Author: George Fletcher BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Early Architecture of Delaware
Author: George Fletcher BennettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Early Architecture of Delaware (Classic Reprint)
Author: George Fletcher BennettPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781334243011
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Excerpt from Early Architecture of Delaware Joseph tatnall house. 1803 Market Street. Built 1770. Anthony Wayne's headquarters. Washington came here daily to hold council with Wayne, Lafayette and other officers before the battle of Brandywine. After that battle it was occupied by British Officers. Joseph Tatnall owned and operated the original our mills on the Brandywine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."
Architecture and Rural Life in Central Delaware, 1700-1900
Author: Bernard L. HermanPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 9780870496325
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
"A pioneering account of mid-Atlantic folk architecture and of the nineteenth-century transformation of traditional agriculture. . . . A major study of American vernacular architecture."--Dell Upton, University of California, Berkeley "Bernard L. Herman has provided us with a model study in the interdisciplinary interpretation of a common landscape."--Robert Blair St. George, Journal of American Folklore "An impressive study that adds an important dimension to our understanding of the built environment."--Clifford E. Clark Jr., American Historical Review "A wide range of reader expectations will be met by this book. Herman provides a focused community study as well as an interpretation of vernacular architecture in the Mid-Atlantic region."--John Michael Vlach, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians "Scholars will be impressed by Herman's ability to marshal different kinds of evidence to buttress his contention that architecture reveals not just how people materially ordered their lives but helped 'to create and maintain order, to project images of self and community, and to control meaning in social discourse.'"--Choice The Author: Bernard L. Herman teaches at the University of Delaware, where is a professor of art history and senior research fellow at the Center for Historic Architecture and Design. Among his many publications are Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic: Looking at Buildings and Landscapes (co-author with Gabrielle M. Lanier) and Historical Architectural and the Study of American Culture (co-editor with Lu Ann De Cunzo).
The Delaware Valley in the Early Republic
Author: Gabrielle M. LanierPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801879661
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
"Gabrielle M. Lanier challenges prevailing characterizations of the region as culturally monolithic and reassesses its role in the formation of a distinctly American identity through the history, geography, and architecture of three of the valley's diverse cultural landscapes. Through narratives of individual lives, aggregate data from tax rolls and censuses, archival research, and close analysis of the built vernacular environment, Lanier examines the unique ethnic, class, and religious constitution of each subregion, as well as its racial diversity, political orientation, economic organization, and cultural imprint on the landscape."--Jacket.
Colonial Architecture
Author: George Fletcher BennettPublisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Details the influence of Dutch, Swedish, and English colonization on examples of colonial architecture built betwen 1660-1840. Frame, brick, and stone residences, churches, public buildings, and even outhouses are shown, along with scores of architectural details including windows, doors, and an extraordinary number of interior images featuring fireplaces, paneled rooms, and much more. A section of measured drawings and profiles are invaluable to those hoping to restore or recreate these wonderful expressions by the earliest American architects.
Buildings of Delaware
Author: William Barksdale MaynardPublisher:
ISBN: 9780813928722
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Buildings of Delaware will provide scholars with valuable information on the architecture of the state, and will spark the imagination of general readers and local historians as well.A volume in the Buildings of the United States series of the Society of Architectural Historians
Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic
Author: Gabrielle M. LanierPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801853258
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
Everyday Architecture of the Mid-Atlantic gives proof to the insights architecture offers into who we are culturally as a community, a region, and a nation.
Historic Architecture in Northwest Philadelphia
Author: Joseph MinardiPublisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN: 9780764341984
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Historic Architecture in Northwest Philadelphia is a colorful and comprehensive look at the rich architectural history of the Wissahickon Valley, and the people who made it possible with a locally sourced building stone, the Wissahickon schist. The simple stone structures of Germantown's origins as a village of German immigrants laid the groundwork for the more elaborate buildings for Philadelphia's rising mercantile class that followed. From the colonial period to the 1930s, this architectural tour explores 450 structures, many still standing and well preserved, in the area from Wayne Junction in Germantown to Northwest Avenue in Chestnut Hill. A wide variety of architectural styles and influences are captured in nearly 750 modern day and archival images, including the Georgian, Colonial, and Federal styles of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; the Revival of those styles and others; Italianate; Second Empire; and Romantic Eclecticism. This extensive architectural review is ideal for architects, historians, and residents of Northwest Philadelphia.
Historic Architecture of Pennsylvania
Author: Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
ISBN: 9780764342752
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Nestled among the rolling hills of South Central Pennsylvania, six counties – Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, and York – are home to more than three centuries of history and architecture. Beginning with early eighteenth century buildings, almost every style of American architecture is featured in the region's mid-sized cities, charming towns, and quaint villages. Susquehanna Valley buildings showcase excellent examples of Colonial, Early Republic, Victorian, and twentieth-century architectural movements. Featured are educational narratives of three dozen styles as well as special sections on a variety of building types, including farmers' markets and train stations, all brought to life by more than 180 full-color photos. Join author and photographer Scott D. Butcher on an enlightening tour featuring the best of American architecture as seen through the eyes of the region's architects and builders.
Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England
Author: Anne M. MyersPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421408007
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Our built environment inspires writers to reflect on the human experience, discover its history, or make it up. Buildings tell stories. Castles, country homes, churches, and monasteries are “documents” of the people who built them, owned them, lived and died in them, inherited and saved or destroyed them, and recorded their histories. Literature and Architecture in Early Modern England examines the relationship between sixteenth- and seventeenth-century architectural and literary works. By becoming more sensitive to the narrative functions of architecture, Anne M. Myers argues, we begin to understand how a range of writers viewed and made use of the material built environment that surrounded the production of early modern texts in England. Scholars have long found themselves in the position of excusing or explaining England’s failure to achieve the equivalent of the Italian Renaissance in the visual arts. Myers proposes that architecture inspired an unusual amount of historiographic and literary production, including poetry, drama, architectural treatises, and diaries. Works by William Camden, Henry Wotton, Ben Jonson, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Anne Clifford, and John Evelyn, when considered as a group, are texts that overturn the engrained critical notion that a Protestant fear of idolatry sentenced the visual arts and architecture in England to a state of suspicion and neglect.