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Author : George Humphrey Yetter,Carl R. Lounsbury
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780300248357
This up-to-date and comprehensive look at the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg illuminates the important role it has played in our understanding of 18th-century America.
Author : George Humphrey Yetter
Publisher : Colonial Williamsburg
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0879350776
George Yetter's informative text describes why Williamsburg was founded and flourished during the colonial period. He traces the deterioration that followed when the capital moved to Richmond in 1780, and concludes with the exciting story of how Williamsburg's past was saved. Old photographs, daguerreotypes, watercolors, sketches, and maps capture "pre-restoration" Williamsburg. Lovely color "after" photographs show that the vision and dream have been fulfilled.
Author : Anders Greenspan
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469625676
In Creating Colonial Williamsburg, Anders Greenspan examines the restoration and re-creation of the structures and gardens of Virginia's colonial capital beginning in 1926. The restoration was undertaken by the Rockefeller family, whose aim was to promote a twentieth-century appreciation for eighteenth-century ideals. Ironically, those ideals, including democracy, individualism, and representative government, were often promoted at the expense of a more complete understanding of the town's true history. The meaning and purpose of Colonial Williamsburg has changed over time, along with America's changing social and political landscapes, making the study of this historic site a unique and meaningful entry point to understanding the shifting modern American character. In recent years, financial struggles and declining attendance forced a new interpretation of the town, extending the presentation into the period of the American Revolution, while adding new interpretive approaches such as street theater and a greater emphasis on technology. Over its eighty-year history, says Greenspan, Colonial Williamsburg has grown and matured, while still retaining its emphasis on the importance of eighteenth-century values and their application in the modern world.
Author : Tim McNeese
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781646936779
Settled in 1633, Williamsburg was first known as Middle Plantation because it was located between the James and York rivers. In 1693, the nation's second-oldest institution of higher education, the College of William and Mary, was founded there. In 1699, the settlement became the capital of England's largest and richest colony, Virginia. These are just some of the many fascinating facts found in Williamsburg. This resourceful volume, filled with detailed historical information on the people and events surrounding the development of this colony, is an integral part of the new Colonial Settlements in America set.
Author : Williamsburg Restoration, inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015002669045
Author : Colonial Williamsburg, inc
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Buildings
ISBN : UOM:39015035749327
Author : Sue Corbett
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762766215
Insiders' Guide to Williamsburg and Virginia's Historic Triangle is the essential source for in-depth travel and relocation information to Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown. Written by a local (and true insider), this guide offers a personal and practical perspective of the cities and the surrounding environs.
Author : Thomas H. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Williamsburg (Va.)
ISBN : UVA:X004218772
Author : Judy Alter
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0756503000
Describes Williamsburg and explains the role it played in the history of the United States.
Author : Thomas Parrish
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780813126838
Mother Ann Lee, founder of the Shakers, articulated a vision of a community that embraced sacrifice over the needs of the individual; the result was one of the most successful utopian experiments of nineteenth-century America. The Shakers, an idealistic offshoot of the ascetic Quaker religion, grew to as many as six thousand members in nineteen communities reaching from New England to the Midwest. Lee’s experiment, focused mainly on simplicity, celibate communal living, and sexual equality, provided a model of prosperity for more than one hundred years. Founded in 1806, Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill, Kentucky, was a thriving community located in the center of the bluegrass region. After the Civil War, a steadily shrinking membership resulted in the gradual decline of this remarkable community, and the last remaining Shaker to reside at Pleasant Hill died in 1923. In the years immediately following, it appeared as though the village would fall prey to neglect and a lack of historic preservation. In 1961, however, local citizens formed a private not-for-profit organization to preserve and restore the village and to interpret the rich heritage of the Pleasant Hill Shakers for future generations. Over several years, and against incredible odds, this group succeeded in raising the funds necessary for the restoration projects. By 1968, eight buildings at Shakertown, carefully adapted for modern use while retaining their historical and architectural significance, had been opened to the public. Thomas Parrish’s Restoring Shakertown masterfully explains how the Shaker settlement was saved from the ravages of time and transformed into a nationally renowned landmark of historic preservation. In chronicling how the hopes of the early fund-raisers quickly were challenged by the harsh reality of economic hardships, the book serves as a valuable study in modern philanthropy. Parrish also details the village’s negotiation of legal challenges and how its final plans for creating awareness of the Shakers’ legacy set the standard for later museum developments around the country. In addition to recounting the remarkable history of the formation and eventual demise of the “Shaking Quakers,” Parrish presents a dramatic chronicle of the village’s evolving fortunes. From describing the challenges of financing the restoration to finding preservation experts to achieve the highest standards of authenticity, Restoring Shakertown reveals the complexities and rewards of the preservation of one of Kentucky’s most significant historical and architectural sites.
Author : Hoke P. Kimball,Bruce Henson
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781476625935
This comprehensive survey of British colonial governors' houses and buildings used as state houses or capitols in the North American colonies begins with the founding of the Virginia Colony and ends with American independence. In addition to the 13 colonies that became the United States in 1783, the study includes three colonies in present-day Florida and Canada--East Florida, West Florida and the Province of Quebec--obtained by Great Britain after the French and Indian War.
Author : Williamsburg Restoration, Incorporated
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Art objects
ISBN : OSU:32435074162231
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Architecture
ISBN : CORNELL:31924014009348
Author : Miles Orvell
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780807837566
For more than a century, the term "Main Street" has conjured up nostalgic images of American small-town life. Representations exist all around us, from fiction and film to the architecture of shopping malls and Disneyland. All the while, the nation has become increasingly diverse, exposing tensions within this ideal. In The Death and Life of Main Street, Miles Orvell wrestles with the mythic allure of the small town in all its forms, illustrating how Americans continue to reinscribe these images on real places in order to forge consensus about inclusion and civic identity, especially in times of crisis. Orvell underscores the fact that Main Street was never what it seemed; it has always been much more complex than it appears, as he shows in his discussions of figures like Sinclair Lewis, Willa Cather, Frank Capra, Thornton Wilder, Margaret Bourke-White, and Walker Evans. He argues that translating the overly tidy cultural metaphor into real spaces--as has been done in recent decades, especially in the new urbanist planned communities of Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk and Andres Duany--actually diminishes the communitarian ideals at the center of this nostalgic construct. Orvell investigates the way these tensions play out in a variety of cultural realms and explores the rise of literary and artistic traditions that deliberately challenge the tropes and assumptions of small-town ideology and life.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1935
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X000618443