Author: Archives and History. North Carolina DivisionPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Early Twentieth-century Suburbs in North Carolina
Author: Archives and History. North Carolina DivisionPublisher:
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Languages : en
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Early Twentieth-century Suburbs in North Carolina
Author: Catherine W. BishirPublisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Abstracts
Author: North Carolina. Division of Archives and HistoryPublisher:
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
Discussion of preservation issues for urban neighborhoods in major North Carolina cities: North Carolina's Early 20th Century Neighbohoods and the Urbanizing South by David Goldfield; The American Idyll in North Carolina's First Suburbs : Landscape and Architecture by Margaret Supplee Smith; Today's Idyll? The Back to the City Movement in North Carolina by George Chapman ; A Tale of Five Cities and Their First Suburbs : Greensboro by Gail Fripp and David Moore, Durham by Claudia Roberts and William Diuguid, Winston-Salem by Davyd Foard Hood and Laura A.W. Phillips, Raleigh by Charlotte C. Brown, Charlotte by Thomas Hanchett and Susan Jernigan; Neighborhood History and Today's Issues by Brent D. Glass.
The Small, Early Twentieth Century Apartment House in North Carolina
Author: Elizabeth Ann HooperPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 140
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Planning the Twentieth-century American City
Author: Mary Corbin SiesPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801851643
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1226
Book Description
Arguing that planning in practice is far more complicated than historians usually depict, the authors examine closely the everyday social, political, economic, ideological, bureaucratic, and environmental contexts in which planning has occurred. In so doing, they redefine the nature of planning practice, expanding the range of actors and actions that we understand to have shaped urban development.
North Carolina Architecture
Author: Catherine W. BishirPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469620782
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
This award-winning, lavishly illustrated history displays the wide range of North Carolina's architectural heritage, from colonial times to the beginning of World War II. North Carolina Architecture addresses the state's grand public and private buildings that have become familiar landmarks, but it also focuses on the quieter beauty of more common structures: farmhouses, barns, urban dwellings, log houses, mills, factories, and churches. These buildings, like the people who created them and who have used them, are central to the character of North Carolina. Now in a convenient new format, this portable edition of North Carolina Architecture retains all of the text of the original edition as well as hundreds of halftones by master photographer Tim Buchman. Catherine Bishir's narrative analyzes construction and design techniques and locates the structures in their cultural, political, and historical contexts. This extraordinary history of North Carolina's built world presents a unique and valuable portrait of the state.
Historic Residential Suburbs
Author: David L. AmesPublisher:
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Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 148
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Presbyterians in North Carolina
Author: Walter H. ConserPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572338849
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This volume is the first comprehensive overview of North Carolina Presbyterians to appear in more than a hundred years. Drawing on congregational and administrative histories, personal memoirs, and recent scholarship—while paying close attention to the relevant social, political, and religious contexts of the state and region—Walter Conser and Robert Cain go beyond older approaches to denominational history by focusing on the identity and meaning of the Presbyterian experience in the Old North State from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Conser and Cain explore issues as diverse as institutional development and worship experience; the patterns and influence of race, ethnicity, and gender; and involvement in education and social justice campaigns. In part 1 of the book, “Beginnings,” they trace the entrance of Presbyterians—who were legally considered dissenters throughout the colonial period—into the eastern, central, and western sections of the state. The authors show how the Piedmont became the nexus of Presbyterian organizational development and examine the ways in which political movements, including campaigns for American independence, deeply engaged Presbyterians, as did the incandescence of revivalism and agitation for reform, which extended into the antebellum period. The book’s second section, “Conflict, Renewal, and Reunion,” investigates the denominational tensions provoked by the slavery debate and the havoc of the Civil War, the soul searching that accompanied Confederate defeat, and the rebuilding efforts that came during the New South era. Such important factors as the changing roles of women in the church and the decline of Jim Crow helped pave the way for the eventual reunion of the northern and southern branches of mainline Presbyterianism. By the arrival of the new millennium, Presbyterians in North Carolina were prepared to meet future challenges with renewed confidence. A model for modern denominational history, this book is an astute and sensitive portrayal of a prominent Protestant denomination in a southern context. Walter H. Conser Jr. is professor of religion and professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. His books include A Coat of Many Colors: Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina and God and the Natural World: Religion and Science in the Natural World. Before his retirement after thirty-two years of service, Robert J. Cain was head of the Colonial Records Branch at the North Carolina State Archives. He is the editor of The Colonial Records of North Carolina, second series.
Charlotte
Author: John R. RogersPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738567372
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The history of Charlotte is inseparable from the history of its neighborhoods. From the city's founding until the late 1890s, the four wards created by the crossing of Trade and Tryon Streets defined the residential fabric of Charlotte. As the twentieth century approached, the Southern textile boom fueled labor and housing demands that were met by the earliest suburbs that rose out of the farms and pastures surrounding the small town. Dilworth was the first of these suburbs, connected to the town center by the city's maiden electric streetcar line. More new communities quickly followed. Some, such as Myers Park and Elizabeth, have remained strong throughout their history. North Charlotte, Belmont, and others have changed under economic and social challenges. Still others, such as Brooklyn, are gone; they survive only in the memories and photographs of the families that called them home.
Sorting Out the New South City, Second Edition
Author: Thomas W. HanchettPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469656450
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 429
Book Description
One of the largest and fastest-growing cities in the South, Charlotte, North Carolina, came of age in the New South decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, transforming itself from a rural courthouse village to the trading and financial hub of America's premier textile manufacturing region. In this book, Thomas W. Hanchett traces the city's spatial evolution over the course of a century, exploring the interplay of national trends and local forces that shaped Charlotte and, by extension, other New South urban centers. Hanchett argues that racial and economic segregation are not age-old givens but products of a decades-long process. Well after the Civil War, Charlotte's whites and blacks, workers and business owners, lived in intermingled neighborhoods. The rise of large manufacturing enterprises in the 1880s and 1890s brought social and political upheaval, however, and the city began to sort out into a "checkerboard" of distinct neighborhoods segregated by both race and class. When urban renewal and other federal funds became available in the mid-twentieth century, local leaders used the money to complete the sorting-out process, creating a "sector" pattern in which wealthy whites increasingly lived on one side of town and blacks on the other. A new preface by the author confronts the contemporary implications of Charlotte's resegregation and prospects for its reversal.