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Author : S. Allen Chambers
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Architecture of Carson City, Nevada written by S. Allen Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexis Thomas
Publisher : Past and Present
ISBN 13 : 9781467160094
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Carson City written by Alexis Thomas and published by Past and Present. This book was released on 2023-10-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1858 on the brink of the Comstock Lode discovery, Carson City quickly became a hub for industry and transport in western Nevada. Following the turn of the 20th century, Carson City's proximity to the Lake Tahoe area was attractive for early tourists and recreation enthusiasts, ultimately leading to the establishment of the Lincoln Highway down the city's main street. Carson City's landscape continues to change with new businesses and expanded infrastructure. Alexis K. Thomas is an architectural historian who has worked in Carson City as well as the rest of Nevada.
Author : Peter B. Mires
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439664455
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Lost Carson City written by Peter B. Mires and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-25 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carson City has the distinction of being one of the least populated state capitals in the nation, but its contributions to Nevada's history are anything but diminutive. Set against the backdrop of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, it's a quintessential Wild West town. The gold and silver riches of the nearby Comstock Lode left a legacy that includes the Carson City Mint, one of only nine mints ever to exist in the United States, and the Virginia & Truckee Railroad, which still snakes through the hills. Residents once flocked to the Carson Opera House to take in a show and to the local racetrack to bet on the horses. Author Peter B. Mires explores the city's legacies, brick by locally quarried sandstone brick.
Author : Julie Nicoletta
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Buildings of Nevada written by Julie Nicoletta and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2000 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In addition to providing authoritative architectural profiles of each site, Julie Nicoletta pays close attention to the political, social, cultural, and historical contexts of the buildings and their communities."--Jacket.
Author : Holly Walton-Buchanan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781891033353
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (333 download)
Download or read book Historic Houses and Buildings of Reno, Nevada written by Holly Walton-Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide highlights the architectural and historical significance of more than sixty important homes, ranch houses, and buildings in Reno, Nevada. Known as The Biggest Little City in the World since the 1930s, when quickie divorces and casino gaming were legalized by the Nevada Legislature, Reno has reinvented itself several times during its nearly 150 years of history. Founded in the 1860s on the banks of the scenic Truckee River in Northern Nevada, Reno has had a fascinating journey, from its beginnings as an Emigrant Trail outpost, to its role in the mid-1930s invention of the hotel and casino industry. Cattle barons, mine speculators, and bank presidents in 19th century Reno built their mansions on the high bluff above the Truckee River, surrounded by extensive gardens, transforming the arid little town into what author Walter Van Tilburg Clark called The City of Trembling Leaves. Also featured is the beautiful University of Nevada, Reno, campus, with its Neoclassical buildings designed by Reno s most prominent architect, Frederic Delongchamps. Enhanced with both historical and contemporary photographs, the book includes maps, a glossary of architectural terms with local examples, and a list of architectural styles found in Reno.
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ISBN 13 : 9781597252478
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Remember When written by and published by . This book was released on 2009-11 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Howard Hickson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Mint Mark: "CC" written by Howard Hickson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ronald M. James
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874178061
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Nevada's Historic Buildings written by Ronald M. James and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1991, Nevada’s Commission for Cultural Affairs was formed to oversee the preservation of the state’s historic buildings and the conversion of the best of them for use as cultural centers. This program has rehabilitated dozens of historic structures valued by their communities for the ways they represent the development of the state and its culture. Nevada’s Historic Buildings highlights ninety of these buildings, describing them in the context of the state’s history and the character of the people who created and used them. Here are reminders of mining boomtowns, historic ranches, transportation, the divorce and gaming industries, the New Deal, and the innovation of Las Vegas’s post-modern aesthetic. These buildings provide a cross-section of Nevada’s rich historic and cultural heritage and their survival offers everyone the experience of touching the past.
Author : William Joe Simonds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book The Newlands Project written by William Joe Simonds and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Index of Bicentennial Activities written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book The Bicentennial of the United States of America written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book US-395 Construction from Lake Tahoe Junction to Arrowhead Drive, Carson City written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Old-House Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Old-House Journal is the original magazine devoted to restoring and preserving old houses. For more than 35 years, our mission has been to help old-house owners repair, restore, update, and decorate buildings of every age and architectural style. Each issue explores hands-on restoration techniques, practical architectural guidelines, historical overviews, and homeowner stories--all in a trusted, authoritative voice.
Author : Stefan Al
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 026203574X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book The Strip written by Stefan Al and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself. The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015—ten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of art. Las Vegas became the “implosion capital of the world” as developers, driven by competition, got rid of the old to make way for the new—offering a non-metaphorical definition of “creative destruction.” In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself. The Strip is not, as popularly supposed, a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social, cultural, and economic change. Al tells two parallel stories. He describes the feverish competition of Las Vegas developers to build the snazziest, most tourist-grabbing casinos and resorts—with a cast of characters including the mobster Bugsy Siegel, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the would-be political kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. And he views the Strip in a larger social context, showing that it has not only reflected trends but also magnified them and sometimes even initiated them. Generously illustrated with stunning color images throughout, The Strip traces the many metamorphoses of a city that offers a vivid projection of the American dream.
Author : Howard W. Marshall
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816513109
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Paradise Valley, Nevada written by Howard W. Marshall and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stonemasons from the Alpine valleys of northwestern Italy shaped the architectural face of Paradise Valley in northern Nevada in the 1860s and 1870s. Drawing on their own distinctive skills, they constructed the constellation of granite and sandstone buildings that are the region's most visible landmarks. Marshall's analysis of this architectural legacy, illustrated with 229 photographs and 70 line drawings, is not only a valuable resource for scholars in vernacular architecture, folklore, and cultural geography, but also a verbal and visual treat for all who love the American West.
Author : Ronald M. James
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874174171
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book The Roar and the Silence written by Ronald M. James and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevada’s Comstock Mining District has been the focus of legend since it first burst into international prominence in the late 1850s, and its principal settlement, Virginia City, endures in the popular mind as the West’s quintessential mining camp. But the authentic history of the Comstock is far more complex and interesting than its colorful image. Contrary to legend, Virginia City spent only its first few years as a ramshackle mining camp. The mining boom quickly turned it into a thriving urban center, at its peak one of the largest cities west of the Mississippi, replete with most of the amenities of any large city of its time. The lure of the area’s fabulous wealth attracted a remarkably heterogenous population from around the world and offered employment to dozens of trades and thousands of people, both men and women, representing every one of the region’s diverse ethnic groups. Ronald James’s brilliant account of the Comstock’s long and eventful history—the first comprehensive study of the subject in over a century—examines every aspect of the region and employs information gleaned from hundreds of written sources, interviews, archeological research, computer analysis, folklore, gender studies, physical geography, and architectural and art history, as well as over fifty rare photographs, many of them previously unpublished.
