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Author : Collectif,
Publisher : Acanthus
ISBN 13 : 9780926494916
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (949 download)
Download or read book Capital Houses written by Collectif, and published by Acanthus. This book was released on 2016-03-30 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patricia West
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
ISBN 13 : 1588344258
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Domesticating History written by Patricia West and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the lives of famous men and women, historic house museums showcase restored rooms and period furnishings, and portray in detail their former occupants' daily lives. But behind the gilded molding and curtain brocade lie the largely unknown, politically charged stories of how the homes were first established as museums. Focusing on George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and the Booker T. Washington National Monument, Patricia West shows how historic houses reflect less the lives and times of their famous inhabitants than the political pressures of the eras during which they were transformed into museums.
Author : Patricia Schooley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972571500
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (715 download)
Download or read book Architectural and Historic Treasures of Washington County, Maryland written by Patricia Schooley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Architectural & Historic Treasures of Washington County, Maryland features 140 articles, including references to original land patents, early settlers and their families, and the establishment of towns throughout Washington County. In addition, this book includes over 500 photographs, plus 64 pages of color photos, maps showing each location, many historic pictures, an extensive glossary and index.Publication of this book was made possible by the Washington County Historical Trust and the volunteer efforts of its members. All profits will be placed in a revolving fund for the preservation of endangered properties in Washington County, Maryland.
Author : Henry Glassie
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812210132
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Pattern in the Material Folk Culture of the Eastern United States written by Henry Glassie and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1971-10 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Filled with brilliant insights and tantalizing leads."--
Author : Sherry Butcher-Younghans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195355504
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Historic House Museums written by Sherry Butcher-Younghans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-08 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic house museums can be found in nearly every city in the United States and Canada. These are the homes of the earliest settlers, statesmen, frontiersmen, great writers, artists, architects, and industrial magnates. These are the places, carefully saved and preserved, that represent a cultural heritage. Despite their popularity, it is not uncommon to find museums that are in poor repair, their collections neglected and their staffs grossly overworked. Many are run by well-meaning and hard-working volunteers who have little or no professional training. Often they survive on shoestring budgets and are able to present only limited programs. Serving both as a hands-on guide and reference, this book examines these problems, offering practical advice and solutions which can be easily implemented. Its useful "lessons" include governance, where to find help, care of collections, conservation, security, and interpretation--all designed to increase the professionalism of the historic house museum.
Author : Scott T Hanson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1684751578
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (847 download)
Download or read book Restoring Your Historic House written by Scott T Hanson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although there are other books about renovating old houses, this is the first that prioritizes the identification and preservation of the historic, character-defining features of a house as a starting point in the process. That is the purpose of this book: to describe and illustrate a best-practices approach for updating historic homes for modern life in ways that do not attempt to turn an old house into a new one. The book also suggests many ways to save money in the process, without settling for cheap or inappropriate solutions. Scott Hanson is a historic-building preservation professional and has 40 years' experience rehabilitating historic houses. He has illustrated this authoritative book with hundreds of step-by-step photos, illustrations, charts, and decision-making guides. Interspersed throughout are photo essays of 13 restored historic houses representing a range of periods and architectural styles: Italianate, Victorian, Queen Anne, Federal, Colonial, Colonial Revival, Greek Revival, Ranch, Adobe, Craftsman, Shingle, and Rustic. With interior and exterior photography by David Clough, these multi-page features show what can be achieved when a historic home is renovated with a desire to preserve or restore as much historic character as possible.
Author : Charlene C. Giannetti
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493024809
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Plantations of Virginia written by Charlene C. Giannetti and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southern plantations are an endless source of fascination. That’s no surprise since these palatial homes are rich in history, representing a pivotal time in U.S. history that truly is “gone with the wind.” With the Civil War literally exploding all around, many of these homes were occupied either by Confederate or Union troops. Nowhere else in the south were plantations so affected by the nation’s bloodiest war than in Virginia. At times, families fled, leaving behind slaves to manage the property. There are still more than 60 plantations in Virginia today, most of them open to the public. Some have been restored, others undergoing that process. If only the walls could talk, the stories we might hear! That’s what we hope to bring into this book on The Plantations of Virginia. We’ll take the tours and talk to the guides and dig even further if there is more to discover. We hope that travelers will be enlightened before they travel to Virginia, their visits will thus be enriched, and that residents will equally love exploring this deep history of Virginia. Accompanying the text will be photographs, taken by one of the authors, showing, in all their splendor, the exteriors of these plantations, as well as areas of interest inside the buildings.
Author : Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801872324
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Capital Drawings written by Library of Congress. Prints and Photographs Division and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-12-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This elegant volume, a guide to the Library of Congress's massive collection of architectural drawings, offers a celebration of the ambitious project of designing the nation's capital. Each of its "capital drawings" reflects some aspect of the lives, history, and values of the building's creators and sponsors. 55 color illustrations. 123 halftones.
Author : Harold Donaldson Eberlein
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486263045
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley written by Harold Donaldson Eberlein and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Superb photographic history of scores of important homes and public buildings—Sunnyside, Boscobel, Clermont, West Point, etc.—built in the valley of the Hudson River from colonial times to 19th century. Meticulously researched text. 200 photographs.
Author : Patricia Chambers Walker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742503441
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Directory of Historic House Museums in the United States written by Patricia Chambers Walker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive guide to America's historic house museums, this directory moves beyond merely listing institutions to providing information about interpretive themes, historical and architectural significance, collections, and cultural and social importance, along with programming events and facility information. Useful cross-reference guides provide quick and easy ways of locating information on almost 2500 museums. A multi-functional reference for museum professionals, local historians, historic preservationists or anyone interested in America's historic house museums.
Author : Linda Young
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442239778
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom written by Linda Young and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-12-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom: A History addresses the phenomenon of historic houses as a distinct species of museum. Everyone understands the special nature of an art museum, a national museum, or a science museum, but “house museum” nearly always requires clarification. In the United States the term is almost synonymous with historic preservation; in the United Kingdom, it is simply unfamiliar, the very idea being conflated with stately homes and the National Trust. By analyzing the motivation of the founders, and subsequent keepers, of house museums, Linda Young identifies a typology that casts light on what house museums were intended to represent and their significance (or lack thereof) today. This book examines: • heroes’ houses: once inhabited by great persons (e.g., Shakespeare’s birthplace, Washington’s Mount Vernon); • artwork houses: national identity as specially visible in house design, style, and technique (e.g., Frank Lloyd Wright houses, Modernist houses); • collectors’ houses: a microcosm of collecting in situ domesticu, subsequently presented to the nation as the exemplars of taste (e.g., Sir John Soane’s Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum); • English country houses: the palaces of the aristocracy, maintained thanks to primogeniture but threatened with redundancy and rescued as museums to be touted as the peak of English national culture; English country houses: the palaces of the aristocracy, maintained for centuries thanks to primogeniture but threatened by redundancy and strangely rescued as museums, now touted as the peak of English national culture; • Everyman/woman’s social history houses: the modern, demotic response to elite houses, presented as social history but tinged with generic ancestor veneration (e.g., tenement house museums in Glasgow and New York).
Author : Richard Hampton Jenrette
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
ISBN 13 : 0941711765
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (417 download)
Download or read book Adventures with Old Houses written by Richard Hampton Jenrette and published by Gibbs Smith. This book was released on 2005 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of one man's adventures in acquiring and bringing back to life some of America's most enticing and historically significant dwellings. With the eye of a connoisseur, the business acumen derived from a legendary career in international finance, and a Jeffersonian grasp of classical architecture, Richard Hampton Jenrette reveals his charming, often risky, ventures in the world of old houses.
Author : Gregory J. Alexander
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614235961
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Charles Village written by Gregory J. Alexander and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baltimore Orioles, infamous bootleggers, novelists of the Jazz Age and famous musicians have all wandered and lived among the stately Victorian homes and vibrant "painted ladies" of Charles Village. From its beginning as a series of country villas for the wealthy elite of Baltimore to escape the crush of downtown, the neighborhood has become a diverse and vibrant cultural hub of the city. Local authors Gregory J. Alexander and Paul K. Williams chart the evolution of this famous Baltimore community and its institutions while telling fascinating tales of some of its most colorful residents.
Author : William M. Woollett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Old Homes Made New written by William M. Woollett and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Francis Osborne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Historic Houses and Their Gardens written by Charles Francis Osborne and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Federal Historic Preservation Laws written by United States and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book How to Apply the National Register Criteria for Evaluation written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
