In My Life Before the Fire, William R. Mitchell has caught that sense of "peace and sufficiency" expressed "in words of the child I was," in the "tone, perspective, and psychological validity of the child." He argues that "the means to live worthily and joyfully" are also available to our own age, "once the possibility of doing so is awakened. It is this awakening I hope my little book will make possible."

My life before the fire

Biographies & Memoirs

Mitchell, William R.

Memoirs

Voices of the Advent Publications

Captures the elegance and style of the residential designs of the architect, William Frank McCall Jr. during the final years of his career. The book includes interior and exterior photographs, and verbal descriptions of over 50 commissions, many in Georgia, undertaken from 1985 1991.

McCall: A Continuing Tradition : Wm. Frank McCall, Jr., Faia 1914-1991

Arts & Photography

Martin, Van Jones

Architecture

Golden Coast

The Residential Architecture of Henry Sprott Long and Associates

A chronicle of the domestic side of Long's practice, beginning with a biographical sketch and detailed observations of his firm’s work. It is also a testament to the lasting appeal of his work―a clear but quiet simplicity, with due respect for the needs and tastes of his clients and the standards of classicism.

The Residential Architecture of Henry Sprott Long & Associates

Golden Coast Pub Co

Photographs and information on the collection of author.

Edward Vason Jones 1909-1980: Architect, Connoisseur, and Collector

History

Americas

A chronicle of the domestic side of Long's practice, beginning with a biographical sketch and detailed observations of his firm’s work. It is also a testament to the lasting appeal of his work―a clear but quiet simplicity, with due respect for the needs and tastes of his clients and the standards of classicism.

Captures the elegance and style of the residential designs of the architect, William Frank McCall Jr. during the final years of his career. The book includes interior and exterior photographs, and verbal descriptions of over 50 commissions, many in Georgia, undertaken from 1985 1991.

A Continuing Tradition: Wm. Frank Mccall, Jr., Faia

James Collier Means (1904–79), known simply as Jimmy, was a Georgia architect of the “old school” and one of the last of the master builders, the original meaning of architect. The houses that Means designed and built in the early 1950s are the culmination of more than seventy years of Georgia classicism and fine examples of his craftsmanship.

The Architecture of James Means

Founded in 1809, Madison, Georgia, is often mentioned as the prototypical small Southern town. This lavishly illustrated volume offers a portrait of its grand homes and manicured gardens, providing an engaging history of the town's architecture, culture, congregations, and citizenry.

Madison: A Classic Southern Town

Thomas County and its county seat of Thomasville share a history that is surprising and unique and punctuated with ironies large and small. Deep in rural southwest Georgia and only fifty miles from the Gulf of Mexico, Thomasville seems almost typical—an attractive southern town with a dignified, well-designed courthouse. Trains pull slowly past the pleasant, brick-paved streets of a nineteenth-century downtown, and tree-shaded neighborhoods gradually give way to a rolling, red-hill countryside of pine forests broken here and there by well-tended fields of cotton, peanuts, and soybeans.
Look a bit closer, however, and one will discover a truly remarkable place—a stunning visual landscape, both natural and man-made, historically populated by a cast of clever and industrious local citizens symbiotically collaborating with wealthy and influential northerners who came south for a visit and stayed for generations.
Thomasville and Thomas County have flourished by successfully adapting to whatever challenges lay before them. Through the efforts of the Thomas County Historical Society and Thomasville Landmarks, Thomasville has become recognized as a leader in state and national preservation efforts. Successes are evidenced not only by signature standards such as the architecturally significant Lapham-Patterson House but also by increasing affordable and attractive housing in lowerprofile neighborhood renovations.
Thomasville: Unique History, Elegant Homes, and Southern Hospitality is a testament to the collective hard work and determination of a great southern city’s will to survive and flourish for generations.

Thomasville: Unique History, Elegant Homes, and Southern Hospitality

Shows and describes gardens in each region of the state, and includes both public and private gardens

Gardens of Georgia

Photography & Video

Peachtree Pub Ltd

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