Author : Wayne Johnston
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 18,10 MB
Release : 2010-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0307375439
Baltimore's Mansion introduces us to the Johnstons of Ferryland, a Catholic colony founded by Lord Baltimore in the 1620s on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, and centres on three generations of fathers and sons. Filled with heart-stopping description and a cast of stubborn, acerbic, yet utterly irresistible family members, it is an evocation of a time and a place reminiscent of Wayne Johnston's best fiction.
Author : Charles Belfoure
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 33,38 MB
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1568989563
Perhaps no other American city is so defined by an indigenous architectural style as Baltimore is by the rowhouse, whose brick facades march up and down the gentle hills of the city. Why did the rowhouse thrive in Baltimore? How did it escape destruction here, unlike in many other historic American cities? What were the forces that led to the citywide renovation of Baltimore's rowhouses? The Baltimore Rowhouse tells the fascinating 200-year story of this building type. It chronicles the evolution of the rowhouse from its origins as speculative housing for immigrants, through its reclamation and renovation by young urban pioneers thanks to local government sponsorship, to its current occupation by a new cadre of wealthy professionals.
Author : Bernard G. Dennis
Publisher :
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN :
This collection contains 17 papers presented at the Fifth National History and Heritage Congress at the 2004 ASCE Annual Conference and Exposition, held in Baltimore, Maryland, October 20-23, 2004.
Author : Patricia Chambers Walker
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 50,60 MB
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742503441
The first comprehensive guide to America's historic house museums, this directory moves beyond merely listing institutions to providing information about interpretive themes, historical and architectural significance, collections, and cultural and social importance, along with programming events and facility information. Useful cross-reference guides provide quick and easy ways of locating information on almost 2500 museums. A multi-functional reference for museum professionals, local historians, historic preservationists or anyone interested in America's historic house museums.
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 1841
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Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
Page : 1700 pages
File Size : 36,54 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN :
Author : American Association for the Advancement of Science
Publisher :
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 21,65 MB
Release : 1868
Category :
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Author : Charles Duff
Publisher : Oro Editions
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 29,43 MB
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Atlantic Coast (Europe)
ISBN : 9781908457530
The North Atlantic Cities by Charles B. Duff, which is available for the first time in the United States, is a book on urban development and urban life masquerading as a book on architecture. It is the story of four hundred years of architecture and urban development in four countries: the Netherlands, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States, particularly cities like New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Savannah, to name a few. The author starts with a kind of building few others have considered--the row house--which could very well be the key to understanding why many of the world's great cities look and function as they do. From the 1600s to today as the author theorizes, this innocuous-seeming housing type is perhaps the antidote to suburban sprawl, urban decay, and the worst catastrophes of global climate change.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 996 pages
File Size : 20,12 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN :
Author : Antero Pietila
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 13,94 MB
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1538116049
Johns Hopkins destroyed his private papers so thoroughly that no credible biography exists of the Baltimore Quaker titan. One of America’s richest men and the largest single shareholder of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Hopkins was also one of the city’s defining developers. In The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins, Antero Pietila weaves together a biography of the man with a portrait of how the institutions he founded have shaped the racial legacy of an industrial city from its heyday to its decline and revitalization. From the destruction of neighborhoods to make way for the mercantile buildings that dominated Baltimore’s downtown through much of the 19th century to the role that the president of Johns Hopkins University played in government sponsored “Negro Removal” that unleashed the migration patterns that created Baltimore’s existing racial patchwork, Pietila tells the story of how one man’s wealth shaped and reshaped the life of a city long after his lifetime.
