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  • Lost Hanover, New Hampshire by Barrett, Frank J., Jr.
    Frank J. Jr. Barrett

    Lost Hanover, New Hampshire

    From the moment in 1770 when Reverend Eleazar Wheelock located Dartmouth College in Hanover, the College on the Hill and the Village at the College have been inseparably linked as one. And from the time when the first log hut was constructed to the...
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  • Historic Watermills of North America: A Visual Preservation by Boyd, Ken
    Ken Boyd

    Historic Watermills of North America: A Visual Preservation

    112 full-color artistic photographs of watermills still standing on the North American landscape The scenic beauty of the watermill is undeniable. The iconic waterwheel has inspired romantics for generations with their warmth and charm. Watermills were once ubiquitous landmarks along brooks, creeks, and rivers...
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  • Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States by Martinko, Whitney
    Whitney Martinko

    Historic Real Estate: Market Morality and the Politics of Preservation in the Early United States

    A detailed study of early historical preservation efforts between the 1780s and the 1850s In Historic Real Estate, Whitney Martinko shows how Americans in the fledgling United States pointed to evidence of the past in the world around them and debated whether, and how,...
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  • Fragile Grounds: Louisiana's Endangered Cemeteries by Schexnayder, Jessica H.
    Jessica H. Schexnayder

    Fragile Grounds: Louisiana's Endangered Cemeteries

    Recipient of a 2018 Preserve Louisiana Award and a 2018 Coastal Stewardship Award Fragile Grounds compiles stories and photographs of endangered cemeteries throughout Louisiana's coastal zone and beyond. These burial places link the fragile land to the frailty of the state's threatened community structures....
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  • Why Old Places Matter: How Historic Places Affect Our Identity and Well-Being by Mayes, Thompson M.
    Thompson M. Mayes

    Why Old Places Matter: How Historic Places Affect Our Identity and Well-Being

    Why Old Places Matter is the only book that explores the reasons that old places matter to people. Although people often feel very deeply about the old places of their lives, they don't have the words to express why. This book brings these ideas...
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  • Kingston by Enright, James J.
    James J. Enright

    Kingston

    Following New Hampshire's independence from the colony of Massachusetts, Hampton residents petitioned the governor for a grant of a township and subsequently founded the small town of Kingston in 1694. Home to both Josiah Bartlett, the second signer of the Declaration of Independence, and...
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  • Garden City: The First 150 Years by Theodosiou, Constantine E.
    Constantine E. Theodosiou

    Garden City: The First 150 Years

    Positioned at the heart of Nassau County, Garden City sits like a crown jewel among the communities on Long Island. And it has a history to match. The brainchild of textile mogul Alexander Turney Stewart, who bought the last of the treeless Hempstead Plains...
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  • Asbury Park: A Century of Change by Pike, Helen-Chantal
    Helen-Chantal Pike

    Asbury Park: A Century of Change

    As the 20th century got under way, Asbury Park was booming. Real estate advertisements promoted a residential resort "where country meets the sea." The nearly one-square-mile gridded municipality attracted individuals who saw opportunities, from architects and artists to entrepreneurs and people looking for employment....
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  • The Home Upgrade by Gestalten
    Gestalten

    The Home Upgrade

    Against a backdrop of growing cities and a changing approach to how we live, there are many reasons to refurbish a home. Our buildings must continue to evolve along with us--and that takes a little imagination. Societal shifts continue to impact our homes. People...
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  • Courthouses of Georgia by Justice, George
    George Justice

    Courthouses of Georgia

    The courthouses of Georgia's 159 counties hold the keys to the history of individual families and entire communities alike. From their primary role as the temples of justice for our court system to their better-known function as the official repository of public records for...
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  • Garden City: The First 150 Years by Theodosiou, Constantine E.
    Constantine E. Theodosiou

    Garden City: The First 150 Years

    Positioned at the heart of Nassau County, Garden City sits like a crown jewel among the communities on Long Island. And it has a history to match. The brainchild of textile mogul Alexander Turney Stewart, who bought the last of the treeless Hempstead Plains...
    $21.99
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  • The American Construction Industry: Its Historical Evolution and Potential Future by Bowen, Brian
    Brian Bowen

    The American Construction Industry: Its Historical Evolution and Potential Future

    The American Construction Industry meticulously chronicles the evolution of the construction industry from its roots in the medieval guild system to the high-tech jobsite of tomorrow. While celebrating more than two millennia of progress and innovation, this resource for students and professionals uncovers the...
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  • Sustaining a City's Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices by Wolfe, Charles R.
    Charles R. Wolfe

    Sustaining a City's Culture and Character: Principles and Best Practices

    Somewhere, between character and caricature, there exists an authentic--a truly unique--urban place, that blends global and local, old and new. Yet, in a dramatically changing world dominated by crises of climate change, maintaining public health, and social justice, finding such places--and explaining their relevance--may...
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  • Boston's Theater District by Stinchcomb, Dale
    Dale Stinchcomb

    Boston's Theater District

    Downtown Boston once thrived as a dazzling bohemia of burlesque halls, movie palaces, dime museums, and regal stages. By 1915, more than 20 theaters crowded along a quarter-mile stretch of lower Washington Street. The theater district gave birth to vaudeville and incubated some of...
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  • A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture by Fellows, Will
    Will Fellows

    A Passion to Preserve: Gay Men as Keepers of Culture

    From large cities to rural communities, gay men have long been impassioned pioneers as keepers of culture: rescuing and restoring decrepit buildings, revitalizing blighted neighborhoods, saving artifacts and documents of historical significance. A Passion to Preserve explores this authentic and complex dimension of gay...
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  • A Future in Ruins: Unesco, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace by Meskell, Lynn
    Lynn Meskell

    A Future in Ruins: Unesco, World Heritage, and the Dream of Peace

    Best known for its World Heritage program committed to "the identification, protection and preservation of cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity," the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded in 1945 as...
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  • Once upon a time: The Stories of a Loyal House by Westland, R. C.
    R. C. Westland

    Once upon a time: The Stories of a Loyal House

    John Crafford, who emigrated from Scotland in 1753 to find a better future in America, fled the life he had built for himself and his family in Massachusetts to start all over again thirty years later. He was one of some fifty thousand New...
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  • Downtown Providence by II, Louis Azar
    Louis Azar II

    Downtown Providence

    Downtown Providence, Rhode Island, became an important business center in New England beginning in 1866 due to an increase in immigration, urbanization, municipal planning, public and private investments, and new technologies. The business buildings of the past, some of them gone, still coexist with...
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  • Kate Chapman: Adobe Builder in 1930s Santa Fe by Colby, Catherine
    Catherine Colby

    Kate Chapman: Adobe Builder in 1930s Santa Fe

    Kate Muller Chapman arrived in New Mexico at the time Santa Fe Style architecture was just developing. In the 1920s and 1930s Kate designed adobe houses, and directed local workmen during construction. Well versed in the tenets of the evolving Santa Fe Style, Kate...
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  • Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction by Lending, Mari
    Mari Lending

    Plaster Monuments: Architecture and the Power of Reproduction

    We are taught to believe in originals. In art and architecture in particular, original objects vouch for authenticity, value, and truth, and require our protection and preservation. The nineteenth century, however, saw this issue differently. In a culture of reproduction, plaster casts of building...
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  • Essex County Overbrook Hospital by Kowalick, Kevin R.
    Kevin R. Kowalick

    Essex County Overbrook Hospital

    Essex County Overbrook Hosptial details the history of this institution which had its beginnings as an asylym.What was founded as the Essex County Lunacy Asylum evolved from a single building on South Orange Avenue to a city within itself in Cedar Grove. It was...
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  • At Home in the Heart of the Horseshoe: Life in the University of South Carolina President's House by Moore-Pastides, Patricia
    Patricia Moore-Pastides

    At Home in the Heart of the Horseshoe: Life in the University of South Carolina President's House

    A pictorial and narrative tour of a historic landmark at the center of the university's original campusThe University of South Carolina was founded in 1801 on a modest parcel of land now called the Horseshoe. While the campus has grown well beyond its original...
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  • Preserving Paradise:: The Architectural Heritage and History of the Florida Keys by Born, George Walter
    George Walter Born

    Preserving Paradise:: The Architectural Heritage and History of the Florida Keys

    In the nearly 500 years since the Florida Keys were discovered by Christopher Columbus in his search for the Fountain of Youth, Key West has been the home of a dazzling array of inhabitants. The picturesque island has been populated with native Indians, European...
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  • Nashville Architecture: A Guide to the City by West, Carroll Van
    Carroll Van West

    Nashville Architecture: A Guide to the City

    Since the turn of the eighteenth century, social movements and technological advances have strongly impacted cosmopolitan identity in America. Nashville, in particular, has experienced one transformation after another as change continues to propel history forward. Settlement during the 1700s, war and Reconstruction during the...
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  • Preserving Paradise: The Architectural Heritage and History of the Florida Keys by Born, George Walter
    George Walter Born

    Preserving Paradise: The Architectural Heritage and History of the Florida Keys

    In the nearly 500 years since the Florida Keys were discovered by Christopher Columbus in his search for the Fountain of Youth, Key West has been the home of a dazzling array of inhabitants. The picturesque island has been populated with native Indians, European...
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  • Bucky's Dome: The Resurrection of R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Fuller's Dome Home in Carbondale, Illinois by O'Dell, Cary
    Cary O'Dell

    Bucky's Dome: The Resurrection of R. Buckminster Fuller and Anne Hewlett Fuller's Dome Home in Carbondale, Illinois

    Recognized as one of the great design and architectural thinkers of the twentieth century, R. Buckminster Fuller's name is synonymous with the geodesic dome. But throughout his long life and career, Fuller would only ever call one geodesic dome home, and that was the...
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  • Glendora by Price, Ryan Lee
    Ryan Lee Price

    Glendora

    On April 1, 1887, the first lot in Glendora was sold, and in the years since, sage and oak trees gave way to farms and orange trees. Acres of citrus trees soon yielded to rows of houses, and what is left of the orchards...
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  • Boston's Theater District by Stinchcomb, Dale
    Dale Stinchcomb

    Boston's Theater District

    Downtown Boston once thrived as a dazzling bohemia of burlesque halls, movie palaces, dime museums, and regal stages. By 1915, more than 20 theaters crowded along a quarter-mile stretch of lower Washington Street. The theater district gave birth to vaudeville and incubated some of...
    $24.99
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  • The County's Handsomest House: The Story of Somerville's American-Gothic Classic by Sullivan, Margaret Wolan
    Margaret Wolan Sullivan

    The County's Handsomest House: The Story of Somerville's American-Gothic Classic

    Somerville New Jersey has a municipal and library building that looks like something out of a Gothic romance. At the end of what appears to be a typical suburban Main Street sits a castle. The story of how Somerville acquired its "castle", the man...
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  • Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn by Passell, Aaron
    Aaron Passell

    Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn

    Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. In this view, designating a neighborhood as historic is a project by and for affluent residents concerned with aesthetics, not affordability. It leads to gentrification and rising property values for wealthy homeowners, while displacement afflicts...
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  • Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn by Passell, Aaron
    Aaron Passell

    Preserving Neighborhoods: How Urban Policy and Community Strategy Shape Baltimore and Brooklyn

    Historic preservation is typically regarded as an elitist practice. In this view, designating a neighborhood as historic is a project by and for affluent residents concerned with aesthetics, not affordability. It leads to gentrification and rising property values for wealthy homeowners, while displacement afflicts...
    $120.00
    $120.00
    $120.00
  • Asbury Park: A Century of Change by Pike, Helen-Chantal
    Helen-Chantal Pike

    Asbury Park: A Century of Change

    As the 20th century got under way, Asbury Park was booming. Real estate advertisements promoted a residential resort where country meets the sea. The nearly one-square-mile gridded municipality attracted individuals who saw opportunities, from architects and artists to entrepreneurs and people looking for employment....
    $40.99
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  • The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg by Carson, Cary
    Cary Carson

    The Chesapeake House: Architectural Investigation by Colonial Williamsburg

    For more than thirty years, the architectural research department at Colonial Williamsburg has engaged in comprehensive study of early buildings, landscapes, and social history in the Chesapeake region. Its painstaking work has transformed our understanding of building practices in the colonial and early national...
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  • A Graveyard Preservation Primer, Second Edition by Strangstad, Lynette
    Lynette Strangstad

    A Graveyard Preservation Primer

    A Graveyard Preservation Primer has proven itself to be a time-tested resource for those who are seeking information regarding the protection and preservation of historic graveyards. It was first written to help stewards of early burial grounds responsibly and effectively preserve their graveyards. Much...
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  • Time Honored: A Global View of Architectural Conservation by Stubbs, John H.
    John H. Stubbs

    Time Honored: A Global View of Architectural Conservation

    "The absence heretofore of a comparably thoroughgoing but accessible resource on a topic of such urgent public concern was a glaring lapse that makes this deeply researched, lucidly written, and helpfully annotated book an invaluable addition to the literature."-- New York Review of Books...
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  • Ageless Adobe: History and Preservation in Southwestern Architecture by Iowa, Jerome
    Jerome Iowa

    Ageless Adobe: History and Preservation in Southwestern Architecture

    The American Southwest possesses an extraordinary depth of cultural heritage and much of its history is preserved in its architecture. Particularly prominent in the region's man-made landscape are the historic structures made from the earth itself--adobe. Attention has turned to ways of preserving and...
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  • Brownsville Architecture: A Visual History: Pino Shah and Eileen Mattei by Shah, Pino
    Pino Shah

    Brownsville Architecture: A Visual History: Pino Shah and Eileen Mattei

    Brownsville Architecture: A Visual History reveals the heritage and history of Texas's southernmost city as told by its buildings. Outstanding architectural images by Pino Shah show the influence of diverse cultures and regional styles that have shaped the border city's built environment since 1841....
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  • Famous Times: Historic Woolsheds of Hawkes Bay by Gordon, Angus
    Angus Gordon

    Famous Times: Historic Woolsheds of Hawkes Bay

    The Gordon family have a historic woolshed, which was built in 1886. It has been turned into a museum to the sheep industry and has an auditorium, where shearing and dog shows are held for tourists. The idea came to Angus Gordon, one of...
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  • The Great Tower of Dover Castle: History, Architecture and Context by Pattison, Paul
    Paul Pattison

    The Great Tower of Dover Castle: History, Architecture and Context

    Dover Castle is one of England's greatest fortresses. At its heart lies the Great Tower, a huge Anglo-Norman keep that has dominated the White Cliffs since the 1180s, remaining in continuous use thereafter. This book explores the history and development of the Great Tower...
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  • Craigdarroch Castle in 21 Treasures by Dann, Moira
    Moira Dann

    Craigdarroch Castle in 21 Treasures

    Finalist for the Lieutenant Governor's Medal for Historical WritingTold in 21 objects--including furnishings, artwork, and tools--this approachable museum guide takes readers into the family history, local lore, and oddities of one of Victoria's most famous landmarks.Craigdarroch Castle, built by coal baron Robert Dunsmuir for...
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  • The United Nations and New York City: A Home for the World by Barreneche, Raul
    Raul Barreneche

    The United Nations and New York City: A Home for the World

    Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the signing of the United Nations charter, this visually driven book tells the story of the special relationship between the UN and New York City through the interrelated lenses of architecture, real estate, and urban planning. The book...
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  • Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy by Yaneva, Albena
    Albena Yaneva

    Crafting History: Archiving and the Quest for Architectural Legacy

    What constitutes an archive in architecture? What forms does it take? What epistemology does it perform? What kind of craft is archiving? Crafting History provides answers and offers insights on the ontological granularity of the archive and its relationship with architecture as a complex...
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  • Building with Lime by Holmes, Stafford
    Stafford Holmes

    Building with Lime: A practical introduction

    This book is intended as a starting point for those considering lime as a building material, and as a general reference to the broad range of uses for lime in construction. It shows how to make the best use of different types of lime,...
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  • Lincoln by Zimmer, Edward
    Edward Zimmer

    Lincoln

    The village of Lancaster became the state of Nebraska's first capital city in 1867, renamed Lincoln. Not everyone predicted its success. One early observer noted: There are no roads leading to it now. It has no commerce and there is scarcely a wagon load...
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  • Glendora by Price, Ryan Lee
    Ryan Lee Price

    Glendora

    On April 1, 1887, the first lot in Glendora was sold, and in the years since, sage and oak trees gave way to farms and orange trees. Acres of citrus trees soon yielded to rows of houses, and what is left of the orchards...
    $39.99
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  • French Chateau Style: Inside France's Most Exquisite Private Homes by Scotto, Catherine
    Catherine Scotto

    French Chateau Style: Inside France's Most Exquisite Private Homes

    The doors of centuries-old French chateaux are thrown wide open in this sumptuous photographic cross-country tour. Readers will gain entry to a stunning array of stylish private homes within beautiful historic buildings,­ each one representing very different approaches to d馗or and preservation. When she...
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  • Palm Beach: An Architectural Heritage: Stories in Preservation and Architecture by Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach
    Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach

    Palm Beach: An Architectural Heritage: Stories in Preservation and Architecture

    Palm Beach houses and gardens resplendent with old grandeur yet wonderfully alive for today are the subject of this elegant volume. With its lush gardens, palm tree-lined promenades, and romantic homes, Palm Beach has long been considered a playground for the rich and famous....
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  • Connecticut Architecture: Stories of 100 Places by Wigren, Christopher
    Christopher Wigren

    Connecticut Architecture: Stories of 100 Places

    The first comprehensive illustrated history of Connecticut architectureConnecticut boasts some of the oldest and most distinctive architecture in New England, from Colonial churches and Modernist houses to refurbished nineteenth-century factories. The state's history includes landscapes of small farmsteads, country churches, urban streets, tobacco sheds,...
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  • Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China's Architectural Past by Fairbank, Wilma
    Wilma Fairbank

    Liang and Lin: Partners in Exploring China's Architectural Past

    Wilma Fairbank documents, from both a historical and a uniquely personal perspective, the professional and personal achievements of Lin Whei-yin and Liang Sicheng. Liang and Lin were born in early twentieth-century China, a time when the influences of modernism were slowly bearing down on...
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  • Preserving the Key: Manasota Key, Florida by Association, Manasota Key
    Manasota Key Association

    Preserving the Key: Manasota Key, Florida

    As the ice age ended large amounts of melting glacial ice led to rising sea levels. As part of this long term process the Florida shoreline moved 20 to 100 miles landward, and Manasota Key and many other barrier islands were formed. For most...
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