Author: Rufus George Frederick CandagePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Memoir of Jonathan Fisher, of Blue Hill, Maine
Author: Rufus George Frederick CandagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 18
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Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine
Author: Kevin D. MurphyPublisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This book examines the life of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847), a native of Braintree, Massachusetts, and graduate of Harvard College who moved in his late twenties to Blue Hill, Maine, where he embarked on a multifaceted career as a pioneer minister, farmer, entrepreneur, and artist. Drawing on a vast record of letters, diaries, sermons, drawings, paintings, and buildings, Kevin D. Murphy reconstructs Fisher's story and uses it to explore larger issues of material culture, visual culture, and social history during the early decades of the American republic. Murphy shows how Fisher, as pastor of the Congregational church in Blue Hill from 1796 to 1837, helped spearhead the transformation of a frontier settlement on the eastern shores of the Penobscot Bay into a thriving port community; how he used his skills as an architect, decorative painter, surveyor, and furniture maker not only to support himself and his family, but to promote the economic growth of his village; and how the fluid professional identity that enabled Fisher to prosper on the eastern frontier could only have existed in early America where economic relations were far less rigidly defined than in Europe. Among the most important artifacts of Jonathan Fisher's life is the house he designed and built in Blue Hill. The Jonathan Fisher Memorial, as it is now known, serves as a point of departure for an examination of social, religious, and cultural life in a newly established village at the turn of the nineteenth century. Fisher's house provided a variety of spaces for agricultural and domestic work, teaching, socializing, artmaking, and more. Through the eyes of Jonathan Fisher, we see his family grow and face the challenges of the new century, responding to religious, social, and economic change--sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. We appreciate how an extraordinarily energetic man was able to capitalize on the wide array of opportunities offered by the frontier to give shape to his personal vision of community.
Biographical Sketch of the Rev. Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine
Author: Gaylord Crossette HallPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 44
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Biographical Sketch of Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill, Maine
Author: Gaylord Crossette HallPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 22
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Jonathan Fisher House, Blue Hill, Maine
Author: Abbott Lowell CummingsPublisher:
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Category : Blue Hill (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 17
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Jonathan Fisher, Maine Parson, 1768-1847
Author: Mary Ellen ChasePublisher: New York : Macmillan
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Jonathan Fisher was long an estimable citizen of Maine. . .the whole life of this little community is faithfully re-created.
A Biographical Sketch of the Rev. Jonathan Fisher
Author: Rufus George Frederick CandagePublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 8
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Reverend Jonathan Fisher, of Blue Hill, Maine
Author: William Reed DeanePublisher:
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Hands Employed Aright
Author: Joshua A. KleinPublisher:
ISBN: 9781732210028
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Skyscraper Gothic
Author: Kevin D. Murphy estatePublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813939739
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Of all building types, the skyscraper strikes observers as the most modern, in terms not only of height but also of boldness, scale, ingenuity, and daring. As a phenomenon born in late nineteenth-century America, it quickly became emblematic of New York, Chicago, and other major cities. Previous studies of these structures have tended to foreground examples of more evincing modernist approaches, while those with styles reminiscent of the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe were initially disparaged as being antimodernist or were simply unacknowledged. Skyscraper Gothic brings together a group of renowned scholars to address the medievalist skyscraper—from flying buttresses to dizzying spires; from the Chicago Tribune Tower to the Woolworth Building in Manhattan. Drawing on archival evidence and period texts to uncover the ways in which patrons and architects came to understand the Gothic as a historic style, the authors explore what the appearance of Gothic forms on radically new buildings meant urbanistically, architecturally, and socially, not only for those who were involved in the actual conceptualization and execution of the projects but also for the critics and the general public who saw the buildings take shape. Contributors: Lisa Reilly on the Gothic skyscraper ● Kevin Murphy on the Trinity and U.S. Realty Buildings ● Gail Fenske on the Woolworth Building ● Joanna Merwood-Salisbury on the Chicago School ● Katherine M. Solomonson on the Tribune Tower ● Carrie Albee on Atlanta City Hall ● Anke Koeth on the Cathedral of Learning ● Christine G. O'Malley on the American Radiator Building