This new look at historic preservation encompasses all of the disciplines involved in the field for a well-rounded portrait of the movement. In an accessible, engaging style, the authors describe who we are, what we have saved, why we preserve, as well as conservation methods and the economic, legal, and political aspects of preservation. Illustrated throughout, the book also addresses future preservation trends, policies, and programs. This essential survey helps anyone interested in historic preservation understand how they can contribute to the field and invest in their own community's cultural heritage.

Historic Preservation: Caring For Our Expanding Legacy

Arts & Photography

Tomlan, Michael A.

Listokin, David

Architecture

wiley

Today hop growing remains a viable commercial enterprise only in parts of the far western United States--notably in Washington. But, as James Fenimore Cooper remembered, the mid-nineteenth century in Cooperstown, New York, was a time when "the 'hop was king,' and the whole countryside was one great hop yard, and beautiful".In Tinged with Gold, Michael A. TomIan explores all aspects of hop culture in the United States and provides a background for understanding the buildings devoted to drying, baling, and storing hops. The work considers the history of these structures as it illustrates their development over almost two centuries, the result of agrarian commercialism and nearly continuous technological improvement. In examining the context in which the buildings were constructed, Tomlan considers the growth, cultivation, and harvesting of the plant; the economic, social, and recreational activities of the people involved in hop culture; and the record of mechanical invent

Tinged With Gold: Hop Culture in the United States

History

Americas

Univ of Georgia Pr

Today hop growing remains a viable commercial enterprise only in parts of the far western United States―notably in Washington. But, as James Fenimore Cooper remembered, the mid-nineteenth century in Cooperstown, New York, was a time when "the 'hop was king,' and the whole countryside was one great hop yard, and beautiful".
In Tinged with Gold, Michael A. TomIan explores all aspects of hop culture in the United States and provides a background for understanding the buildings devoted to drying, baling, and storing hops. The work considers the history of these structures as it illustrates their development over almost two centuries, the result of agrarian commercialism and nearly continuous technological improvement. In examining the context in which the buildings were constructed, Tomlan considers the growth, cultivation, and harvesting of the plant; the economic, social, and recreational activities of the people involved in hop culture; and the record of mechanical inventions and technical developments that shaped hop kilns, hop houses, and hop driers and coolers in the various areas where the crop flourished. The work challenges assumptions about the noncommercial nature of American agriculture in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and raises important questions about the "folk" tradition of hop houses, arguing that the designs of these buildings were rational responses to commercial imperatives rather than the continuance of arcane English or European customs. 
Tinged with Gold brings hop culture to life as it explores the history of this neglected aspect of rural agriculture. Because the work demonstrates that the significance of a relatively obscure building type can be fully appreciated if placed in its historical context, it provides a model for studying other rural structures. Drawing upon an impressive array of primary and secondary sources, this work is a definitive history of hop culture in the United States.

Tinged with Gold: Hop Culture in the United States

Business & Money

Industries

University of Georgia Press

A city’s history is made visible in its buildings, structures, sites and landscaping. A history of the architecture of Richmond, Indiana, is explored in this new book through more than 130 illustrations, including maps, subdivision plats, aerial views, and streetscapes that put individual buildings in their urban settings. The book gives readers access to Richmond’s history by examining its physical nature along with a broad range of factors involved in decades of growth and change. For readers who are familiar with Richmond, the book brings a fresh understanding of a well known place; for those just being introduced to Richmond, the book presents ideas applicable to the study of other communities, and an understanding of how developments in one community contribute to a broader state or national picture.

Richmond Indiana: Its Physical Development and Aesthetic Heritage to 1920

Tomlan, Mary Raddant

Indiana Historical Society

This well-illustrated book offers an up-to-date synthesis of the field of historic preservation, cast as a social campaign concerned with the condition, treatment and use of the legacy of existing properties in the United States. Drawing on a wide range of research, experience and scholarship over the last fifty years, it allows us to re-think past and current ideas in preservation, challenging readers to explore how their own interests lie within the cognitive framework of the activities taking place with people who care. “Who” is involved is explored first, in such a way as to explore “why”, before examining “what” is deemed important. After that the questions of “when” and “how” to proceed are given attention.
The major topics are introduced in an historical review through the mid-1980s, after which the broad intellectual basis and fundamental legal framework is provided. The economic shifts associated with major demographic changes are explored, in tandem with responses of the preservation community. A chapter is dedicated to the financial challenges and sources of revenue available in typical preservation projects, and another chapter focuses on the manner in which seeing, recording, and interpreting information provides the context for an appropriate vision for the future. In this regard, it is made clear that not all “green” design alternatives are preservation-sensitive. The advocacy battles during the last few decades provide a number of short stories of the ethical battles regarding below-ground and above ground historic resources, and the eighth chapter attempts to explain why religion has been long held at arm’s length in publicly-supported preservation efforts, when in fact, it holds more potential to regenerate existing sites than any governmental program.

Historic Preservation: Caring for Our Expanding Legacy

Reference

Springer

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