The Architecture of Choice: Eclecticism in America, 1880-1930

Hardcover Book The Architecture of Choice: Eclecticism in America, 1880-1930

Arts & Photography

Kidney, Walter C.

Architecture

George Braziller

Illustrated in B/W. A perceptive, witty, and personal guide to eclecticism in America. Index. 178p.

Uses case histories to show how small towns can organize an historic preservation group, save properties, and plan restoration work

Historic Preservation in Small Towns: A Manual of Practice

Politics & Social Sciences

Ziegler, Arthur P.

Social Sciences

Amer Assn for State & Local

The Three Rivers

Pittsburgh History &

Landmark Architecture: Pittsburgh and Allegheny County

Central Wholesale

This publication is a tribute to Allegheny Cemetery, one of the most picturesque places in Pittsburgh, where Pittsburgh history curiously comes alive. Founded in 1844, Allegheny Cemetery is an unexpectedly romantic place in Pittsburgh, so long an industrial city. Allegheny Cemetery was laid out by John Chislett, Pittsburgh's first professional architect and subsequently directed by prominent American landscape architect William Falconer. Many famous Pittsburghers are buried there, those who had local wealth and power and those nationally known such as Stephen Collins Foster and Lillian Russell. The book includes an essay describing the Cemetery's history, architecture, and landscape, and a guide to 195 significant burial places and buildings.

Allegheny Cemetery: A Romantic Landscape in Pittsburgh

History

Americas

Pittsburgh's Bridges: Architecture and Engineering

Science & Math

Technology

The excerpts that compose Life's Riches come from ten books by Walter C. Kidney, architectural historian of the Pittsburgh History Landmarks Foundation from the 1980s until December 2005. They were compiled for a reading of the late author's works on January 24, 2006, at the Soldiers' and Sailors' National Military Museum and Memorial in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Life's Riches:Excerpts on the Pittsburgh Region and Historic Preservation from the Writings of Walter C. Kidney

Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation

Oakland, located two miles east of downtown Pittsburgh, is a place where people have gone to enjoy rustic tranquility, culture, socialization, entertainment, and education. Through more than 150 years, much has changed in this neighborhood. Where children once caught crayfish, a fantastic skyscraper rose, a Greek Revival villa yielded to a hospital, a trolley barn turned into a sports arena, a fountain was created on a buried bridge, and a hillside cow pasture became a university campus. Bit by bit, this municipal showplace came into being through an attempt to improve the Smoky City by establishing a sprawling museum complex, a vast park, universities, clubhouses, auditoriums, a glamourous hotel, apartments, and a model neighborhood of houses.

Oakland

Carnegie Library Of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundatio

Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

Henry Hornbostel: An Architect's Master Touch

Roberts Rinehart

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