Author: Bryan Clark Green
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Literally hundreds of Virginia buildings of architectural or historical interest have vanished. Most were demolished or burned, while others were abandoned as populations and needs shifted. The consequence is that important models of architectural accomplishment and key symbols of human aspiration and achievement have disappeared and are largely forgotten. Lost Virginia is an effort to document and reconstruct the appearance of Virginia architecture in earlier times, when the nation's destiny and history were intimately tied to the Old Dominion's landscape and buildings. It seeks to recover, at least on paper, an impression of our lost architectural heritage. Organized into categories of domestic, civic, religious, and commercial buildings, the more than three hundred vanished structures illustrated within include slave pens in Alexandria, George Washington's singular sixteen-sided barn, a one-room schoolhouse in Greene County, and the 18th-century Valley homes--long mistaken for forts--of German-speaking settlers. Soldiers in both blue and gray tramped by the now-lost Rockingham County courthouse, and a cathedral-like federal post office in Roanoke joins Rockbridge County's fantastic Alleghany Hotel on the list of exceptional but short-lived buildings. Also documented are creations like Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Company Pavilion, destroyed just months after it had been erected for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exhibition, and the Thomas Jefferson-designed Barboursville in Orange County. --jacket.
Lost Virginia
Author: Bryan Clark Green
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Literally hundreds of Virginia buildings of architectural or historical interest have vanished. Most were demolished or burned, while others were abandoned as populations and needs shifted. The consequence is that important models of architectural accomplishment and key symbols of human aspiration and achievement have disappeared and are largely forgotten. Lost Virginia is an effort to document and reconstruct the appearance of Virginia architecture in earlier times, when the nation's destiny and history were intimately tied to the Old Dominion's landscape and buildings. It seeks to recover, at least on paper, an impression of our lost architectural heritage. Organized into categories of domestic, civic, religious, and commercial buildings, the more than three hundred vanished structures illustrated within include slave pens in Alexandria, George Washington's singular sixteen-sided barn, a one-room schoolhouse in Greene County, and the 18th-century Valley homes--long mistaken for forts--of German-speaking settlers. Soldiers in both blue and gray tramped by the now-lost Rockingham County courthouse, and a cathedral-like federal post office in Roanoke joins Rockbridge County's fantastic Alleghany Hotel on the list of exceptional but short-lived buildings. Also documented are creations like Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Company Pavilion, destroyed just months after it had been erected for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exhibition, and the Thomas Jefferson-designed Barboursville in Orange County. --jacket.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Literally hundreds of Virginia buildings of architectural or historical interest have vanished. Most were demolished or burned, while others were abandoned as populations and needs shifted. The consequence is that important models of architectural accomplishment and key symbols of human aspiration and achievement have disappeared and are largely forgotten. Lost Virginia is an effort to document and reconstruct the appearance of Virginia architecture in earlier times, when the nation's destiny and history were intimately tied to the Old Dominion's landscape and buildings. It seeks to recover, at least on paper, an impression of our lost architectural heritage. Organized into categories of domestic, civic, religious, and commercial buildings, the more than three hundred vanished structures illustrated within include slave pens in Alexandria, George Washington's singular sixteen-sided barn, a one-room schoolhouse in Greene County, and the 18th-century Valley homes--long mistaken for forts--of German-speaking settlers. Soldiers in both blue and gray tramped by the now-lost Rockingham County courthouse, and a cathedral-like federal post office in Roanoke joins Rockbridge County's fantastic Alleghany Hotel on the list of exceptional but short-lived buildings. Also documented are creations like Frank Lloyd Wright's Larkin Company Pavilion, destroyed just months after it had been erected for the Jamestown Tercentennial Exhibition, and the Thomas Jefferson-designed Barboursville in Orange County. --jacket.
The Christian Science Monitor Index
Who's who in Genealogy & Heraldry
Author: Mary Keysor Meyer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogists
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Genealogists
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Fields of Conflict
Author: Douglas Scott
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597972765
Category : Archaeology and history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Archaeology reveals the hidden history of battlefields
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781597972765
Category : Archaeology and history
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Archaeology reveals the hidden history of battlefields
Manassas
Author: Kathleen Mulvaney
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439629420
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
With its humble beginnings as a small train junction in Virginias northern piedmont region, Manassas has evolved from a traditional rural community into a leading city of the New South, serving as a focal point for new businesses and growth outside of our nations capital. Though the Civil War left an indelible mark on the character of Manassas, the areas citizens and post-war newcomers were able to begin anew, building a progressive town, full of promise and hope, upon the four-year conflicts ashes and battle-scarred landscape. In Manassas: A Place of Passages, this historic town comes alive, allowing the reader to take an entertaining and educational visual journey from the early days of the Iron Horse at Manassas Junction in the mid-nineteenth century to a more prosperous Manassas in the early twentieth century, when the streets were newly paved and lined with family-owned businesses. This comprehensive volume touches upon every facet of community life: schools, such as the Manassas Institute and the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth; the towns many historic churches, which were acknowledged, at one time, by Ripleys Believe It or Not!; several prominent families and civic leaders; and general scenes of people participating in recreational activities, from piano lessons and plays to athletic teams and parades.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439629420
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
With its humble beginnings as a small train junction in Virginias northern piedmont region, Manassas has evolved from a traditional rural community into a leading city of the New South, serving as a focal point for new businesses and growth outside of our nations capital. Though the Civil War left an indelible mark on the character of Manassas, the areas citizens and post-war newcomers were able to begin anew, building a progressive town, full of promise and hope, upon the four-year conflicts ashes and battle-scarred landscape. In Manassas: A Place of Passages, this historic town comes alive, allowing the reader to take an entertaining and educational visual journey from the early days of the Iron Horse at Manassas Junction in the mid-nineteenth century to a more prosperous Manassas in the early twentieth century, when the streets were newly paved and lined with family-owned businesses. This comprehensive volume touches upon every facet of community life: schools, such as the Manassas Institute and the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth; the towns many historic churches, which were acknowledged, at one time, by Ripleys Believe It or Not!; several prominent families and civic leaders; and general scenes of people participating in recreational activities, from piano lessons and plays to athletic teams and parades.
A Biblical Defense of Catholicism
Author: Dave Armstrong
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
ISBN: 1928832954
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Author David Armstrong shows that the Catholic Church is the "Bible Church par excellence," and that many common Protestant doctrines are in fact not Biblical.
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
ISBN: 1928832954
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
Author David Armstrong shows that the Catholic Church is the "Bible Church par excellence," and that many common Protestant doctrines are in fact not Biblical.
The Librarians Phone Book, 1980
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Librarians
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
"... alphabetical list of librarians, heads of library networks ... deans, chairmen of library schools ... in the United States and Canada"--Pref.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Librarians
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
"... alphabetical list of librarians, heads of library networks ... deans, chairmen of library schools ... in the United States and Canada"--Pref.
Librarian Phone Book 1980
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Prices of Clothing
Author: John M. Curran
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clothing and dress
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
History of Braxton County and Central West Virginia
Author: John Davison Sutton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Braxton County (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Braxton County (W. Va.)
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description