The romance of the West is nowhere so compelling as in its irreplaceable architecture: a silvery log cabin perched at 12,000 feet; a steeple-topped chalet beside an alpine lake. The culmination of a decade of research, Landmarks in the Landscape unveils this oft overlooked national treasure, visiting each of the Western national parks. Amidst majestic settings we discover the history of great dreams in the early West, including the struggles and triumphs of John Muir, Stephen Mather of the National Park Service, and architects Underwood and Colter. From the rain forests of the Olympic Peninsula to the sienna walls of the Grand Canyon, this comprehensive, extravagantly illustrated survey will thrill all who admire the rugged beauty of the West.

Landmarks in the Landscape: Historic Architecture in the National Parks of the West

Arts & Photography

Kaiser, Harvey H.

Photography & Video

Chronicle Books LLC.

Facilities Manager's Reference Management Planning Building Audits Estimating

Reference

R.S. Means Co.

For today's facilities manager, the need has never been greater for current information on construction and maintenance costs, selection criteria, and efficient management practices.

Maintenance Management Audit: A Step-By-Step Workbook to Better Your Facility's Bottom Line

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

This lovely 240 page book is filled with dozens of photos, both color and black and white along with text descriptions of many of the great camps of the Adirondack Mountains in New York State as well as a comprehensive history of the camps.

Great Camps of the Adirondacks

Travel

Food, Lodging & Transportation

David R. Godine

An illustrated survey of the innovative, wood-and-stone camp buildings found deep in the woods of the Adirondack region examines in detail the magnificent country homes of the Vanderbilts, Morgans, and Whitneys

Architecture

The Facilities Audit: A Process for Improving Facilities Conditions

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Appa Assn of Higher Education

The growth of campus physical resources a a major component of capital assets, concern for the condition of physical plants, and the rising cost of maintenance and operations have focused attention on how campuses manage facilities. This volume provides infomation on facilities management for institutional researchers. The authors represented in this volume reflect on the why, what, and how of the way they do their jobs. Each chapter is enriched by theories and applications, and the topics addressed in the chapters evolve in a sequence that moves from a global perspective to specific issues. This is the 61st issue of New Directions for Institutional Research.

Planning and Managing Higher Education Facilities: New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 61 (J-B IR Single Issue Institutional Research)

Jossey-Bass

Adolph Lewisohn, requiring a staff of forty to minister to his guests' comfort in the wilds of the Adirondacks, imported to his camp a major-domo, barber, caddy, chess-player, singing teacher, and two chauffeurs, Majorie Merriweather Post made do with eighty-five servants for the sixty-five building of Topridge, which was approached by a private funicular railway and graced by a Russian dacha a token of affection for her third husband, a former ambassador to the Soviet Union. Equally magnificent was J.P. Morgan's Camp Uncas, Julius Bache's Wenonah Lodge, and William Seward Webb's Nehasane. These 'Great Camps' were to the beautiful and secluded Adirondack region what the 'Cottages' were to Newport: contradictions in terminology, but marvels of construction and architectural imagination. Truly fabulous structures, built primarily of wood and stone and set deep among the great forests, they are at once relics of a bygone age and prototypes for the contemporary architect, amateur builder, and historian. Harvey Kaiser traces the history of the Adirondacks from their first sighting by a European in 1535, through the eras of trapping, iron mining, and lumbering, to the development of railroad and steamboat lines that led to the influx of tourists and the building of the 'Great Camps.' The sixty years from 1870 to 1930 were the heyday of these camps, the 'Gilded Age' of the Adirondacks, and Kaiser give a fascinating account both of the personalities who engineered and financed these fabulous structures and of the buildings themselves... More than forty years after the Depression put an end to this princely life-style, the camps themselves are threatened by the forces of politics and nature. In Great Camps of the Adirondacks, Harvey Kaiser make a strong case for preservation: the obliteration of these remarkable structures would be an irreparable loss not only to our architectural heritage but to every individual to whom they are a resource and an inspiration.

David R. Godine, Publisher

The publication of the original Great Camps of the Adirondacks in 1982 helped launch new and much needed public attention to the importance and plight of Great Camps and the rustic architecture of the Adirondack region. Before Great Camps, there were a handful of public crises and uncertainties about their future and, on the heels of the book, came a new wave of awareness, appreciation, and stewardship of this remarkable architecture. It is our hope that this expanded edition will similarly inspire and inform readers about the state of these camps and their surrounding environments today. Truly fabulous structures, built primarily of wood and stone and set deep among the great forests, they are at once relics of a bygone age and prototypes for the contemporary architect, amateur builder, and historian. Kaiser gives a fascinating account both of the personalities who engineered and financed these fabulous structures and of the buildings themselves.

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

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Landmarks in the Landscape: Historic Architecture in the National Parks of the West

Facilities Manager's Reference Management Planning Building Audits Estimating

Maintenance Management Audit: A Step-By-Step Workbook to Better Your Facility's Bottom Line

Great Camps of the Adirondacks

Great Camps of the Adirondacks

The Facilities Audit: A Process for Improving Facilities Conditions

Planning and Managing Higher Education Facilities: New Directions for Institutional Research, Number 61 (J-B IR Single Issue Institutional Research)

Great Camps of the Adirondacks

Great Camps of the Adirondacks