This photographic tour, part of a two-book set, is a bittersweet tribute to the vanishing landscape of America's architectural heritage. Nearly 300 images include outstanding bridges, courthouses, churches, homes, and buildings east of the Mississippi, many of them now demolished. In addition to honoring the past, these volumes issue a warning to preserve the places that define the American sense of place and identity. Numerous historical and preservation groups, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation, contributed photographs and drawings to this collection. Illustrations range from civic buildings such as post offices and prisons to structures associated with commerce and industry—banks, markets, mills, and carriage houses. Hotels, railway stations, parks, and opera houses offer fascinating glimpses of lost architectural grandeur. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, and this edition features a new preface by the author.

Lost America, Volume I: From the Atlantic to the Mississippi (Dover Architecture)

Arts & Photography

Greiff, Constance M.

Architecture

Dover Publications

Since the spread of westward expansion, countless civic buildings, hotels, and other historic structures have been lost forever to the wrecking ball. This handsome volume of more than 300 images is part of a two-book set that chronicles America's disappearing architectural heritage. In addition to honoring the past, these volumes issue a warning to preserve the places that define the national sense of identity. Numerous historical and preservation groups, including the National Trust for Historic Preservation, contributed photographs and drawings to this collection. Illustrations range from well-known sites such as the OK Corral and Santa Fe Depot to less familiar buildings, including scores of courthouses, theaters, banks, bookstores, and magnificent private homes. Each image is accompanied by a detailed caption, and this edition features a new preface by the author.

Lost America, Volume II: From the Mississippi to the Pacific (Dover Architecture)

The description for this book, Princeton Architecture: A Pictorial History of Town and Campus, will be forthcoming.

Princeton Architecture : A Pictorial History of Town and Campus

Gibbons, Mary W.

Menzies, Elizabeth G.C.

Reference

Princeton University Press

The description for this book, Princeton Architecture: A Pictorial History of Town and Campus, will be forthcoming.

Princeton Architecture: A Pictorial History of Town and Campus

Describes the architectural styles developed during the Victorian period, including Italianate, Gothic Revival, and Second Empire, and shows examples of Victorian buildings, interiors, and furnishings

Early Victorian (Abbeville Stylebooks)

History & Criticism

Abbeville Press

Called variously Le Style Moderne, Liberty Style, and a host of other names, the style known today as Art Nouveau - the art of the new - flowered in the mid-1880s and did not fade until World War I. Predominantly a decorative style, its lushly curving forms and ornament found inspiration in nature rather than in classical shapes. As Constance M. Greiff describes in this exuberant sampler, Art Nouveau curves showed up in the Paris Metro stations, idiosyncratic buildings by Antoni Gaudi in Spain, and a seductive collection of jewelry, furniture, Tiffany lamps, Liberty textiles, wallpapers, and ceramics in which the swirling line was dominant. Art Nouveau reprises the fin de siecle, highlighting the era and its personalities, architecture, decorative designs, funishings, arts, and significant buildings - all in a delightful format that brings back the voluptuous age of Oscar Wilde and Sarah Bernhardt, Toulouse-Lautrec and Sigmund Freud. The undulant lines of Art Nouveau imprinted themselves on pendants by Rene Lalique, posters by Alphons Mucha, glass by Emile Galle, the interior of Maxim's in Paris, and apartment houses from Brussels to Barcelona. Art Nouveau presents the story of the designs and the designers who helped this new age blossom.

Art Nouveau (Abbeville Stylebooks)

Abbeville Pr

Carefully researched and fully documented, Independence chronicles the history of the "cradle of liberty" that is Independence National Historical Park, the historical site most closely connected with the nation's founding. Constance M. Greiff illustrates how the park was shaped by national events and conditions in Philadelphia, change and growth within the National Park Service, and the interpersonal and political struggles among the key people involved in the park's development. She traces the process by which the participants arrived at the ideas underpinning the park's creation and development, conflicting views about the purpose and scope of the park, and the resolution of those conflicts.Published with assistance from the Independence Hall Association, the National Park Service, and the Eastern National Parks and Monument Association.

Independence: The Creation of a National Park

History

Americas

University of Pennsylvania Press

Lost America From the Atlantic to the Mississippi

The Pyne Press

Lost America - From the Mississippi to the Pacific

Lost America - From the Mississippi to the Pacific

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Lost America, Volume I: From the Atlantic to the Mississippi (Dover Architecture)

Lost America, Volume II: From the Mississippi to the Pacific (Dover Architecture)

Princeton Architecture : A Pictorial History of Town and Campus

Princeton Architecture: A Pictorial History of Town and Campus

Early Victorian (Abbeville Stylebooks)

Art Nouveau (Abbeville Stylebooks)

Independence: The Creation of a National Park

Lost America From the Atlantic to the Mississippi

Lost America - From the Mississippi to the Pacific