This fully illustrated volume explores the exceptional architectural legacy of Waxahachie, Texas. Beginning with the landmark Ellis County Courthouse designed by James Riely Gordon, the guidebook documents residential, commercial, and institutional buildings--both large and small--as well as the individuals who designed, built, and owned them.&nbsp;Styles, forms, architects, builders, owners, and occupants are identified and described, giving insight not only into the town's architectural riches and building culture, but also into its economic and social history.&nbsp;The authors offer new documentation for many buildings through their use of original sources, including early newspapers and mechanics' liens, and an extensive knowledge of the period design books that were so popular with Waxahachie lumberyards.&nbsp;Concentrating on the downtown and the older neighborhoods, the Waxahachie Architecture Guidebook is an invaluable resource for visitors, curious residents, and anyone studying the buildings and architecture of Texas. &nbsp;&nbsp;

Waxahachie Architecture Guidebook

Travel

Beasley, Ellen

Culbertson, Margaret

United States

TCU Press

Interweaving written documents, oral interviews, and pictorial images, Beasley presents a vivid picture of Galveston's alleys and alley life from the founding of the city into the twentieth century. The book blends a unique combination of research, photography, and the voices of those who have lived and live along the alleys. Beasley has uncovered and analyzed a wealth of new information not only about the back buildings of Galveston but also about their occupants and the complex cultural forces at work in their lives. The result is a significant contribution to the fields of architectural and urban history as well as to African American studies.

The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston: An Architectural and Social History

History

Americas

Rice Univ Pr

Galveston contains the largest and most historically significant collection of nineteenth-century buildings of any Texas city. As a result of preservation efforts in recent years, Galveston’s architecture and history have risen to national prominence. This is the first comprehensive guide to the architecture of this unusual Gulf Coast city. The Galveston Architecture Guidebook includes the city’s imposing business blocks, institutional buildings, and houses, both large and small. Conceived in the nineteenth century, Galveston’s town plan was highly sophisticated, reflecting the city’s role as a major Southern port from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the twentieth century. The guidebook also addresses more recent architectural episodes, such as the growth of the city’s highly acclaimed medical center, the development of its neighborhoods, and the evolution of its beach front. Each entry in the guidebook includes a photograph, an identifying number keyed to a tour map, as well as historical, descriptive, and critical commentary. Also included are several appendices for easy reference: an illustrated building typology, an architectural glossary, and a selected bibliography. The Galveston Architectural Guidebook will be invaluable to all those who visit Galveston. Historic preservationists, scholars of nineteenth-century material culture, architects, and historians will be fascinated by the broad range of buildings and urban conditions it documents. Finally, anyone interested in Galveston or the Gulf Coast will find in this book a wealth of information. Preservationist Ellen Beasley has received the Rome Prize in Urban Planning and Design at the American Academy in Rome and a Loeb Fellowship to the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the author of The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston, published by Rice University Press in 1996. Architectural historian Stephen Fox is a Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas and has written extensively about Houston and Texas architecture.

Galveston Architecture Guidebook

Fox, Stephen

Galveston Historical Foundation

Galveston contains the largest and most historically significant collection of nineteenth-century buildings of any Texas city. As a result of preservation efforts in recent years, Galveston’s architecture and history have risen to national prominence. This is the first comprehensive guide to the architecture of this unusual Gulf Coast city. The Galveston Architecture Guidebook includes the city’s imposing business blocks, institutional buildings, and houses, both large and small. Conceived in the nineteenth century, Galveston’s town plan was highly sophisticated, reflecting the city’s role as a major Southern port from the end of the Civil War to the turn of the twentieth century. The guidebook also addresses more recent architectural episodes, such as the growth of the city’s highly acclaimed medical center, the development of its neighborhoods, and the evolution of its beach front. Each entry in the guidebook includes a photograph, an identifying number keyed to a tour map, as well as historical, descriptive, and critical commentary. Also included are several appendices for easy reference: an illustrated building typology, an architectural glossary, and a selected bibliography. The Galveston Architectural Guidebook will be invaluable to all those who visit Galveston. Historic preservationists, scholars of nineteenth-century material culture, architects, and historians will be fascinated by the broad range of buildings and urban conditions it documents. Finally, anyone interested in Galveston or the Gulf Coast will find in this book a wealth of information. Preservationist Ellen Beasley has received the Rome Prize in Urban Planning and Design at the American Academy in Rome and a Loeb Fellowship to the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She is the author of The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston, published by Rice University Press in 1996. Architectural historian Stephen Fox is a Fellow of the Anchorage Foundation of Texas and has written extensively about Houston and Texas architecture.

The Corner Store by Ellen Beasley is a project funded by the National Building Museum to present a history of corner stores in Galveston, Texas. It is full of rich history as well as intriguing photographs.

The corner store: An American tradition, Galveston style

National Building Museum

Alleys and back buildings have been largely overlooked in studies of the American urban environment. And yet, rental alley houses, servant and slave quarters, carriage houses, stables, and other secondary structures have lined the alleys and filled the backyards of Galveston since its early days as a growing port city on the upper Texas Gulf Coast. Like their counterparts in other cities, these buildings and their inhabitants have had a profound visual, physical, and social impact on the history and development of Galveston. Interweaving written documents, oral interviews, and pictorial images, Beasley presents a vivid picture of Galveston’s alleys and alley life from the founding of the city into the twentieth century. The book blends a unique combination of research, photography, and the voices of those who have lived and live along the alleys. Beasley has uncovered and analyzed a wealth of new information not only about the back buildings of Galveston but also about their occupants and the complex cultural forces at work in their lives.

The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston: An Architectural and Social History (Volume 10) (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities)

Texas A&M University Press

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Waxahachie Architecture Guidebook

The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston: An Architectural and Social History

Galveston Architecture Guidebook

Galveston Architecture Guidebook

The corner store: An American tradition, Galveston style

The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston: An Architectural and Social History (Volume 10) (Sara and John Lindsey Series in the Arts and Humanities)