Author: Chan GrahamPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692322932
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
A book of photographs of historic houses in the Downtown Neighborhoods Association
Historic Houses in the DNA
Author: Chan GrahamPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692322932
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 45
Book Description
A book of photographs of historic houses in the Downtown Neighborhoods Association
Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Family History of New York
Author: William Smith PelletreauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
New Jersey's Historic Houses
Author: Sibyl McC. GroffHistoric Houses of Early America
Author: Elise LathropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Historic Houses of Early America
Author: Elsie LathropPublisher:
ISBN: 9781494118341
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.
The Homes of Our Forefathers
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture, Colonial
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
If this House Could Talk--
Author: Elizabeth Smith BrownsteinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Descriptions of around twenty American homes, including Auldbrass Plantation near Yemessee, South Carolina.
Americas Historic Houses Living
Author: OutletGreat Historic Houses of America
Author: OutletHistoric House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom
Author: Linda YoungPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442239778
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Historic House Museums in the United States and the United Kingdom: A History addresses the phenomenon of historic houses as a distinct species of museum. Everyone understands the special nature of an art museum, a national museum, or a science museum, but “house museum” nearly always requires clarification. In the United States the term is almost synonymous with historic preservation; in the United Kingdom, it is simply unfamiliar, the very idea being conflated with stately homes and the National Trust. By analyzing the motivation of the founders, and subsequent keepers, of house museums, Linda Young identifies a typology that casts light on what house museums were intended to represent and their significance (or lack thereof) today. This book examines: • heroes’ houses: once inhabited by great persons (e.g., Shakespeare’s birthplace, Washington’s Mount Vernon); • artwork houses: national identity as specially visible in house design, style, and technique (e.g., Frank Lloyd Wright houses, Modernist houses); • collectors’ houses: a microcosm of collecting in situ domesticu, subsequently presented to the nation as the exemplars of taste (e.g., Sir John Soane’s Museum, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum); • English country houses: the palaces of the aristocracy, maintained thanks to primogeniture but threatened with redundancy and rescued as museums to be touted as the peak of English national culture; English country houses: the palaces of the aristocracy, maintained for centuries thanks to primogeniture but threatened by redundancy and strangely rescued as museums, now touted as the peak of English national culture; • Everyman/woman’s social history houses: the modern, demotic response to elite houses, presented as social history but tinged with generic ancestor veneration (e.g., tenement house museums in Glasgow and New York).