Author: Susan Taylor Block
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439630666
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Discover Wilmington's enduring spirit in these images of past and present. Since 1739, Wilmington has seen centuries of change along the banks of the Cape Fear River to the beaches of the Atlantic. Through the years much has been lost to war, neglect, and progress, but in many places the past is well preserved and still visible today.
Wilmington
Author: Susan Taylor Block
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439630666
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Discover Wilmington's enduring spirit in these images of past and present. Since 1739, Wilmington has seen centuries of change along the banks of the Cape Fear River to the beaches of the Atlantic. Through the years much has been lost to war, neglect, and progress, but in many places the past is well preserved and still visible today.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1439630666
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 98
Book Description
Discover Wilmington's enduring spirit in these images of past and present. Since 1739, Wilmington has seen centuries of change along the banks of the Cape Fear River to the beaches of the Atlantic. Through the years much has been lost to war, neglect, and progress, but in many places the past is well preserved and still visible today.
Cape Fear Lost
Author: Susan Taylor Block
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738501925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Progress is a contradictory term, one that inherently means an improvement of luxury and an advancement of technology, yet usually at the expense of a community's identity, traditions, and history. Though many buildings survived Civil War skirmishes and Northern occupation during Reconstruction, these same structures did not escape the plans of ambitious entrepreneurs and thus disappeared from Wilmingtone(tm)s landscape, only to be replaced, over time, by shopping plazas and nationally recognizable commercial facades. Cape Fear Lost celebrates places that have vanished from presentday Wilmington. In this volume of more than 200 photographs, you will be able to explore the Wilmington of a bygone era, one punctuated by unpaved tree-lined streets and architecturally diverse dwellings. As you thumb through these pages, you will experience firsthand the beauty of many former mansions scattered throughout the downtown area, familiar churches, civic buildings and schools that once dotted the cityscape, the many businesses that utilized the pedestrian, horse-and-wagon, and shipping traffic along Market Street, and the transformation of Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach from humble summer bungalows into major tourist retreats. These varied scenes allow you an extraordinary insight into this coastal communitye(tm)s changing character over the past century and a half.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738501925
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Progress is a contradictory term, one that inherently means an improvement of luxury and an advancement of technology, yet usually at the expense of a community's identity, traditions, and history. Though many buildings survived Civil War skirmishes and Northern occupation during Reconstruction, these same structures did not escape the plans of ambitious entrepreneurs and thus disappeared from Wilmingtone(tm)s landscape, only to be replaced, over time, by shopping plazas and nationally recognizable commercial facades. Cape Fear Lost celebrates places that have vanished from presentday Wilmington. In this volume of more than 200 photographs, you will be able to explore the Wilmington of a bygone era, one punctuated by unpaved tree-lined streets and architecturally diverse dwellings. As you thumb through these pages, you will experience firsthand the beauty of many former mansions scattered throughout the downtown area, familiar churches, civic buildings and schools that once dotted the cityscape, the many businesses that utilized the pedestrian, horse-and-wagon, and shipping traffic along Market Street, and the transformation of Wrightsville Beach and Carolina Beach from humble summer bungalows into major tourist retreats. These varied scenes allow you an extraordinary insight into this coastal communitye(tm)s changing character over the past century and a half.
Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 568
Book Description
Robert R. Taylor and Tuskegee
Author: Ellen Weiss
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1588382486
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"Ellen Weiss breaks important new ground in her remarkable monograph on Robert R. Taylor. This volume is by far the most detailed account we have of an African American architect. Weiss vividly conveys the immense challenges faced by black architects and professionals of every kind, especially during the rise of Jim Crow. Along the way we get myriad insights on architectural education, architect-client relationships, and the development of a major institution of higher learning."--- Richard Longstreth, George Washington University "Architectural historian Ellen Weiss's book provides a wealth of little-known factual information about Taylor and a scholarly historical analysis of his many contributions in architectural education and professional practice. A must-read for anyone with an interest in architecture and a certain reference for every architecture student."--- Richard Dozier, Dean, Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture & Construction Science, Tuskegee University "Robert R. Taylor's place in history as the first academically-trained African American architect has been well known, but an authoritative assessment of his contribution to American architectural and planning practice has remained elusive until now. Weiss deftly interweaves the story of the Tuskegee campus with an examination of Taylor's pedagogy and the plight of black architects in the early twentieth century."--- Gary Van Zante, Curator of Architecture and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Publisher: NewSouth Books
ISBN: 1588382486
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
"Ellen Weiss breaks important new ground in her remarkable monograph on Robert R. Taylor. This volume is by far the most detailed account we have of an African American architect. Weiss vividly conveys the immense challenges faced by black architects and professionals of every kind, especially during the rise of Jim Crow. Along the way we get myriad insights on architectural education, architect-client relationships, and the development of a major institution of higher learning."--- Richard Longstreth, George Washington University "Architectural historian Ellen Weiss's book provides a wealth of little-known factual information about Taylor and a scholarly historical analysis of his many contributions in architectural education and professional practice. A must-read for anyone with an interest in architecture and a certain reference for every architecture student."--- Richard Dozier, Dean, Robert R. Taylor School of Architecture & Construction Science, Tuskegee University "Robert R. Taylor's place in history as the first academically-trained African American architect has been well known, but an authoritative assessment of his contribution to American architectural and planning practice has remained elusive until now. Weiss deftly interweaves the story of the Tuskegee campus with an examination of Taylor's pedagogy and the plight of black architects in the early twentieth century."--- Gary Van Zante, Curator of Architecture and Design, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1140
Book Description
The Shandean
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Wrights of Wilmington
Author: Susan Taylor Block
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilmington (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Thomas Wright who was born ca. 1714 and lived in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was a descendant of Sir John Wright who was born ca. 1500 and was the Lord of Kelvedon Manor in Essex, England. Thomas married Ann Grainger sometime prior to the year 1761. They were the parents of at least one known child. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and elsewhere.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wilmington (N.C.)
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Thomas Wright who was born ca. 1714 and lived in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was a descendant of Sir John Wright who was born ca. 1500 and was the Lord of Kelvedon Manor in Essex, England. Thomas married Ann Grainger sometime prior to the year 1761. They were the parents of at least one known child. Descendants lived in North Carolina, Alabama, Tennessee, Virginia and elsewhere.
The North Carolina Historical Review
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : North Carolina
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
Catalogue of Title-entries of Books and Other Articles Entered in the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, Under the Copyright Law ... Wherein the Copyright Has Been Completed by the Deposit of Two Copies in the Office
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American drama
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Wilmington
Author: Beverly Tetterton
Publisher: DRAM Tree Books
ISBN: 9780972324038
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
With hundreds of rare pictures, this award-winning volume captures the many architectural gems that North Carolina's Port City has lost from the colonial period to the present day. Some were lost to natural disasters like fires and hurricanes. Others fell victim to the "progress" of Urban Renewal or the sometimes short-sightedness of private developers. Regardless of how or why these buildings were torn down and lost, they represent pages ripped from the community's collective history. Preservationist Beverly Tetterton has assembled a collection of lost places that serve as cautionary tales for modern planners and citizens.
Publisher: DRAM Tree Books
ISBN: 9780972324038
Category : Historic buildings
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
With hundreds of rare pictures, this award-winning volume captures the many architectural gems that North Carolina's Port City has lost from the colonial period to the present day. Some were lost to natural disasters like fires and hurricanes. Others fell victim to the "progress" of Urban Renewal or the sometimes short-sightedness of private developers. Regardless of how or why these buildings were torn down and lost, they represent pages ripped from the community's collective history. Preservationist Beverly Tetterton has assembled a collection of lost places that serve as cautionary tales for modern planners and citizens.