Lexington S Lost Architecture

Author : Woods Reeves,Kelly McDaniel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1535101350

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Lexington's Lost Architecture by Woods Reeves,Kelly McDaniel Pdf

"Lexington's Lost Architecture" is a new book featuring many never before published photos of some of Lexington, Kentucky's finest old architecture. All the homes are long gone either by having been torn down or burned. These pages contain the stories of the people that built these magnificent structures and those that inhabited them. There are many interior photos from private collections which will give the reader an idea of the splendor of these lost treasures.

Author : Woods Reeves,Kelly McDaniel
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-22
Category : Fayette County (Ky.)
ISBN : 153967231X

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Lexington's Lost Architecture by Woods Reeves,Kelly McDaniel Pdf

Thank you for viewing our book! If you decide to purchase, the authors humbly ask that you please go to www.createspace.com/6663271 (simply type this address into the address bar at the top of your screen and it will take you straight to the book to place your order). It is as safe and secure as purchasing on Amazon (probably more so) because it is Amazon, just their publishing side. We ask this favor because when our book is ordered through Amazon.com and not CreateSpace.com, Amazon takes out another large fee (not sure why since it is the same company) and by doing so, Amazon ends up making a lot more on the sale than we do. At least through CreateSpace we split the royalties a bit more evenly with Amazon. They still make more than the authors but this way is much fairer. We very much appreciate your extra effort to help and also thank you very, much for your interest in our book. We hope you enjoy it! "Lexington's Lost Architecture" is a new book featuring many never before published photos of some of Lexington, Kentucky's finest old architecture. All the homes are long gone either by having been torn down or burned. These pages contain the stories of the people that built these magnificent structures and those that inhabited them. There are many interior photos from private collections and many full color images which will give the reader an idea of the splendor of these lost treasures.

Author : Peter Brackney
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625851284

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Lost Lexington, Kentucky by Peter Brackney Pdf

Lexington has dozens of well-restored landmarks, but unfortunately so many more are lost forever. The famous Phoenix Hotel, a longtime stop for weary travelers and politicians alike, has risen from its own ashes numerous times over the past centuries. The works of renowned architect John McMurtry were once numerous around town, but some of the finest examples are gone. The Centrepointe block has been made and unmade so many times that its original tenants are unknown to natives now. Join local blogger, attorney and preservationist Peter Brackney as he explores the intriguing back stories of these hidden Bluegrass treasures.

Author : Cynthia Mills,Cynthia J. Mills,Pamela Hemenway Simpson
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Art
ISBN : 1572332727

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Monuments to the Lost Cause by Cynthia Mills,Cynthia J. Mills,Pamela Hemenway Simpson Pdf

This richly illustrated collection of fourteen essays examines the ways in which Confederate memorials - from Monument Avenue to Stone Mountain - and the public rituals surrounding them testify to the tenets of the Lost Cause, a romanticized narrative of the war. Several essays highlight the creative leading role played by women's groups in memorialization, while others explore the alternative ways in which people outside white southern culture wrote their very different histories on the southern landscape. The authors - who include Richard Guy Wilson, Catherine W. Bishir, W. Fitzhugh Brundage, and William M.S. Ramussen - trace the origins, objectives, and changing consequences of Confederate monuments over time and the dynamics of individuals and organizations that sponsored them. Thus these essays extend the growing literature on the rhetoric of the Lost Cause by shifting the focus to the realm of the visual. They are especially relevant in the present day when Confederate symbols and monuments continue to play a central role in a public - and often emotionally charged - debate about how the South's past should be remembered. The editors: Art Historian Cynthia Mills, a specialist in nineteenth-century public sculpture, is executive editor of American Art, the scholarly journal of the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Pamela H. Simpson is the Ernest Williams II Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University. She is the coauthor of The Architecture of Historic Lexington.

Author : James D. Birchfield
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813185514

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Clay Lancaster's Kentucky by James D. Birchfield Pdf

