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The first and only full-scale technical and stylistic analysis of 200 years of architectural evolution in northern New England
Author : James L. Garvin
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 24,9 MB
Release : 2002-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781584650997
The first and only full-scale technical and stylistic analysis of 200 years of architectural evolution in northern New England
Author : Thomas Durant Visser
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1611680654
A generously illustrated handbook for identifying and understanding structures that symbolize the region's unique cultural and historical landscape
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Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,89 MB
Release : 2001
Category :
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Author : J. Ritchie Garrison
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781572334854
Journeyman -- Performances -- Urban building -- Master builder -- Change -- Double parlor -- Cottage and mansion -- Contractor -- Monuments.
Author : Thomas C. Hubka
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781584653721
The twentieth anniversary edition of the classic architectural study of the development of the connected farm buildings made by 19th-century New Englanders, which offers insight into the people who made them.
Author : Dona Brown
Publisher : Smithsonian Books (DC)
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 17,37 MB
Release : 1995-03-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
"Quaint, charming, nostalgic New England: rustic fishing villages, romantic seaside cottages, breathtaking mountain vistas, peaceful rural settings. In Inventing New England, Dona Brown traces the creation of these calendar-page images and describes how tourism as a business emerged in the nineteenth century and came to shape the landscape, economy, and culture of a region. She examines the irony of an industry that was based on an escape from commerce but served as an engine of industrial development, spawning hotel construction, land speculation, the spread of wage labor, and a vast market for guidebooks and other publications." "By the mid-nineteenth century, New England's whaling industry was faltering, lumbering was exhausted, herring fisheries were declining, and farming was becoming less profitable. Although the region had once been viewed as a center of invention and progress, economic hardship in the countryside fueled the development of the tourist industry. Before that time, elite vacations had been defined by the "grand tour" up the Hudson River to Saratoga Springs and Niagara Falls. Recognizing the potential of middle-class vacations, promoters of tourism fashioned a vision of pastoral beauty, rural independence, virtuous simplicity, and ethnic "purity" that appealed to an emerging class of urban professionals. By the latter nineteenth century, Brown argues, tourism had become an integral part of New England's rural economy, and the short vacation a fixture of middle-class life." "Focusing on such meccas as the White Mountains, Martha's Vineyard, Nantucket, coastal Maine, and Vermont, Brown describes how failed port cities, abandoned farms, and even scenery were churned through powerful marketing engines promoting nostalgia. "Old salts" dressed in sea captains' garb were recruited to sing chanteys and to tell tales of old whaling days to crowds of mesmerized tourists. Dilapidated farmhouses, "restored" to look even older, were transformed into quaint country inns. By the late nineteenth century, much of New England was highly urbanized, industrial, and ethnically diverse. But for tourists, the "real" New England was to be found in the remote areas of the region, where they could escape from the conditions of modern urban industrial life - the very life for which New Englanders had been praised a generation earlier." "In an epilogue that addresses the "packaging" of Cape Cod in the twentieth century, Brown discusses how human choices - not scenery - create a market for tourism. With fascinating anecdotes about entrepreneurial innkeepers, farmers, and others, Inventing New England explores the early growth of a new industry that was on the cutting edge of capitalist development even though its cultural "products" appeared untainted by market transactions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Merlin D. Burt
Publisher : Review and Herald Pub Assoc
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 33,11 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0828025681
Visit the historical sites where it all began: the pioneers' homes and churches, the sites of births and deaths, the special places where visions descended and revival arose. For each landmark Adventist Pioneer Places includes maps, GPS coordinates, and captivating stories that will sweep you back in time.
Author : Priscilla Paton
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 18,98 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN :
An examination of artists and poets and the New England landscape that inspired their work.
Author : Mark Gelernter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,7 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780719047275
Why did the colonial Americans give over a significant part of their homes to a grand staircase? Why did the Victorians drape their buildings ornate decoration? And why did American buildings grow so tall in the last decades of the 19th century. This book explores the history of American architecture from prehistoric times to the present, explaining why characteristic architectural forms arose at particular times and in particular places.
Author : Harold Fisher Wilson
Publisher : New York : AMS Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 21,26 MB
Release : 1936
Category : Agriculture
ISBN :