The Baltimore Rowhouse

Author : Charles Belfoure,Mary Ellen Hayward
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781568989563

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The Baltimore Rowhouse by Charles Belfoure,Mary Ellen Hayward Pdf

Perhaps no other American city is so defined by an indigenous architectural style as Baltimore is by the rowhouse, whose brick facades march up and down the gentle hills of the city. Why did the rowhouse thrive in Baltimore? How did it escape destruction here, unlike in many other historic American cities? What were the forces that led to the citywide renovation of Baltimore's rowhouses? The Baltimore Rowhouse tells the fascinating 200-year story of this building type. It chronicles the evolution of the rowhouse from its origins as speculative housing for immigrants, through its reclamation and renovation by young urban pioneers thanks to local government sponsorship, to its current occupation by a new cadre of wealthy professionals.

Author : Natalie Wilkins Shivers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN : 0940776006

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Those Old Placid Rows by Natalie Wilkins Shivers Pdf

Author : Alison K. Hoagland
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-10
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813949468

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The Row House in Washington, DC by Alison K. Hoagland Pdf

With The Row House in Washington, DC, the architectural historian and preservationist Alison Hoagland turns the lucid prose style and keen analytical skill that characterize all her scholarship to the subject of the Washington row house. Row houses have long been an important component of the housing stock of many major American cities, predominantly sheltering the middle classes comprising clerks, tradespeople, and artisans. In Washington, with its plethora of government workers, they are the dominant typology of the historical city. Hoagland identifies six principal row house types—two-room, L-shaped, three-room, English-basement, quadrant, and kitchen-forward—and documents their wide-ranging impact, as sources of income and statements of attainment as well as domiciles for nuclear families or boarders, homeowners or renters, long tenancy or short stays. Through restrictive covenants on some house sales, they also illustrate the pervasive racism that has haunted the city. This topical study demonstrates at once the distinctive character of the Washington row house and the many similarities it shares with row houses in other mid-Atlantic cities. In a broader sense, it also shows how urban dwellers responded to a challenging concatenation of spatial, regulatory, financial, and demographic limitations, providing a historical model for new, innovative designs. Publication of this volume was assisted by a grant from Furthermore: a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.

Author : Charles Duff
Publisher : Oro Editions
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Atlantic Coast (Europe)
ISBN : 1908457538

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The North Atlantic Cities by Charles Duff Pdf

The North Atlantic Cities by Charles B. Duff, which is available for the first time in the United States, is a book on urban development and urban life masquerading as a book on architecture. It is the story of four hundred years of architecture and urban development in four countries: the Netherlands, Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States, particularly cities like New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, Baltimore, Savannah, to name a few. The author starts with a kind of building few others have considered--the row house--which could very well be the key to understanding why many of the world's great cities look and function as they do. From the 1600s to today as the author theorizes, this innocuous-seeming housing type is perhaps the antidote to suburban sprawl, urban decay, and the worst catastrophes of global climate change.

Author : W. Edward Orser
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780813148311

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Blockbusting in Baltimore by W. Edward Orser Pdf

This innovative study of racial upheaval and urban transformation in Baltimore, Maryland investigates the impact of "blockbusting" -- a practice in which real estate agents would sell a house on an all-white block to an African American family with the aim of igniting a panic among the other residents. These homeowners would often sell at a loss to move away, and the real estate agents would promote the properties at a drastic markup to African American buyers. In this groundbreaking book, W. Edward Orser examines Edmondson Village, a west Baltimore rowhouse community where an especially acute instance of blockbusting triggered white flight and racial change on a dramatic scale. Between 1955 and 1965, nearly twenty thousand white residents, who saw their secure world changing drastically, were replaced by blacks in search of the American dream. By buying low and selling high, playing on the fears of whites and the needs of African Americans, blockbusters set off a series of events that Orser calls "a collective trauma whose significance for recent American social and cultural history is still insufficiently appreciated and understood." Blockbusting in Baltimore describes a widely experienced but little analyzed phenomenon of recent social history. Orser makes an important contribution to community and urban studies, race relations, and records of the African American experience.

Author : Mary Ellen Hayward
Publisher : Creating the North American La
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015082731913

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Baltimore's Alley Houses by Mary Ellen Hayward Pdf

Winner, 2009 Abbott Lowell Cummings Prize. Vernacular Architecture Forum This pioneering study explains how one of America’s important early cities responded to the challenge of housing its poorer citizens. Where and how did the working poor live? How did builders and developers provide reasonably priced housing for lower-income groups during the city's growth? Having studied over 3,000 surviving alley houses in Baltimore through extensive land records and census research, Mary Ellen Hayward systematically reconstructs the lives, households, and neighborhoods that once thrived on the city's narrowest streets. In the past, these neighborhoods were sometimes referred to as "dilapidated," "blighted," or "poverty stricken." In Baltimore's Alley Houses, Hayward reveals the rich cultural and ethnic traditions that formed the African-American and immigrant Irish, German, Bohemian, and Polish communities that made their homes on the city's alley streets. Featuring more than one hundred historic images, Baltimore's Alley Houses documents the changing architectural styles of low-income housing over two centuries and reveals the complex lives of its residents.

