Atlanta S Druid Hills

Author : Robert Hartle Jr.
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625844699

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Atlanta's Druid Hills by Robert Hartle Jr. Pdf

The Druid Hills neighborhood is characterized by rolling hills, magnificent trees and shrubs and gorgeous, expansive houses. Its Ponce de Leon corridor bears the imprint of the founder of American landscape architecture, Frederick Law Olmsted. The brainchild of Joel Hurt, the neighborhood was brought to fruition by some of Atlanta's most prominent businessmen, including Asa Candler, founder of Coca-Cola. It was these movers and shakers of the city who lived in the neighborhood during the early decades of the twentieth century. In 1914, Druid Hills was permanently altered with the announcement that it would be the site of Emory University's new main campus. Now the residents coexist with what has become an international university community. Historian Robert Hartle Jr. has written an honest, impeccably researched tribute to Druid Hills, truly one of the jewels in Atlanta's crown.

Author : Robert Jr. Hartle
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1540218244

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Atlanta's Druid Hills: A Brief History by Robert Jr. Hartle Pdf

Author : Staci L. Catron,Mary Ann Eaddy
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-15
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780820353005

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Seeking Eden by Staci L. Catron,Mary Ann Eaddy Pdf

Seeking Eden promotes an awareness of, and appreciation for, Georgia’s rich garden heritage. Updated and expanded here are the stories of nearly thirty designed landscapes first identified in the early twentieth-century publication Garden History of Georgia, 1733–1933. Seeking Eden records each garden’s evolution and history as well as each garden’s current early twenty-first-century appearance, as beautifully documented in photographs. Dating from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentieth centuries, these publicly and privately owned gardens include nineteenth-century parterres, Colonial Revival gardens, Country Place–era landscapes, rock gardens, historic town squares, college campuses, and an urban conservation garden. Seeking Eden explores the significant impact of the women who envisioned and nurtured many of these special places; the role of professional designers, including J. Neel Reid, Philip Trammel Shutze, William C. Pauley, Robert B. Cridland, the Olmsted Brothers, Hubert Bond Owens, and Clermont Lee; and the influence of the garden club movement in Georgia in the early twentieth century. FEATURED GARDENS: Andrew Low House and Garden | Savannah Ashland Farm | Flintstone Barnsley Gardens | Adairsville Barrington Hall and Bulloch Hall | Roswell Battersby-Hartridge Garden | Savannah Beech Haven | Athens Berry College: Oak Hill and House o’ Dreams | Mount Berry Bradley Olmsted Garden | Columbus Cator Woolford Gardens | Atlanta Coffin-Reynolds Mansion | Sapelo Island Dunaway Gardens | Newnan vicinity Governor’s Mansion | Atlanta Hills and Dales Estate | LaGrange Lullwater Conservation Garden | Atlanta Millpond Plantation | Thomasville vicinity Oakton | Marietta Rock City Gardens | Lookout Mountain Salubrity Hall | Augusta Savannah Squares | Savannah Stephenson-Adams-Land Garden | Atlanta Swan House | Atlanta University of Georgia: North Campus, the President’s House and Garden, and the Founders Memorial Garden | Athens Valley View | Cartersville vicinity Wormsloe and Wormsloe State Historic Site | Savannah vicinity Zahner-Slick Garden | Atlanta

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NWU:35556030121735

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Presidential Parkway Construction, I-75 to Ponce de Leon, Atlanta by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sharon Foster Jones
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-27
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781614234685

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Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Avenue by Sharon Foster Jones Pdf

Named for the famous Spanish explorer who was said to have discovered the Fountain of Youth, Atlanta’s Ponce de Leon Avenue began as a simple country road that conveyed visitors to the healing springs that once bubbled along it. Now, few motorists realize that the avenue, one of Atlanta’s major commuter thoroughfares, was a prestigious residential street in Victorian Atlanta, home to mayors and millionaires. An economic turn in the twentieth century transformed the avenue into a crime-ridden commercial corridor, but in recent years, Atlantans have rediscovered the street’s venerable architecture and storied history. Join local historian Sharon Foster Jones on a vivid tour of the avenue—from picnics by the springs in hoopskirts and Atlanta Crackers baseball to the Fox Theatre and the days when Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable and Al Capone lodged in the esteemed hotels lining this magnificent avenue.

Author : Robert Michael Craig
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780820328980

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The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith, Atlanta's Scholar-architect by Robert Michael Craig Pdf

