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Book Architecture in Downtown Richmond

Download or read book Architecture in Downtown Richmond written by Robert P. Winthrop and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Architecture of Historic Richmond

Download or read book The Architecture of Historic Richmond written by Paul S. Dulaney and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Art of Architecture in Downtown Richmond  1798 1989

Download or read book The Art of Architecture in Downtown Richmond 1798 1989 written by Second Presbyterian Church (Richmond, Va.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richmond

    Book Details:
  • Author : Virginius Dabney
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2012-10-05
  • ISBN : 9780813934303
  • Pages : 512 pages

Download or read book Richmond written by Virginius Dabney and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2012-10-05 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the growth of this historic community over nearly four centuries from its founding to its most recent urban and suburban developments.

Book Richmond s Monument Avenue

Download or read book Richmond s Monument Avenue written by Sarah Shields Driggs and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, showing the most prestigious homes and distinguished architecture, as well as the statues that have often been a source of controversy.

Book Downtown Plan   Richmond  Virginia

Download or read book Downtown Plan Richmond Virginia written by Richmond (Va.). Dept. of Planning and Community Development and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Murals of Richmond

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mickael Broth
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-11-15
  • ISBN : 9780996091268
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Murals of Richmond written by Mickael Broth and published by . This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic history of the murals the make up the landscape of Richmond.

Book Death and Rebirth in a Southern City

Download or read book Death and Rebirth in a Southern City written by Ryan K. Smith and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of Richmond's burial landscape over the past 300 years reveals in illuminating detail how racism and the color line have consistently shaped death, burial, and remembrance in this storied Southern capital. Richmond, Virginia, the former capital of the Confederacy, holds one of the most dramatic landscapes of death in the nation. Its burial grounds show the sweep of Southern history on an epic scale, from the earliest English encounters with the Powhatan at the falls of the James River through slavery, the Civil War, and the long reckoning that followed. And while the region's deathways and burial practices have developed in surprising directions over these centuries, one element has remained stubbornly the same: the color line. But something different is happening now. The latest phase of this history points to a quiet revolution taking place in Virginia and beyond. Where white leaders long bolstered their heritage and authority with a disregard for the graves of the disenfranchised, today activist groups have stepped forward to reorganize and reclaim the commemorative landscape for the remains of people of color and religious minorities. In Death and Rebirth in a Southern City, Ryan K. Smith explores more than a dozen of Richmond's most historically and culturally significant cemeteries. He traces the disparities between those grounds which have been well-maintained, preserving the legacies of privileged whites, and those that have been worn away, dug up, and built over, erasing the memories of African Americans and indigenous tribes. Drawing on extensive oral histories and archival research, Smith unearths the heritage of these marginalized communities and explains what the city must do to conserve these gravesites and bring racial equity to these arenas for public memory. He also shows how the ongoing recovery efforts point to a redefinition of Confederate memory and the possibility of a rebirthed community in the symbolic center of the South. The book encompasses, among others, St. John's colonial churchyard; African burial grounds in Shockoe Bottom and on Shockoe Hill; Hebrew Cemetery; Hollywood Cemetery, with its 18,000 Confederate dead; Richmond National Cemetery; and Evergreen Cemetery, home to tens of thousands of black burials from the Jim Crow era. Smith's rich analysis of the surviving grounds documents many of these sites for the first time and is enhanced by an accompanying website, www.richmondcemeteries.org. A brilliant example of public history, Death and Rebirth in a Southern City reveals how cemeteries can frame changes in politics and society across time.

Book Richmond Landmarks

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katarina M. Spears
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 0738597627
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Richmond Landmarks written by Katarina M. Spears and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richmond boasts a long, rich history--early-17th-century English exploration, the 18th-century economic and philosophical road to the American Revolution, the center of the domestic slave trade in the 19th century, and the capital of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. Much of Richmond's history reflects a national history, and its important landmarks span several centuries, ranging from historic cemeteries to iconic buildings to grand-scale monuments. While these landmarks of national significance are a great draw for visitors, many of the city's lesser-known landmarks are a great source of local pride and provide a strong sense of place for Richmond natives and residents. Utilizing the historic prints, photographs, and documents collection of the Library of Virginia, Richmond Landmarks explores some of the most iconic landmarks of the city's social and cultural history.

Book The Building of the Richmond City Hall  1870 1894

Download or read book The Building of the Richmond City Hall 1870 1894 written by Dwight Leroy Young and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Richmond Homes and Memories

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  • Author : Robert Beverley Munford Jr.
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-06-01
  • ISBN : 9781258402549
  • Pages : 276 pages

Download or read book Richmond Homes and Memories written by Robert Beverley Munford Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The City at the Falls

Download or read book The City at the Falls written by Elizabeth Cook and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether made of stone, brick, or wood, the built environment is a bricolage of materials, skills, aesthetics, and practical needs. This dissertation disassembles the colonial and antebellum cityscape of Richmond, Virginia, into its component parts in order to better understand the relationships between builders, materials, and occupational knowledge as elements of the built environment, as well as the building culture that united them. This approach challenges the historically exalted place of architects and urban planners as the primary producers of a city, and instead focuses on the contributions of previously unknown carpenters, sawyers, joiners, bricklayers, and masons. These craftsmen labored together in occupational communities governed by generally accepted, though rarely written, rules that guided not only their daily practices, but also Richmond's evolution from a small port town to the industrial center of the antebellum South.

Book Twenty five Buildings by Carneal   Johnston  Richmond  Virginia

Download or read book Twenty five Buildings by Carneal Johnston Richmond Virginia written by Carneal and Johnston (Richmond, Va.) and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Making of Virginia Architecture

Download or read book The Making of Virginia Architecture written by Charles E. Brownell and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long tradition of architecture in Virginia begins with the earliest structures at the Jamestown settlement in 1607, and continues today with some of the most advanced buildings yet completed anywhere. In its legendary landmarks -- Mount Vernon, Monticello, the Virginia Capitol building in Richmond, the James River plantation mansions, the Reynolds Metals headquarters building in Richmond, Washington National Airport, and Dulles International Airport -- as well as in homes, churches, stores, and office buildings across the state, Virginia's architecture is a mirror of the many expressions of America's built environments. This book invites the readers on a journey through the eye and mind of the architect, from the very drawings that give shape and form to the idea, through the tracks and traces found in long lost letters, office records, and other primary sources. You will never see the buildings around you, anywhere, in the same way again. -- From publisher's description.

Book Official Guide to Historic Richmond

Download or read book Official Guide to Historic Richmond written by Historic Richmond Foundation and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: