"[T]he best published overview of historic preservation... I use it as a course text." --Lauren Sickels-Taves, architectural conservator, Henry Ford Museum &amp; Greenfield Village Historic Preservation provides a thorough overview of the theory, technique, and procedure for preserving our architectural heritage. The perfect introduction for architecture students, local officials, community leaders, and the interested layperson, it covers preservation philosophy, the history of the movement, the role of national, state, and local government, the designation and documentation of historic structures, establishing a historic district, architectural styles, sensitive architectural design and planning, preservation technology, and the economics of building rehabilitation.

Historic Preservation: An Introduction to Its History, Principles, and Practice

Arts & Photography

Tyler, Norman

Architecture

W.W.Norton&Company

Authors and architects Norman and Ilene Tyler share with readers the thrill of discovering the historic significance of their house, referred to as "one of the finest Greek Revival houses in America." The account begins dramatically with the day one of the four large columns unexpectedly fell onto the front lawn, its capital shattered on the slate sidewalk. From this incident, they initiate research on the question of how and where the elaborately crafted columns were fabricated for their house during the early years of settlement in Ann Arbor, Michigan. They expand their research by visiting sites of other similar nineteenth-century Greek Revival residences in western New York State, and continue their odyssey with visits to the first Greek Revival structures in England, finally tracing the roots of their home to a particular ancient site they discover in Athens, Greece. Many books have been written about about Greek Revival architecture. However, no book has invited readers to trace back through history the genealogy of a single house over 2,500 years. The authors describe, step-by-step, how information is found from many different sources—history books, architecture books, pattern books, articles, interviews with local historians, and site visits in the United States and Europe—that reveals startling new interpretation of documented historical events to change forever the understanding and source of the Greek Revival style.

Greek Revival in America: Tracing its architectural roots to ancient Athens

Tyler, Ilene R

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

What prompted a naive nineteen-year-old from Michigan to work in villages in West Africa where locals had never before seen a white person? How did his two-year tour with the Peace Corps in the 1960s meaningfully change the course of his life over the next fifty years? This compelling story follows the author, Norman Tyler, during his time as a volunteer in a Rural Development program in upcountry Sierra Leone, West Africa. He daily experienced cultural interactions that were to gradually change his life perspective. Readers ride with him in his beat-up Land Rover and vicariously share in the insupposable challenges of getting a health center or school built in an upcountry village; being exposed to tribal rituals of secret societies; working with local African officials who still had a colonialist perspective. This timely narrative also captures historic changes that have taken place in the host country from its "golden period" just after independence through its decades of major troubles—political upheaval, civil war, the "blood diamonds" conflict, the Ebola crisis—over the last fifty years.

The Peace Corps, Sierra Leone, and Me

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Issues of Historic Preservation

Greyden Pr

Over fifteen generations, the extended family of immigrant Job Tyler has included many notable individuals. Included are 35 biographies collected from five eras of American history. Stories include Mary Sawyer Tyler, whose lamb was honored in a very popular poem; Joseph Tyler, victim of a murder onboard by Caribbean pirates; Comfort Tyler, accused of being a traitor in the Aaron Burr Conspiracy; Mary Tyler, who lived for her entire life burdened by accusations at the Salem Witch Trials; Moses Coit Tyler, a distinguished academic who established the first national historical organization; two Tyler Civil War generals and heroes serving for both Union and Confederate armies; and relatives of three different United States presidents, none being President John Tyler.

15 GENERATIONS OF AMERICAN STORIES: Notable Descendants of Immigrant Job Tyler

Community & Culture

Independently published

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