Preserving America's Heritage of Historic Sites and Buildings
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Page : 21 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 1947*
Category : Historic buildings
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Author :
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Page : 21 pages
File Size : 23,73 MB
Release : 1947*
Category : Historic buildings
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Author : National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings
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Page : 24 pages
File Size : 42,7 MB
Release : 1959
Category : Historic sites
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Author : United States
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Page : 102 pages
File Size : 14,61 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Government publications
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Author : International Council on Monuments and Sites. U.S. Committee
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 23,46 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780814327197
Exploring the history of the American preservation movement, this book features a collection of essays by leading scholars, historians, and attorneys who discuss the role of federal, state, and local government; ethnicity; archaeology; and the private sector.
Author : National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,54 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Architecture
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Author : National Register of Historic Places
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 1995-07-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780471143451
Culled from the records of the National Register of Historic Places, a roster of all types of significant properties across the United States, African American Historic Places includes over 800 places in 42 states and two U.S. territories that have played a role in black American history. Banks, cemeteries, clubs, colleges, forts, homes, hospitals, schools, and shops are but a few of the types of sites explored in this volume, which is an invaluable reference guide for researchers, historians, preservationists, and anyone interested in African American culture. Also included are eight insightful essays on the African American experience, from migration to the role of women, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement. The authors represent academia, museums, historic preservation, and politics, and utilize the listed properties to vividly illustrate the role of communities and women, the forces of migration, the influence of the arts and heritage preservation, and the struggles for freedom and civil rights. Together they lead to a better understanding of the contributions of African Americans to American history. They illustrate the events and people, the designs and achievements that define African American history. And they pay powerful tribute to the spirit of black America.
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 16,99 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Government publications
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Preserve America is an initiative to promote preservation and foster "greater appreciation for our heritage sites--from monuments and buildings to landscapes and main streets"--Letter.
Author : James Marston Fitch
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813912721
Outlines a complete programme for the restoration and preservation of historic structures and historic sites throughout the world. It is a basic text for both the novice and the specialist covering all aspects of preservation and the forces affecting historic district planning.
Author : Whitney Martinko
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 46,8 MB
Release : 2020-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0812296990
A detailed study of early historical preservation efforts between the 1780s and the 1850s In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how Americans in the fledgling United States pointed to evidence of the past in the world around them and debated whether, and how, to preserve historic structures as permanent features of the new nation's landscape. From Indigenous mounds in the Ohio Valley to Independence Hall in Philadelphia; from Benjamin Franklin's childhood home in Boston to St. Philip's Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina; from Dutch colonial manors of the Hudson Valley to Henry Clay's Kentucky estate, early advocates of preservation strove not only to place boundaries on competitive real estate markets but also to determine what should not be for sale, how consumers should behave, and how certain types of labor should be valued. Before historic preservation existed as we know it today, many Americans articulated eclectic and sometimes contradictory definitions of architectural preservation to work out practical strategies for defining the relationship between public good and private profit. In arguing for the preservation of houses of worship and Indigenous earthworks, for example, some invoked the "public interest" of their stewards to strengthen corporate control of these collective spaces. Meanwhile, businessmen and political partisans adopted preservation of commercial sites to create opportunities for, and limits on, individual profit in a growing marketplace of goods. And owners of old houses and ancestral estates developed methods of preservation to reconcile competing demands for the seclusion of, and access to, American homes to shape the ways that capitalism affected family economies. In these ways, individuals harnessed preservation to garner political, economic, and social profit from the performance of public service. Ultimately, Martinko argues, by portraying the problems of the real estate market as social rather than economic, advocates of preservation affirmed a capitalist system of land development by promising to make it moral.
Author : Norman Tyler
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 31,98 MB
Release : 2009-01-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0393732738
A survey of concepts, techniques and procedures for preserving architectural and cultural heritage, this book has been revised to reflect the latest developments in theory in practice.