Author: Catherine EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambridge (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Cultural Landscape Report for Longfellow National Historic Site: Site history and existing conditions
Author: Catherine EvansPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cambridge (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
CRM
Author: Historic Real Estate
Author: Whitney MartinkoPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812296990
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
A detailed study of early historical preservation efforts between the 1780s and the 1850s In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how Americans in the fledgling United States pointed to evidence of the past in the world around them and debated whether, and how, to preserve historic structures as permanent features of the new nation's landscape. From Indigenous mounds in the Ohio Valley to Independence Hall in Philadelphia; from Benjamin Franklin's childhood home in Boston to St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina; from Dutch colonial manors of the Hudson Valley to Henry Clay's Kentucky estate, early advocates of preservation strove not only to place boundaries on competitive real estate markets but also to determine what should not be for sale, how consumers should behave, and how certain types of labor should be valued. Before historic preservation existed as we know it today, many Americans articulated eclectic and sometimes contradictory definitions of architectural preservation to work out practical strategies for defining the relationship between public good and private profit. In arguing for the preservation of houses of worship and Indigenous earthworks, for example, some invoked the "public interest" of their stewards to strengthen corporate control of these collective spaces. Meanwhile, businessmen and political partisans adopted preservation of commercial sites to create opportunities for, and limits on, individual profit in a growing marketplace of goods. And owners of old houses and ancestral estates developed methods of preservation to reconcile competing demands for the seclusion of, and access to, American homes to shape the ways that capitalism affected family economies. In these ways, individuals harnessed preservation to garner political, economic, and social profit from the performance of public service. Ultimately, Martinko argues, by portraying the problems of the real estate market as social rather than economic, advocates of preservation affirmed a capitalist system of land development by promising to make it moral.
Government Reports Announcements & Index
Author: Ellen Shipman and the American Garden
Author: Judith B. TankardPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082035208X
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Describes Shipman's remarkable life and fifty of her major works, including the Stan Hywet Gardens in Akron, Ohio; Longue Vue Gardens in New Orleans; and Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University. Richly illustrated, this expanded edition reveals her ability to combine plants for dramatic impact and create spaces of the utmost intimacy.
The Dictionary Wars
Author: Peter MartinPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
Author: Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Cultural Landscape Report for Saint-Gaudens National Historic Site: Recent history, existing conditions, and analysis
Author: Marion PressleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cornish (N.H. : Town)
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
The Gardens of Ellen Biddle Shipman
Author: Judith B. TankardPublisher: ABRAMS
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Illustrated with original photographs of Shipman's superb gardens - many by photographer Mattie Edwards Hewitt which have never been previously published - and new photographs by Carol Betsch which were specially commissioned for this volume, the book documents in fascinating detail the life and work of one of America's most important and influential garden designers.