Francis Palmer Smith was the principal designer of Atlanta-based Pringle and Smith, one of the leading firms of the early twentieth-century South. Smith was an academic eclectic who created traditional, history-based architecture grounded in the teachings of the cole des Beaux-Arts. As The Architecture of Francis Palmer Smith shows, Smith was central to the establishment of the Beaux-Arts perspective in the South through his academic and professional career. After studying with Paul Philippe Cret at the University of Pennsylvania, Smith moved to Atlanta in 1909 to head the new architecture program at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He would go on to train some of the South's most significant architects, including Philip Trammell Shutze, Flippen Burge, Preston Stevens, Ed Ivey, and Lewis E. Crook Jr. In 1922 Smith formed a partnership with Robert S. Pringle. In Atlanta, Savannah, Chattanooga, Jacksonville, Sarasota, Miami, and elsewhere, Smith built office buildings, hotels, and Art Deco skyscrapers; buildings at Georgia Tech, the Baylor School in Chattanooga, and the Darlington School in Rome, Georgia; Gothic Revival churches; standardized bottling plants for Coca-Cola; and houses in a range of traditional "period" styles in the suburbs. Smith's love of medieval architecture culminated with his 1962 masterwork, the Cathedral of St. Philip in Atlanta. As his career drew to a close, Modernism was establishing itself in America. Smith's own modern aesthetic was evidenced in the more populist modern of Art Deco, but he never embraced the abstract machine aesthetic of high Modern. Robert M. Craig details the role of history in design for Smith and his generation, who believed that architecture is an art and that ornament, cultural reference, symbolism, and tradition communicate to clients and observers and enrich the lives of both. This book was supported, in part, by generous grants from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and the Georgia Tech Foundation, Inc.

Author : Franklin M. Garrett
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820339054

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Atlanta and Environs by Franklin M. Garrett Pdf

Atlanta and Environs is, in every way, an exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time of its settlement in the 1820s through the 1970s. Volumes I and II, together more than two thousand pages in length, represent a quarter century of research by their author, Franklin M. Garrett—a man called “a walking encyclopedia on Atlanta history” by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. With the publication of Volume III, by Harold H. Martin, this chronicle of the South’s most vibrant city incorporates the spectacular growth and enterprise that have characterized Atlanta in recent decades. The work is arranged chronologically, with a section devoted to each decade, a chapter to each year. Volume I covers the history of Atlanta and its people up to 1880—ranging from the city’s founding as “Terminus” through its Civil War destruction and subsequent phoenixlike rebirth. Volume II details Atlanta’s development from 1880 through the 1930s—including occurrences of such diversity as the development of the Coca-Cola Company and the Atlanta premiere of Gone with the Wind. Taking up the city’s fortunes in the 1940s, Volume III spans the years of Atlanta’s greatest growth. Tracing the rise of new building on the downtown skyline and the construction of Hartsfield International Airport on the city’s perimeter, covering the politics at City Hall and the box scores of Atlanta’s new baseball team, recounting the changing terms of race relations and the city’s growing support of the arts, the last volume of Atlanta and Environs documents the maturation of the South’s preeminent city.

Author : United States. Office of Education,Leah W. Ramsey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Education
ISBN : OSU:32435008728032

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Directory of Public Secondary Day Schools, 1958-59 by United States. Office of Education,Leah W. Ramsey Pdf

Author : Felton, Carly
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1455608467

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A Marmac Guide to Atlanta by Felton, Carly Pdf

Author : Janice McDonald
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-04
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762762941

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Insiders' Guide® to Atlanta by Janice McDonald Pdf

Insiders' Guide to Atlanta is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to the Georgia's largest city. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of Atlanta and its surrounding environs.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1510 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119578552

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Department of Transportation and related agencies appropriations for 1989 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Pdf

Author : Vivian Price
Publisher : HPN Books
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781893619890

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Historic Dekalb County by Vivian Price Pdf

An illustrated history of DeKalb County, Georgia, paired with histories of the local companies.

Author : Harold H. Martin
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780820339061

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Atlanta and Environs by Harold H. Martin Pdf

Atlanta and Environs is, in every way, an exhaustive history of the Atlanta Area from the time of its settlement in the 1820s through the 1970s. Volumes I and II, together more than two thousand pages in length, represent a quarter century of research by their author, Franklin M. Garrett—a man called “a walking encyclopedia on Atlanta history” by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. With the publication of Volume III, by Harold H. Martin, this chronicle of the South's most vibrant city incorporates the spectacular growth and enterprise that have characterized Atlanta in recent decades. The work is arranged chronologically, with a section devoted to each decade, a chapter to each year. Volume I covers the history of Atlanta and its people up to 1880—ranging from the city's founding as “Terminus” through its Civil War destruction and subsequent phoenixlike rebirth. Volume II details Atlanta's development from 1880 through the 1930s—including occurrences of such diversity as the development of the Coca-Cola Company and the Atlanta premiere of Gone with the Wind. Taking up the city's fortunes in the 1940s, Volume III spans the years of Atlanta's greatest growth. Tracing the rise of new building on the downtown skyline and the construction of Hartsfield International Airport on the city's perimeter, covering the politics at City Hall and the box scores of Atlanta's new baseball team, recounting the changing terms of race relations and the city's growing support of the arts, the last volume of Atlanta and Environs documents the maturation of the South's preeminent city.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : United States
ISBN : LOC:00186273473

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Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1990 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Pdf

Author : Kathryn W. Kemp
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0865547823

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God's Capitalist by Kathryn W. Kemp Pdf

"By following Asa Candler's life, readers have a unique opportunity to visit Atlanta during one of the most critical times in its development, and to see it through the eyes of one of Atlanta's "movers and shakers.""--BOOK JACKET.