Author: John Philip McAleerPublisher: Halifax, N.S. : Resource Centre Publications, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Nova Scotia
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A Pictorial History of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Author: John Philip McAleerPublisher: Halifax, N.S. : Resource Centre Publications, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Nova Scotia
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
A Pictorial History of St. Paul's Anglican Church, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Author: John Philip McAleerPublisher: Halifax, N.S. : Resource Centre Publications, Faculty of Architecture, Technical University of Nova Scotia
ISBN:
Category : Church architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Churches of Nova Scotia
Author: Robert TuckPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1550024787
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Both text and photographs tell the story of more than 30 churches from all parts of the province and a variety of denominations and eras.
The Buildings of Peter Harrison
Author: John Fitzhugh MillarPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 1476615748
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Perhaps the most important architect ever to have worked in America, Peter Harrison's renown suffers from the destruction of most of his papers when he died in 1775. He was born in Yorkshire, England in 1716 and trained to be an architect as a teenager. He also became a ship captain, and soon sailed to ports in America, where he began designing some of the most iconic buildings of the continent. In a clandestine operation, he procured the plans for the French Canadian fortress of Louisbourg, enabling Massachusetts Governor William Shirley to capture it in 1745. This setback forced the French to halt their operation to capture all of British America and to give up British territory they had captured in India. As a result, he was rewarded with commissions to design important buildings in Britain and in nearly all British colonies around the world, and he became the first person ever to have designed buildings on six continents. He designed mostly in a neo-Palladian style, and invented a way of building wooden structures so as to look like carved stone--"wooden rustication." He also designed some of America's most valuable furniture, including inventing the coveted "block-front," and introducing the bombe motif. In America, he lived in Newport, Rhode Island, and in New Haven, Connecticut, where he died at the beginning of the War of Independence.
Search Out the Land
Author: Sheldon J. GodfreyPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773512016
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
To date, Jews and Jewish contributions to the early development of Canada and the British colonies have been marginalized in Canadian history. In Search Out the Land Sheldon Godfrey and Judith Godfrey begin to redress this situation by illustrating and an
Historic Cities of the Americas [2 volumes]
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Author: David F. MarleyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1576075745
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1031
Book Description
With rare maps, prints, and photographs, this unique volume explores the dramatic history of the Americas through the birth and development of the hemisphere's great cities. Written by award-winning author David F. Marley, Historic Cities of the Americas covers the hard-to-find information of these cities' earliest years, including the unique aspects of each region's economy and demography, such as the growth of local mining, trade, or industry. The chronological layout, aided by the numerous maps and photographs, reveals the exceptional changes, relocations, destruction, and transformations these cities endured to become the metropolises they are today. Historic Cities of the Americas provides over 70 extensively detailed entries covering the foundation and evolution of the most significant urban areas in the western hemisphere. Critically researched, this work offers a rare look into the times prior to Christopher Columbus' arrival in 1492 and explores the common difficulties overcome by these European-conquered or -founded cities as they flourished into some of the most influential locations in the world.
International Books in Print
Author: Halifax: The First 250 Years
Author: Judith FingardPublisher: Formac Publishing Company
ISBN: 088780490X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Three distinguished authors tell the story of Halifax, from its beginnings as a British settlement to counter the French establishment at Louisbourg, to its present-day status as one of Canada's most appealing cities.
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