Download or read book New Solutions for House Museums written by Donna Ann Harris and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2007-04-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A generational shift is occurring at historic house museums as board members and volunteers retire while few young people step forward to take their place. These landmarks are also plagued by serious deferred maintenance, and many have no endowment funds. What will happen to these sites in the next ten years, and what can be done to assure their continued preservation for generations to come? In New Solutions for House Museums Harris examines possible options and provides a decision-making methodology as well as a dozen case studies of house museums that have made a successful transition to a new owner or user.

Download or read book Historic Homes of America written by James Tackach and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating glimpse into the private world of some of America's most illustrious figures--from writers, artists and business entrepreneurs to military, political figures and presidents.

Download or read book Domesticating History written by Patricia West and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2013-09-03 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating the lives of famous men and women, historic house museums showcase restored rooms and period furnishings, and portray in detail their former occupants' daily lives. But behind the gilded molding and curtain brocade lie the largely unknown, politically charged stories of how the homes were first established as museums. Focusing on George Washington’s Mount Vernon, Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, and the Booker T. Washington National Monument, Patricia West shows how historic houses reflect less the lives and times of their famous inhabitants than the political pressures of the eras during which they were transformed into museums.

Download or read book Houses and Homes written by Barbara J. Howe and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1997 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Nearby History series helps the reader document the history of a home. The reader will learn to examine written records, oral testimonies, visual sources, and the house's surroundings. The author covers American housing patterns, the individual characteristics of houses in different regions, construction techniques and materials, household technology, and family life styles. Houses and Homes is Volume 2 in The Nearby History Series.

Download or read book American Property written by Stuart Banner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America, we are eager to claim ownership: our homes, our ideas, our organs, even our own celebrity. But beneath our nation’s proprietary longing looms a troublesome question: what does it mean to own something? More simply: what is property? The question is at the heart of many contemporary controversies, including disputes over who owns everything from genetic material to indigenous culture to music and film on the Internet. To decide if and when genes or culture or digits are a kind of property that can be possessed, we must grapple with the nature of property itself. How does it originate? What purposes does it serve? Is it a natural right or one created by law? Accessible and mercifully free of legal jargon, American Property reveals the perpetual challenge of answering these questions, as new forms of property have emerged in response to technological and cultural change, and as ideas about the appropriate scope of government regulation have shifted. This first comprehensive history of property in the United States is a masterly guided tour through a contested human institution that touches all aspects of our lives and desires. Stuart Banner shows that property exists to serve a broad set of purposes, constantly in flux, that render the idea of property itself inconstant. Despite our ideals of ownership, property has always been a means toward other ends. What property signifies and what property is, we come to see, has consistently changed to match the world we want to acquire.

Download or read book America s Historic Houses written by Editors of Country Beautiful and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and text of historic homes from the 18th century to the 20th century.

Download or read book If this House Could Talk written by Elizabeth Smith Brownstein and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descriptions of around twenty American homes, including Auldbrass Plantation near Yemessee, South Carolina.

Download or read book Florida s Historic African American Homes written by Jada Wright-Greene and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of Florida has a rich history of African Americans who have contributed to the advancement and growth of today. From slaves to millionaires, African Americans from all walks of life resided in cabins, homes, and stately mansions. The lives of millionaires, educators, businessmen, community leaders, and innovators in Florida's history are explored in each residence. Mary McLeod Bethune, A.L. Lewis, and D.A. Dorsey are a few of the prominent African Americans who not only resided in the state of Florida but also created opportunities for other blacks to further their lives in education and ownership of property and to have a better quality of life. One of the most humanistic traits found in history is the home of someone who has added something of value to society. Today, some of these residences serve as house museums, community art galleries, cultural institutions, and monuments that interpret and share the legacy of their owners.

Download or read book Historic Houses of Early America written by Elise Lathrop and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Historic Houses of Early America written by Elise Lathrop and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book America s Historic Houses written by Robert L. Polley and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pictorial survey that describes ninety American homes made famous by their historic or literary associations.

Download or read book The American Heritage History of Notable American Houses written by Marshall B. Davidson and published by Scribner. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses and photographs the diverse styles of housing popular in the United States over the centuries

Download or read book Historic Houses of Early America written by Elise Lathrop and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Historic Houses of Early America written by Elsie Lathrop and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.

Download or read book America s Historic Houses written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Field Guide to America s Historic Neighborhoods and Museum Houses written by Virginia McAlester and published by Knopf. This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the authors of the perennially popular "A Field Guide to American Houses" comes an encyclopedic reference covering the history and architecture of the American West, as told via its surviving old houses and neighborhoods. 300+ illustrations. 175 maps.

Download or read book A Field Guide to American Houses Revised written by Virginia Savage McAlester and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fully expanded, updated, and freshly designed second edition of the most comprehensive and widely acclaimed guide to domestic architecture: in print since its original publication in 1984, and acknowledged everywhere as the unmatched, essential guide to American houses. This revised edition includes a section on neighborhoods; expanded and completely new categories of house styles with photos and descriptions of each; an appendix on "Approaches to Construction in the 20th and 21st Centuries"; an expanded bibliography; and 600 new photographs and line drawings.