Author: Olive Hoogenboom
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Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 459

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Author: Olive Hoogenboom
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Category : Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 488

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Author: First Unitarian Society of San Francisco
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 140

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Author: Melissa Meriam Bullard
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319501763
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469

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This book shows how modern Brooklyn’s proud urban identity as an arts-friendly community originated in the mid nineteenth century. Before and after the Civil War, Brooklyn’s elite, many engaged in Atlantic trade, established more than a dozen cultural societies, including the Philharmonic Society, Academy of Music, and Art Association. The associative ethos behind Brooklyn’s fine arts flowering built upon commercial networks that joined commerce, culture, and community. This innovative, carefully researched and documented history employs the concept of parallel Renaissances. It shows influences from Renaissance Italy and Liverpool, then connected to New York through regular packet service like the Black Ball Line that ferried people, ideas, and cargo across the Atlantic. Civil War disrupted Brooklyn’s Renaissance. The city directed energies towards war relief efforts and the women’s Sanitary Fair. The Gilded Age saw Brooklyn’s Renaissance energies diluted by financial and political corruption, planning the Brooklyn Bridge and consolidation with New York City in 1898.

Author: Robert Furman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625855044
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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Settled in the 1600s, Brooklyn Heights is one of New York's most historic neighborhoods. Its strategic location overlooking the harbor proved instrumental during the Revolutionary War's Battle of Brooklyn. In the 1830s, steam ferries transformed it into America's first suburb, where abolitionism flourished and one of the largest Civil War Sanitary Fairs was held. Throughout the nineteenth century, wealthy philanthropists and entrepreneurs built high-styled Gothic Revival and Italianate homes and founded many landmark Brooklyn institutions. Though the neighborhood declined with the new century, it became a target of Robert Moses's urban renewal projects in the 1930s. Its designation as the city's first historic district saved Brooklyn Heights, and it has since blossomed into one of the city's most desirable neighborhoods.

Author: Ethelyn Miller Hartwich
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Languages : en
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Author: Herbert Vetter
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615147844
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Concise biographies of over 100 American Unitarians 1936-1961

Author: San Francisco (Calif.). First Unitarian Church
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Languages : en
Pages : 48

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Author: James Bernard Newman
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557468469
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 338

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