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Book Synopsis The Family Mansion ... Fifth Edition by : Ann Taylor
Download or read book The Family Mansion ... Fifth Edition written by Ann Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Publisher :State University of New York Press ISBN 13 :1438437714 Total Pages :762 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (384 download)
Book Synopsis The Landmarks of New York, Fifth Edition by : Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel
Download or read book The Landmarks of New York, Fifth Edition written by Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 762 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the definitive resource on the architectural history of New York City, The Landmarks of New York, Fifth Edition documents and illustrates the 1,276 individual landmarks and 102 historic districts that have been accorded landmark status by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission since its establishment in 1965. Arranged chronologically, by date of construction, the book offers a sequential overview of the city's architectural history and richness, presenting a broad range of styles and building types: colonial farmhouses, Gilded Age mansions, churches, schools, libraries, museums, and the great twentieth-century skyscrapers that are recognized throughout the world. That so many of these structures have endured is due, in large measure, to the efforts of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission. Since the establishment of the commission, New York City has become the leader of the preservation movement in the United States, with more buildings and districts designated and protected than in any other city. Included here are such iconic structures as Grand Central Station, the Chrysler Building, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Carnegie Hall, as well as those that may be less well known but are of significant historical and architectural value: the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House in Brooklyn, the oldest structure in New York City; the Bowne House in Queens, the birthplace of American religious freedom; the Watchtower in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem; the New York Botanical Garden in The Bronx; and Sailors Snug Harbor on Staten Island. In addition to completely updated maps and descriptions of each landmark and historic district included in the previous editions, the fifth edition adds 183 new individual landmarks and 39 new historic district maps.
Book Synopsis The Phantom of Fifth Avenue by : Meryl Gordon
Download or read book The Phantom of Fifth Avenue written by Meryl Gordon and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-27 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling author Meryl Gordon, the definitive biography of Huguette Clark, who went from being one of the wealthiest and most famous Jazz Age socialites to spending the last twenty years of her life hiding out in hospitals. Born in 1906, Huguette Clark grew up in her family's 121-room Beaux Arts mansion in New York and was one of the leading celebrities of her day. Her father William Andrews Clark, was a copper magnate, the second richest man in America, and not above bribing his way into the Senate. Huguette attended the coronation of King George V. And at twenty-two with a personal fortune of $50 million to her name, she married a Princeton man and childhood friend William MacDonald Gower. Two-years later the couple divorced. After a series of failed romances, Huguette began to withdraw from society--first living with her mother in a kind of Grey Gardens isolation then as a modern-day Miss Havisham, spending her days in a vast apartment overlooking Central Park, eating crackers and watching The Flintstones with only servants for company. All her money and all her real estate could not protect her in her later life from being manipulated by shady hangers-on and hospitals that were only too happy to admit (and bill) a healthy woman. But what happened to Huguette that turned a vivacious, young socialite into a recluse? And what was her life like inside that gilded, copper cage?
Download or read book Empty Mansions written by Bill Dedman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money? Dedman has collaborated with Huguette Clark’s cousin, Paul Clark Newell, Jr., one of the few relatives to have frequent conversations with her. Dedman and Newell tell a fairy tale in reverse: the bright, talented daughter, born into a family of extreme wealth and privilege, who secrets herself away from the outside world. Huguette was the daughter of self-made copper industrialist W. A. Clark, nearly as rich as Rockefeller in his day, a controversial senator, railroad builder, and founder of Las Vegas. She grew up in the largest house in New York City, a remarkable dwelling with 121 rooms for a family of four. She owned paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, a vast collection of antique dolls. But wanting more than treasures, she devoted her wealth to buying gifts for friends and strangers alike, to quietly pursuing her own work as an artist, and to guarding the privacy she valued above all else. The Clark family story spans nearly all of American history in three generations, from a log cabin in Pennsylvania to mining camps in the Montana gold rush, from backdoor politics in Washington to a distress call from an elegant Fifth Avenue apartment. The same Huguette who was touched by the terror attacks of 9/11 held a ticket nine decades earlier for a first-class stateroom on the second voyage of the Titanic. Empty Mansions reveals a complex portrait of the mysterious Huguette and her intimate circle. We meet her extravagant father, her publicity-shy mother, her star-crossed sister, her French boyfriend, her nurse who received more than $30 million in gifts, and the relatives fighting to inherit Huguette’s copper fortune. Richly illustrated with more than seventy photographs, Empty Mansions is an enthralling story of an eccentric of the highest order, a last jewel of the Gilded Age who lived life on her own terms. Praise for Empty Mansions “An amazing story of profligate wealth . . . an outsized tale of rags-to-riches prosperity.”—The New York Times “An evocative and rollicking read, part social history, part hothouse mystery, part grand guignol.”—The Daily Beast “Fascinating . . . [a] haunting true-life tale.”—People “One of those incredible stories that you didn’t even know existed. It filled a void.”—Jon Stewart, The Daily Show “Thrilling . . . deliciously scandalous.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Book Synopsis Houses of the Hamptons, 1880-1930 by : Gary Lawrance
