Author: Elizabeth Ann HooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The Small, Early Twentieth Century Apartment House in North Carolina
Author: Elizabeth Ann HooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
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:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Domestic
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A Twentieth Century Woman
Author: Aline Poole LudwigPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1410734056
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
A Woman of the 20th Century is the story of a life in the most advanced century ever, one that offered greater technology and knowledge and freedom, as well as more riches to be able to enjoy it. The big challenge, though, was figuring out how to handle the freedom and use it to have access to all the new wonderful things. The author, Aline, was born into a family whose financial security and class status had been ruined by the sudden unexpected deaths from pneumonia, when her parents were children, of both of her successful grandfathers. Very soon, she began receiving the message that she was somehow supposed to regain what had been lost, since her parents had been trying very hard to do so but somehow not quite succeeding. The road to success turned out to be through new territory and offered important insights about the emotional needs of humans and the good and bad sides of gender expectations for both men and women. Two permanent detours made it end in an entirely different place than it would have if she had listened to her family or traveled in earlier centuries.
Early Twentieth-century Suburbs in North Carolina
Author: Catherine W. BishirPublisher: North Carolina Division of Archives & History
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
"All Modern Conveniences"
Author: Elizabeth Paige MeszarosPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
"This dissertation argues that city planners and boosters in 1920's Raleigh, North Carolina, advocated that she was to be a "residence city" based on single-family homes in exclusive suburbs for the white middle-class. However, both realtor-developers and private homeowners chipped away at the symbol of the "residence city." Raleigh was to be modern, but it was a modernity based not just on the rhetoric of city leaders who emphasized the single-family home. It was a modernity based on the actions and desires of realtor-developers who were anxious to exploit the new architectural form of the apartment house. It was also a modernity based on the decisions of individual, private, homeowners to incorporate non-family members into their households to earn additional income and contribute to their family's economic prosperity. Homeowners in some ways rejected the "residence city" because they rented out portions of their homes to non-family members. In other ways, they embraced the symbols of the white, affluent, suburb by insisting on architectural solutions, such as porches and private entrances, which emphasized the value of privacy and by complying with restrictive housing covenants which barred sale or rental of properties to African Americans in perpetuity. Realtor-developers also rejected the "residence city" because they chose to invest money in multi-family apartment houses in addition to single-family home developments like Boylan Heights, Cameron Park, Glenwood-Brooklyn, and Oakwood. The "residence city" was a philosophy put forth by city boosters in which the single-family home became the symbol of progress and refinement--a modern philosophy for a modern place. It was the way in which Raleigh business leaders expressed the concept of the "suburban ideal" locally. In the eyes of these city boosters, Raleigh would not be a city of transients and renters instead, it would become a bastion of southern success through an army of white, affluent, suburban homeowners. The "residence city" was newly constructed in the 1920s to help control the socio-economic composition of Raleigh's suburbs as they competed for land space with already established communities that did not conform to the vision of racially and economically sorted neighborhoods. The popularity of multi-family housing solutions in the form of boarding houses, apartments within single-family houses, and new apartment houses contradicted the vision of the "residence city" made up of single-family, suburban homes. This study contributes to the fields of urban history, suburban history, southern history, and architectural history because it examines Raleigh's transition from a town to a modern, southern city filled with new technologies and experimental housing forms. Most importantly, this dissertation contributes to the history of the New urban South and vernacular architecture history in terms of examining traditional multi-family housing patterns, the introduction of newer, more modern multi-family housing options, and to suburban history by using an analysis of housing records (including city directories, newspaper classifieds, historic property registration and nomination forms, and suburban promotional brochures) coupled with modern fieldwork photographs. The tension between how Raleigh boosters, realtor-developers, and residents in the early decades of the twentieth century defined the "residence city," in symbolic terms, and the actual practices of middle-class homeowners and realtor-developers alters our understanding of the history of the American suburb."--Abstract from author supplied metadata.
The Cumulative Book Index
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
The New Werner Twentieth Century Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Phase 1 Regional Rail System, Durham and Wake Counties
Author: Twentieth Century Encyclopædia
Author: Charles MorrisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 818
Book Description