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Author
Publisher
Fairchild Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This book offers a comprehensive overview of historic preservation with a focus on historic interiors, historic building materials, and the adaptive reuse of interiors. This text includes a brief history of preservation in the United States, criteria to determine whether a building is historic, a discussion of preservation law, and how to document historic buildings with a focus on design and understanding functional and aesthetic requirements. The...
Author
Publisher
Arje Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Celebrates conservation programs in 42 communities, that are saving natural areas, farmland and open space using such methods as development rights transfer, open space taxes, and preservation of species efforts. Communities include Pima County, Arizona.
11) Monticello
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[between 2000 and 2009?]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"This book is a results-oriented, straight-talking guide for local activists, professionals, and preservation commissions committed to winning and maintaining local historic districts. Its political approach focuses on the crucial challenges of gaining and sustaining community and local governmental support for historic district regulations."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Pub
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Includes information on Charles Bulfinch, classicism, Charles Louis Clerisseau, Elenora Coolidge, Maria Hadfield Cosway, Derby Mansion, Federal Hall (New York), Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Pierre Charles L'Enfant, Monticello, Andrea Palladio, Charles Willson Peale, Anna Maria Brodeau Thornton, U.S. Capitol, Virginia State Capitol, University of Virginia, George Washington, etc.
Author
Publisher
Island Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In The Past and Future City, Stephanie Meeks, the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, describes in detail, and with unique empirical research, the many ways that saving and restoring historic fabric can help a city create thriving neighborhoods, good jobs, and a vibrant economy. She explains the critical importance of preservation for all our communities, the ways the historic preservation field has evolved to embrace the challenges...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
On the picturesque bluffs of Martha's Vineyard, disaster looms. The historic Gay Head Lighthouse, weighing more than 400 tons and soaring 175 feet above the sea, is precipitously close to toppling into the ocean. As a team of engineers attempts to move the iconic red brick structure inland to safety, discover the geology they encounter, the archaeology they discover, and technology they employ in this lighthouse rescue.
Author
Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes unaware that these acts are possible only thanks to the preservation movement. As we approach the October 2016 anniversary of the United States National Historic Preservation Act, historian Max Page offers a thoughtful assessment of the movement's past and charts a path toward a more progressive future. Page argues that if preservation is to play a central role...