Download or read book Houses of the Hamptons, 1880-1930 written by Gary Lawrance and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houses of the Hamptons offers a fascinating glimpse into the
Book Synopsis Benjie's Guide to Edinburgh and Vicinity ... Fifth Edition. By James Brown Gillies by :
Download or read book Benjie's Guide to Edinburgh and Vicinity ... Fifth Edition. By James Brown Gillies written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Essays in Rhyme ... Fifth edition by : Jane Taylor
Download or read book Essays in Rhyme ... Fifth edition written by Jane Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gilded Mansions written by Wayne Craven and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gilded Age (1865-1918) saw the sudden rise of America's first High Society, including such prominent families as the Astors, Whitneys, and Vanderbilts. As an aristocracy based on fortunes recently acquired, these families endeavored to live like Europe's blue-blooded nobility, shedding Puritan restraint as they joyously flaunted their new wealth--especially where their homes were concerned. They erected French chateaus and Italian palazzos on New York's Fifth Avenue, at Newport, and elsewhere, often taking inspiration from Parisian styles of the Second Empire. They rejected more modest American styles just as they rejected middle-class society, and for interior decoration they turned to such artisans as Tiffany, Herter Brothers, and Allard's of Paris. Immensely readable and illuminated with 250 stunning color and black-and-white illustrations, this is the fascinating story of America's first millionaire society, the way they lived and partied, and the lush artistic and cultural legacy they established.
Download or read book Savage Girl written by Jean Zimmerman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An over-the-top romp through 1870s America . . . compulsively readable.” —Oprah.com Jean Zimmerman’s spectacular follow-up to The Orphanmaster has it all: Gilded Age romance, robber baron excess, detective story suspense, and a compelling female protagonist whom readers will fall in love with. In 1875, the Delegates, an outlandishly wealthy Manhattan couple on a tour of the American West, seek out a sideshow attraction called “Savage Girl.” Her handlers avow that the wild, seemingly mute Bronwyn has been raised by wolves. Presented with the perfect blank slate to explore the power of civilized nurture, the Delegates take her back east to be introduced into high society. Cleaned up, Bronwyn is blazingly smart and darkly beautiful; as she takes steps toward her grand debut, a series of suitors find her irresistible—and begin to turn up murdered.
Book Synopsis Père la Chaise ... Second edition by : Mary Martha Sherwood
Download or read book Père la Chaise ... Second edition written by Mary Martha Sherwood and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Untold Vedic Astrology (Fifth Edition) by : Gaurish Borkar
Download or read book Untold Vedic Astrology (Fifth Edition) written by Gaurish Borkar and published by P & J Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-02 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many times, we learn astrology in the form of rules. Any life science has aspect of analysis and just applying rules maybe ineffective. To analyse the horoscope deeper understand of principles is required. We get deeper understanding when we learn proof of any theorem. This book gives proofs of many principles in Vedic astrology along with deeper understanding of important principles. I am confident that after reading this book you would feel much more confident during analysis. This shall also increase accuracy of your prediction. The Book Covers Vital Principles to increase accuracy of predictions 12 Important Principles from Vedic Culture How significations of houses and signs were identifiedInterrelation of Graha (Yoga and Rajayoga) and their movements (Gati and Avastha) How to analyse Rahu and Ketu How to Identify purpose of life of a native How rules of astrology were formed Technical understanding of Bhava Chalith Kundali Challenges in analysis and workarounds Original References from Classical Texts The book also connects Vedic Astrology with Triune Brain Theory Multiple Intelligence Theory Quantum Physics Ayurveda and Modern Medicine Body Clock Astronomy
Book Synopsis Maternal Solicitude ... Ninth edition by : Ann Taylor
Download or read book Maternal Solicitude ... Ninth edition written by Ann Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Popular Lectures on the Steam Engine by : Dionysius Lardner
Download or read book Popular Lectures on the Steam Engine written by Dionysius Lardner and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis General Catalogue of Printed Books by : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books written by British Museum. Department of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Remarks on Elementary Education in Science. An Introductory Lecture Delivered ... in the University of London, November 2, 1830 by : Augustus De Morgan
Download or read book Remarks on Elementary Education in Science. An Introductory Lecture Delivered ... in the University of London, November 2, 1830 written by Augustus De Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Etymology and Syntax, in Continuation of the Elements of the Hebrew Language by : Hyman Hurwitz
Download or read book The Etymology and Syntax, in Continuation of the Elements of the Hebrew Language written by Hyman Hurwitz and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Guesses at Truth by : Julius Charles Hare
Download or read book Guesses at Truth written by Julius Charles Hare and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: