Author: John R. Dorsey
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
From eighteenth-century mansions to urban high-rise buildings, the book chronicles two hundred years of architectural history through an exploration of the city's most beautiful and significant structures. Grouped by neighborhood in walking and driving tours, each building is pictured and described with a commentary on its history and style.
A Guide to Baltimore Architecture
Author: John R. Dorsey
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
From eighteenth-century mansions to urban high-rise buildings, the book chronicles two hundred years of architectural history through an exploration of the city's most beautiful and significant structures. Grouped by neighborhood in walking and driving tours, each building is pictured and described with a commentary on its history and style.
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
From eighteenth-century mansions to urban high-rise buildings, the book chronicles two hundred years of architectural history through an exploration of the city's most beautiful and significant structures. Grouped by neighborhood in walking and driving tours, each building is pictured and described with a commentary on its history and style.
History Lover's Guide to Baltimore, A
Author: Brennen Jensen
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467145769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Neither southern nor northern, Baltimore has charted its own course through the American experience. The spires of the nation's first cathedral rose into its sky, and the first blood of the Civil War fell on its streets. Here, enslaved Frederick Douglass toiled before fleeing to freedom and Billie Holiday learned to sing. Baltimore's clippers plied the seven seas, while its pioneering railroads opened the prairie West. The city that birthed "The Star-Spangled Banner" also gave us Babe Ruth and the bottle cap. This guide navigates nearly three hundred years of colorful history--from Johns Hopkins's earnest philanthropy to the raucous camp of John Waters and from modest row houses to the marbled mansions of the Gilded Age. Let local authors Brennen Jensen and Tom Chalkley introduce you to Mencken's "ancient and solid" city--]cBack cover.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467145769
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
"Neither southern nor northern, Baltimore has charted its own course through the American experience. The spires of the nation's first cathedral rose into its sky, and the first blood of the Civil War fell on its streets. Here, enslaved Frederick Douglass toiled before fleeing to freedom and Billie Holiday learned to sing. Baltimore's clippers plied the seven seas, while its pioneering railroads opened the prairie West. The city that birthed "The Star-Spangled Banner" also gave us Babe Ruth and the bottle cap. This guide navigates nearly three hundred years of colorful history--from Johns Hopkins's earnest philanthropy to the raucous camp of John Waters and from modest row houses to the marbled mansions of the Gilded Age. Let local authors Brennen Jensen and Tom Chalkley introduce you to Mencken's "ancient and solid" city--]cBack cover.
A Guide to Baltimore Architecture, by John R. Dorsey and James D. Dilts. Foreword by John Dos Passos. Introductions by Wilbur Harvey Hunter and Alexander S. Cochran
Author: John R. Dorsey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Century of Baltimore Architecture
Author: Wilbur Harvey Hunter
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Architecture of Baltimore
Author: Mary Ellen Hayward
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801878060
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Romantic stylings follow excursions into the Greek and Gothic Revivals, the rise of the popular Italianate-mode for town and country houses : fine examples of soaring church spires; public spaces like the Peabody Library, and masterpieces of ornamented dignity."
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 9780801878060
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Romantic stylings follow excursions into the Greek and Gothic Revivals, the rise of the popular Italianate-mode for town and country houses : fine examples of soaring church spires; public spaces like the Peabody Library, and masterpieces of ornamented dignity."
Baltimore's Cast-iron Buildings and Architectural Ironwork
Author: James D. Dilts
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Baltimore was an innovator in the development of cast-iron architecture, but the city's heritage of buildings in this genre, once numbering more than a hundred, has dwindled to only a handful today. The Baltimore region also had a long tradition in iron production, beginning with the colonial era and continuing through the 1950s as Sparrows Point became the single largest steel complex in the world. Baltimore's Cast-Iron Buildings is a celebration of a unique aspect of Baltimore's architectural and industrial history. The authors examine cast-iron buildings in an integrated way to show how the material was fabricated and the buildings erected. They also explore the cast and wrought ironwork used for gates, fences, railings, and ornaments. The heavily illustrated work includes ironwork catalogs from the mid-1800s.
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Baltimore was an innovator in the development of cast-iron architecture, but the city's heritage of buildings in this genre, once numbering more than a hundred, has dwindled to only a handful today. The Baltimore region also had a long tradition in iron production, beginning with the colonial era and continuing through the 1950s as Sparrows Point became the single largest steel complex in the world. Baltimore's Cast-Iron Buildings is a celebration of a unique aspect of Baltimore's architectural and industrial history. The authors examine cast-iron buildings in an integrated way to show how the material was fabricated and the buildings erected. They also explore the cast and wrought ironwork used for gates, fences, railings, and ornaments. The heavily illustrated work includes ironwork catalogs from the mid-1800s.
The Baltimore Rowhouse
Author: Charles Belfoure
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1568989563
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Perhaps no other American city is so defined by an indigenous architectural style as Baltimore is by the rowhouse, whose brick facades march up and down the gentle hills of the city. Why did the rowhouse thrive in Baltimore? How did it escape destruction here, unlike in many other historic American cities? What were the forces that led to the citywide renovation of Baltimore's rowhouses? The Baltimore Rowhouse tells the fascinating 200-year story of this building type. It chronicles the evolution of the rowhouse from its origins as speculative housing for immigrants, through its reclamation and renovation by young urban pioneers thanks to local government sponsorship, to its current occupation by a new cadre of wealthy professionals.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 1568989563
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Perhaps no other American city is so defined by an indigenous architectural style as Baltimore is by the rowhouse, whose brick facades march up and down the gentle hills of the city. Why did the rowhouse thrive in Baltimore? How did it escape destruction here, unlike in many other historic American cities? What were the forces that led to the citywide renovation of Baltimore's rowhouses? The Baltimore Rowhouse tells the fascinating 200-year story of this building type. It chronicles the evolution of the rowhouse from its origins as speculative housing for immigrants, through its reclamation and renovation by young urban pioneers thanks to local government sponsorship, to its current occupation by a new cadre of wealthy professionals.
Milwaukee Architecture
Author: Joseph J. Korom
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781879483279
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
From some of the oldest in the city to sleek new high-rises, this book provides descriptions and photos of 150 of Milwaukee's most notable buildings. Included is information on the various styles and architects, an architectural history of Milwaukee, and a list of the city's tallest buildings. An excellent reference guide for those visiting the city.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781879483279
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
From some of the oldest in the city to sleek new high-rises, this book provides descriptions and photos of 150 of Milwaukee's most notable buildings. Included is information on the various styles and architects, an architectural history of Milwaukee, and a list of the city's tallest buildings. An excellent reference guide for those visiting the city.
Seattle Architecture
Author: Maureen R. Elenga
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615141299
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winner of Historic Seattle's Preservation Education and Publications Award Seattle Architecture: A Walking Guide to Downtown opens with an historical overview and timeline featuring the people and events that have shaped the Seattle that we know today. The guidebook is divided into nine tours beginning where Seattle did, at Pioneer Square, and ending at Seattle Center, the location of the futuristic-themed 1962 Century 21 World's Fair. The front flap folds out, providing a map of the areas covered in the book. Each tour is accompanied by an introduction and area map with points of interest identified by numbers that correspond to individual entries. Architect names and dates of completion are provided at the beginning of each entry, and an icon indicates when a building is on a local or national landmarks register.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615141299
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Winner of Historic Seattle's Preservation Education and Publications Award Seattle Architecture: A Walking Guide to Downtown opens with an historical overview and timeline featuring the people and events that have shaped the Seattle that we know today. The guidebook is divided into nine tours beginning where Seattle did, at Pioneer Square, and ending at Seattle Center, the location of the futuristic-themed 1962 Century 21 World's Fair. The front flap folds out, providing a map of the areas covered in the book. Each tour is accompanied by an introduction and area map with points of interest identified by numbers that correspond to individual entries. Architect names and dates of completion are provided at the beginning of each entry, and an icon indicates when a building is on a local or national landmarks register.
The Great Road
Author: James D. Dilts
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804726290
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad contributes not only to the railway history but to the history of the development of the United States in the 19th century. 80 illustrations.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804726290
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
This masterful, richly illustrated account of the planning and building of the most important and influential early American railroad contributes not only to the railway history but to the history of the development of the United States in the 19th century. 80 illustrations.