Cinderella Stories: Transformations of Historic Birmingham Buildings

Marjorie L. White

Birmingham Historical Society

A large format summary of the recording projects at active and historic industrial sites during the years 1992-1997 Sponsored by the Birmingham Historical Society with the Historic American Engineering Record-National Park Service, 1997.

Birmingham Bound: An Atlas of the South's Premier Industrial Region 1850-present

Philip Morris

225 photographs from the Civil Rights era in Birmingham, original news accounts, and recollections from those who conceived and lived the era. Also included are Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth's speeches and Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights annual reports. Leading off with a preface from Rev. Fred L. Shuttlesworth, the book intentionally tells the story from the Movement perspective, through the eyes of the strong network of Christian churches which banded together throughout the city of Birmingham to stage a God-filled, non-violent confrontation to banish segregation.

A Walk to Freedom

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Limited Edition(Unstated Number Published)...101 Pages

A Guide to Architectural Styles featuring Birmingham Homes

From 1926 to 1929, the Jemison & Co. real estate firm of Birmingham, Alabama, assembled a team of talented professionals to design a residential district in a rugged wilderness south of the city. Led by celebrated landscape architect and planner Warren H. Manning of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jemison's team integrated homes, recreation, and community amenities into a park-like setting, retaining and intensifying the area's natural beauty.  By the 1950s, the 4,500-acre Mountain Brook development would become one of the highest per capita income communities in America. This book details the process by which planners worked out their vision and presents documentation prepared by Birmingham Historical Society for the Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS), a program of the National Park Service in Washington, D.C. It includes more than 200 historic and contemporary photographs and drawings.

Mountain Brook - A Historic American Landscape

Richard Anderson

Birgit Kibelka

Shades Creek: Flowing through Time tells the story of waters and tributaries touching the shores of Birmingham, Mountain Brook, Homewood, Hoover, Bessemer and other stretches of Jefferson, Bibb and Shelby County, Alabama. Far more than a trickling stream on a slow mosey, Shades Creek has shaped, supported and influenced life on its journey to today. Learn of explorers and Native Americans; Civil War iron-making; the water's nurturing of native plants and wildlife; and how Shades Creek shaped modern times by providing inspiration to regional planners like Warren Manning and the Olmsted Brothers. Read too of problems in this paradise, brought on by bad judgments or good intentions gone wrong; and of the environmental groups rallying to rescue and protect the treasure. 216 pages, lavishly illustrated with more than 50 maps and 250 photographs

Shades Creek–Flowing Through Time

History

Birmingham’s City Beautiful movement of the early 20th century encouraged everyone to clean up, to paint, and to beautify their homes, their businesses, and their city and to protect the naturally beautiful, native environment in which Birmingham, Alabama is located. Championed by Mayor and City Commission President George Ward (1905-1917) and tutored by nationally prominent landscape designer Warren H. Manning, Birmingham’s civic and club leaders forged a long-term public/private partnership to improve sanitary conditions, acquire land for parks and recreation, and group governmental buildings about a central park as a civic center. This book is the story of the Birmingham’s City Beautiful campaigns to create a livable urban environment—“healthy and happy to live in”—and to its primary advocate and leader: George B. Ward.

Birmingham: The City Beautiful, Compliments of G. Ward

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