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Book Synopsis Buildings of Louisiana by : Karen Kingsley
Download or read book Buildings of Louisiana written by Karen Kingsley and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the state's extraordinary architecture, from the Creole tradition and the Mississippi River's antebellum mansions to the modern; and dicusses their architectural history, preservation, and urban planning.
Book Synopsis Religious Architecture in Louisiana by : Robert Heck
Download or read book Religious Architecture in Louisiana written by Robert Heck and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enormous number of churches and other religious structures have been built in Louisiana over the past 250 years, many of which still stand. Today, in New Orleans alone, there are more than 850 churches representing more than seventy denominations. The state's religious buildings encompass not only a wide range of faiths but also a striking diversity of architectural forms. In Religious Architecture in Louisiana, author Robert W. Heck and photographer Otis B. Wheeler provide the first photographic survey of this rich architectural heritage. Their goal has been not to document every religious building in the state (a nearly impossible task) but to isolate prime examples of the historically and architecturally significant. Robert W. Heck presents a brief history of Louisiana's religious architecture. He describes the dominating influence of Catholicism during the eighteenth century, during which time the original Church of St. Louis was built on the site of the present Cathedral of St. Louis, King of France, in New Orleans. He then discusses the burgeoning construction that accompanied the expansion of religious freedom following the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 as Protestants and Jews erected their own places of worship. The author also considers the various architectural influences that have marked Louisiana's religious buildings, from the Colonial style of the eighteenth century, to the Classical Revival and Gothic Revival styles that predominated during the middle part of the nineteenth century, to the Eclectic style that gained currency after the Civil War and persisted until about 1930. The great part of the book is devoted to 162 religious buildings located throughout the state. In addition to presenting photographs of the structures, each place of worship is identified by name, address, date of construction (when known), and architectural style. For each building the author also provides comments on design, construction materials, and structural and decorative details. To enhance the usefulness of the book, a glossary of architectural terms and an appendix that lists those religious buildings in the state included in the National Register of Historic Places is included as well as another appendix that lists known early religious structures that are no longer standing. Religious Architecture in Louisiana will prove a valuable resource for architects, religious congregations, historic preservationists, and religious and architectural historians.
Book Synopsis Building Louisiana by : Robert D. Leighninger Jr.
Download or read book Building Louisiana written by Robert D. Leighninger Jr. and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009-09-18 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert D. Leighninger, Jr., believes there may be a model for municipal building projects everywhere in the ambitious and artful structures erected in Louisiana by the Public Works Administration. In the 1930s, the PWA built a tremendous amount of infrastructure in a very short time. Most of the edifices are still in use, yet few people recognize how these schools, courthouses, and other great structures came about. Building Louisiana documents the projects one New Deal agency erected in one southern state and places these in social and political context. Based on extensive research in the National Archives and substantial field work within the state, Leighninger has gathered the story of the establishment of the PWA and the feverish building activity that ensued. He also recounts early tussles with Huey Long and the scandals involving public works discovered during the late New Deal. The book includes looks at individual projects of particular interest--"Big Charity" hospital, the Carville leprosy center, the Shreveport incinerator, and the LSU sugar plant. A concluding chapter draws lessons from the PWA's history that might be applied to current political concerns. Also included is an annotated inventory of every PWA project in the state. Finally, this composite picture honors those workers and policymakers who, in a time of despair, expressed hope for the future with this enduring investment.
Book Synopsis Louisiana Buildings, 1720–1940 by : Jessie Poesch
Download or read book Louisiana Buildings, 1720–1940 written by Jessie Poesch and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1997-08-01 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only New Deal program to continue into the 1990s, the Historic American Buildings Survey has through the years drawn attention to the historical and artistic significance of buildings that contemporary taste might otherwise have ignored. Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940 makes easily available the fruit of HABS's important and enduring efforts to record Louisiana's architectural heritage. In the 1930s, the Louisiana HABS team concentrated on public edifices and grand plantation complexes threatened by destruction. Later records of HABS include still other habitations of the common man as well as industrial structures. The project has yielded not only graphic and written documentation of the buildings, many no longer standing, but also new insights into the history of the state's architecture. An invaluable part of Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940 is the alphabetical listing of HABS structures in Louisiana both by familiar name and by parish. The listing by parish gives the location, the date of construction, the architect when known, and the current status of each building. It also presents drawings or photographs of many of the structures, over 300 pictures in all. There are, besides, nine chapters by leading architectural historians, who cover all aspects of Louisiana architecture: its Creole beginnings in the south of the state; the Appalachian folk style in the north; and developments on the plantation, in the seventeenth-century urban setting, and in the modern era. Those chapters form an essential frame of reference for the data in the HABS listings and call attention to many other structures that are a part of the history of building in the Pelican State. Anyone interested in the state's architecture or history will find Louisiana Buildings indispensable.