"Clay Lancaster was infected by a love of architecture at an early age, a gentle madness from which he never cared to recover."—From the Foreword, by Roger W. Moss It is easy to take for granted the visual environment that we inhabit. Familiarity with routes of travel and places of work or leisure leads to indifference, and we fail to notice incremental changes. When a dilapidated building is eliminated by new development, it is forgotten as soon as its replacement becomes a part of our daily landscape. When an addition is grafted onto the shell of a house fallen out of fashion or function, onlookers might notice at first, but the memory of its original form is eventually lost. Also forgotten is the use a building once served. From historic homes to livestock barns, each structure holds a place in the community and can tell us as much about its citizens as their portraits and memoirs. Such is the vital yet intangible role that architecture plays in our collective memory. Clay Lancaster (1917-2000) began during the Great Depression to document and to encourage the preservation of America's architectural patrimony. He was a pioneer of American historic preservation before the movement had a name. Although he established himself as an expert on Brooklyn brownstones and California bungalows, the nationally known architectural historian also spent four decades photographing architecture in his native Kentucky. Lancaster did not consider himself a photographer. His equipment consisted of nothing more complex than a handheld camera, and his images were only meant for his own personal use in documenting memorable and endangered structures. He had the eye of an artist, however, and recognized the importance of vernacular architecture. The more than 150 duotone photographs in Clay Lancaster's Kentucky preserve the beauty of commonplace buildings as well as historic mansions and monuments. With insightful commentary by James D. Birchfield about the photographs and about Lancaster's work in Kentucky, the book documents the many buildings and architectural treasures—both existing and long gone—whose images and stories remain a valuable part of the state's heritage.

Author : American Institute of Architects
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Architecture
ISBN : PURD:32754076764848

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Proceedings of the ... Annual Convention of the American Institute of Architects by American Institute of Architects Pdf

Vol. for 1906/07 includes proceedings of the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of the Institute.

Author : Ronnie Dreistadt
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625841872

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Lost Bluegrass by Ronnie Dreistadt Pdf

The Bluegrass region has come to define what makes Kentucky a place unlike any other. What began as the homeland of native tribes developed into ideal farmland for early settlers. Development continued as the region evolved into the premier breeding grounds for world-famous thoroughbreds, helping to bring the Bluegrass international recognition as the epicenter of American horseracing and equestrian culture. Yet development of the region has never stopped. The rolling hills, limestone fences and legendary horse farms that once defined the landscape continue to vanish as suburban sprawl stretches into the far reaches of the Bluegrass. Join author Ronnie Dreistadt as he tracks the history of the Bluegrass, what's been lost and the ongoing efforts to save what remains.

Author : Lars Botin,Inger Berling Hyams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-02-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781793609441

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Postphenomenology and Architecture by Lars Botin,Inger Berling Hyams Pdf

Architecture and urban design are typically considered as a result of artistic creativity performed by gifted individuals. Postphenomenology and Architecture: Human Technology Relations in the Built Environment analyzes buildings and cities instead as technologies. Informed by a postphenomenological perspective, this book argues that buildings and the furniture of cities—like bike lanes, benches, and bus stops—are inscribed in a conceptual framework of multistability, which is to say that they fulfill different purposes over time. Yet, there are qualities in the built environment that are long lasting and immutable and that transcend temporal functionality and ephemeral efficiency. The contributors show how different perceptions, practices, and interpretations are tangible and visible as we engage with these technologies. In addition, several of the chapters critically assess the influence of Martin Heidegger in modern philosophy of architecture. This book reads Heidegger from the perspective of architecture and urban design as technology, shedding light on what it means to build and dwell.

Author : Clay Lancaster
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0813117593

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Antebellum Architecture of Kentucky by Clay Lancaster Pdf

" By the author of the acclaimed Antebellum Houses of the Bluegrass, this book includes significant structures from throughout the commonwealth, illustrating the entire range of stylistic architectural development."

Author : Angel David Nieves
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781580469098

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An Architecture of Education by Angel David Nieves Pdf

Examines material culture and the act of institution creation, especially through architecture and landscape, to recount a deeper history of the lives of African American women in the post-Civil War South.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IBNF:CF005698345

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A Dictionary Geographical, Statistical, and Historical of the Various Countries, Places, and Principal Natural Objects in the World by J. R. M'Culloch by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UFL:31262043710994

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The American Architect and Building News by Anonim Pdf

Author : J. R. M'Culloch
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752576443

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A Dictionary: Geographical, statistical, and historical by J. R. M'Culloch Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1866.

Author : Paul Hardin Kapp
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781626742918

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The Architecture of William Nichols by Paul Hardin Kapp Pdf

The Architecture of William Nichols: Building the Antebellum South in North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi is the first comprehensive biography and monograph of a significant yet overlooked architect in the American South. William Nichols designed three major university campuses—the University of North Carolina, the University of Alabama, and the University of Mississippi. He also designed the first state capitols of North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi. Nichols's architecture profoundly influenced the built landscape of the South but due to fire, neglect, and demolition, much of his work was lost and history has nearly forgotten his tremendous legacy. In his research onsite and through archives in North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi, Paul Hardin Kapp has produced a narrative of the life and times of William Nichols that weaves together the elegant work of this architect with the aspirations and challenges of the Antebellum South. It is richly illustrated with over two hundred archival photographs and drawings from the Historic American Building Survey.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X001788855

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American Architect by Anonim Pdf