring importance of his work.
Book Synopsis Florida's Past, Vol 3 by : Gene Burnett
Download or read book Florida's Past, Vol 3 written by Gene Burnett and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Virtually every month for fourteen years, Gene Burnett wrote a history piece under the title "Florida's Past" for Florida Trend, Florida's respected magazine of business and finance. The first volume of collected essays from that series proved so popular among book readers that two more volumes have been published. Pineapple Press is now proud to make them available in paperback. Burnett's easygoing style and his sometimes surprising choice of topics make history good reading. Each volume divides Florida's people and events into Achievers and Pioneers, Villains and Characters, Heroes and Heroines, War and Peace, and Calamities and Social Turbulence. Read a chapter and you'll find you've gone on to read more. Read this volume and you'll find yourself looking for the next two. Next in series > > See all of the books in this series
Book Synopsis The Flamingo Feather by : Kirk Munroe
Download or read book The Flamingo Feather written by Kirk Munroe and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977 by : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1950-1977 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 2352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cumulated Index to the Books written by and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 1054 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Book Synopsis The "lost" Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany by : Hugh McKean
Download or read book The "lost" Treasures of Louis Comfort Tiffany written by Hugh McKean and published by Doubleday Books. This book was released on 1980 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Includes over 200 colors plates, windows, paintings, lamps, vases, and other works"--Cover.
Book Synopsis The Florida Historical Quarterly by :
Download or read book The Florida Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1987-07 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Through Darkness to Light by : Jeanine Michna-Bales
Download or read book Through Darkness to Light written by Jeanine Michna-Bales and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They left in the middle of the night—often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. Between 1830 and the end of the Civil War in 1865, an estimated one hundred thousand slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad, a journey of untold hardship, in search of freedom. In Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad, Jeanine Michna-Bales presents a remarkable series of images following a route from the cotton plantations of central Louisiana, through the cypress swamps of Mississippi and the plains of Indiana, north to the Canadian border— a path of nearly fourteen hundred miles. The culmination of a ten-year research quest, Through Darkness to Light imagines a journey along the Underground Railroad as it might have appeared to any freedom seeker. Framing the powerful visual narrative is an introduction by Michna-Bales; a foreword by noted politician, pastor, and civil rights activist Andrew J. Young; and essays by Fergus M. Bordewich, Robert F. Darden, and Eric R. Jackson.