Author : Mary Ellen Hayward,Frank R. Shivers
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0801878063

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The Architecture of Baltimore by Mary Ellen Hayward,Frank R. Shivers Pdf

Romantic stylings follow excursions into the Greek and Gothic Revivals, the rise of the popular Italianate-mode for town and country houses : fine examples of soaring church spires; public spaces like the Peabody Library, and masterpieces of ornamented dignity."

Author : Brennen Jensen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467145763

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History Lover's Guide to Baltimore, A by Brennen Jensen Pdf

"Neither southern nor northern, Baltimore has charted its own course through the American experience. The spires of the nation's first cathedral rose into its sky, and the first blood of the Civil War fell on its streets. Here, enslaved Frederick Douglass toiled before fleeing to freedom and Billie Holiday learned to sing. Baltimore's clippers plied the seven seas, while its pioneering railroads opened the prairie West. The city that birthed "The Star-Spangled Banner" also gave us Babe Ruth and the bottle cap. This guide navigates nearly three hundred years of colorful history--from Johns Hopkins's earnest philanthropy to the raucous camp of John Waters and from modest row houses to the marbled mansions of the Gilded Age. Let local authors Brennen Jensen and Tom Chalkley introduce you to Mencken's "ancient and solid" city--]cBack cover.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781618586025

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Historic Photos of Baltimore by Anonim Pdf

From the Great Fire to the Preakness, blue crabs to row houses, Historic Photos of Baltimore is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives. With around 200 photographs, many of which have never been published, this beautiful coffee table book shows the historical growth from the mid 1800's to the late 1900's of ?the Monument City? in stunning black and white photography. The book follows life, government, events and people important to Baltimore and the building of this unique city. Spanning over two centuries and two hundred photographs, this is a must have for any long-time resident or history lover of Baltimore!

Author : Daniel Craig Goddard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:C3487179

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Cultivating Change and Variety by Daniel Craig Goddard Pdf

Author : Jack Myers
Publisher : Infinity Publishing
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2005-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780741424792

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Row House Days by Jack Myers Pdf

Fictionalized memoir which explores the dynamics of being raised in a declining Southwest Philadelphia neighborhood. Pint-sized and four-eyed, little Jimmy Morris is near the bottom of the food chain in his working class "streetcar suburb" of Kings Cross. He's a dreamer, schemer, schoolyard scrapper, secret lover of books, and classroom clown ... a kid you can't decide whether to hug or to slap. Meanwhile, the conformity of the 1950s is yielding to those turbulent '60s. Yes, the times they definitely were a changin' with Kings Cross in the eye of the societal storm.

Author : Charles Duff,Tracey Clark
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0738542814

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Baltimore Architecture by Charles Duff,Tracey Clark Pdf

Baltimore, Maryland, is one of America's oldest and most beautiful big cities. Twelve generations of Baltimoreans have built and destroyed some of America's best constructions. Then and Now: Baltimore Architecture shows the dramatic building and rebuilding of architecture around the city's harbor, in its downtown, and throughout its great historic neighborhoods.

Author : Paul K. Williams
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781909108431

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Lost Baltimore by Paul K. Williams Pdf

Lost Baltimore is the latest in the series from Anova Books that traces the cherished places in a city that time, progress and fashion have swept aside before the National Register of Historic Places could save them from the wrecker's ball.Organised chronologically starting with the earliest losses and ending with the latest, the book features much-loved Philadelphia insitutions that failed to stand the test of time, such as the Sun Iron Building, Electric Amusement Park and the Rennert Hotel.Grand buildings erected in the Victorian era that were too costly to be refurbished, or movie theaters that the age of television made redundant are featured. Alongside the city's iconic and much-missed buildings, Lost Baltimore also looks at some traditions that have passed (marble doorsteps, painted window screens) and sporting legends that have relocated (Baltimore Colts, Baltimore Bullets).Lost Baltimore is a nostalgic journey back in time to visit some of the lost treasures that the city let slip through its grasp.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Vernacular architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015047828226

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Vernacular Architecture Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : John R. Dorsey,James D. Dilts
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015040155973

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A Guide to Baltimore Architecture by John R. Dorsey,James D. Dilts Pdf

From eighteenth-century mansions to urban high-rise buildings, the book chronicles two hundred years of architectural history through an exploration of the city's most beautiful and significant structures. Grouped by neighborhood in walking and driving tours, each building is pictured and described with a commentary on its history and style.