Book Synopsis Building the Devil's Empire by : Shannon Lee Dawdy
Download or read book Building the Devil's Empire written by Shannon Lee Dawdy and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building the Devil’s Empire is the first comprehensive history of New Orleans’s early years, tracing the town’s development from its origins in 1718 to its revolt against Spanish rule in 1768. Shannon Lee Dawdy’s picaresque account of New Orleans’s wild youth features a cast of strong-willed captives, thin-skinned nobles, sharp-tongued women, and carousing travelers. But she also widens her lens to reveal the port city’s global significance, examining its role in the French Empire and the Caribbean, and she concludes that by exemplifying a kind of rogue colonialism—where governments, outlaws, and capitalism become entwined—New Orleans should prompt us to reconsider our notions of how colonialism works. "[A] penetrating study of the colony's founding."—Nation “A brilliant and spirited reinterpretation of the emergence of French New Orleans. Dawdy leads us deep into the daily life of the city, and along the many paths that connected it to France, the North American interior, and the Greater Caribbean. A major contribution to our understanding of the history of the Americas and of the French Atlantic, the work is also a model of interdisciplinary research and analysis, skillfully bringing together archival research, archaeology, and literary analysis.”—Laurent Dubois, Duke University
Book Synopsis The House That Sugarcane Built by : Donna McGee Onebane
Download or read book The House That Sugarcane Built written by Donna McGee Onebane and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-07-17 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The House That Sugarcane Built tells the saga of Jules M. Burguières Sr. and five generations of Louisianans who, after the Civil War, established a sugar empire that has survived into the present. When twenty-seven-year-old Parisian immigrant Eugène D. Burguières landed at the Port of New Orleans in 1831, one of the oldest Louisiana dynasties began. Seen through the lens of one family, this book traces the Burguières from seventeenth-century France, to nineteenth- century New Orleans and rural south Louisiana and into the twenty-first century. It is also a rich portrait of an American region that has retained its vibrant French culture. As the sweeping narrative of the clan unfolds, so does the story of their family-owned sugar business, the J. M. Burguières Company, as it plays a pivotal role in the expansion of the sugar industry in Louisiana, Florida, and Cuba. The French Burguières were visionaries who knew the value of land and its bountiful resources. The fertile soil along the bayous and wetlands of south Louisiana bestowed on them an abundance of sugarcane above its surface, and salt, oil, and gas beneath. Ever in pursuit of land, the Burguières expanded their holdings to include the vast swamps of the Florida Everglades; then, in 2004, they turned their sights to cattle ranches on the great frontier of west Texas. Finally, integral to the story are the complex dynamics and tensions inherent in this family-owned company, revealing both failures and victories in its history of more than 135 years. The J. M. Burguières Company’s survival has depended upon each generation safeguarding and nourishing a legacy for the next.
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :764 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (1 download)
Book Synopsis Highway Construction Practices in the State of Louisiana and Related Matters by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program
Download or read book Highway Construction Practices in the State of Louisiana and Related Matters written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Public Works. Special Subcommittee on the Federal-Aid Highway Program and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 764 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Committee Serial No. 89-10. Investigates Federal Aid Highway Program administration in Louisiana including allegations of mismanagement.
Book Synopsis Highway Construction Practices in the State of Louisiana and Related Matters, Hearing, 89-1, March 30-31- June 2, 1965 by : United States. Congress. House. Public Works
Download or read book Highway Construction Practices in the State of Louisiana and Related Matters, Hearing, 89-1, March 30-31- June 2, 1965 written by United States. Congress. House. Public Works and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Louisiana Architecture by : Jonathan Fricker
Download or read book Louisiana Architecture written by Jonathan Fricker and published by University of Louisiana. This book was released on 1998 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction to architectural styles that have shaped Louisiana's landscapes.
Book Synopsis Port Handbook of New Orleans by : Louisiana. Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans
Download or read book Port Handbook of New Orleans written by Louisiana. Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Louisiana; a Guide to the State by : Best Books on
Download or read book Louisiana; a Guide to the State written by Best Books on and published by Best Books on. This book was released on 1941 with total page 863 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Official Journal of the Proceedings of House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana at the ... General Assembly ... by : Louisiana. Legislature. House of Representatives
Download or read book Official Journal of the Proceedings of House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana at the ... General Assembly ... written by Louisiana. Legislature. House of Representatives and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis 2015 International Existing Building Code by : International Code Council
Download or read book 2015 International Existing Building Code written by International Code Council and published by . This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resource added for the Fire Science Program 305318.
Book Synopsis Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940 by : Jessie J. Poesch
Download or read book Louisiana Buildings, 1720-1940 written by Jessie J. Poesch and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :232 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (319 download)
Book Synopsis Caring for Young Black Children at Risk in Louisiana by : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families
Download or read book Caring for Young Black Children at Risk in Louisiana written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstracts: This hearing examines the welfare of young black children in Louisiana and the type of care available for children. The testimony discussed the needs of thousands of Louisiana's young black children who in urban and rural poverty. Public and private initiatives which bring opportunities for a healthy start and continued healthy development for these children and their families are examined.
Book Synopsis A Digest-index of the Acts of the General Assembly of Louisiana by : Robert Hardin Marr
Download or read book A Digest-index of the Acts of the General Assembly of Louisiana written by Robert Hardin Marr and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis American Building Association News by :
Download or read book American Building Association News written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
