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Book Chatham Village

    Book Details:
  • Author : Angelique Bamberg
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
  • Release : 2014-09-08
  • ISBN : 0822980703
  • Pages : 344 pages

Download or read book Chatham Village written by Angelique Bamberg and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2014-09-08 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chatham Village, located in the heart of Pittsburgh, is an urban oasis that combines Georgian colonial revival architecture with generous greenspaces, recreation facilities, surrounding woodlands, and many other elements that make living there a unique experience. Founded in 1932, it has gained international recognition as an outstanding example of the American Garden City planning movement and was named a National Historic Landmark in 2005. Chatham Village was the brainchild of Charles F. Lewis, then director of the Buhl Foundation, a Pittsburgh-based charitable trust. Lewis sought an alternative to the substandard housing that plagued low-income families in the city. He hired the New York-based team of Clarence S. Stein and Henry Wright, followers of Ebenezer Howard's utopian Garden City movement, which sought to combine the best of urban and suburban living environments by connecting individuals to each other and to nature. Angelique Bamberg provides the first book-length study of Chatham Village, in which she establishes its historical significance to urban planning and reveals the complex development process, social significance, and breakthrough construction and landscaping techniques that shaped this idyllic community. She also relates the design of Chatham Village to the work of other pioneers in urban planning, including Frederick Law Olmsted Sr., landscape architect John Nolen, and the Regional Planning Association of America, and considers the different ways that Chatham Village and the later New Urbanist movement address a common set of issues. Above all, Bamberg finds that Chatham Village's continued viability and vibrance confirms its distinction as a model for planned housing and urban-based community living.

Book I Am of Chatham

    Book Details:
  • Author : john whelan
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-09-20
  • ISBN : 9780976711520
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book I Am of Chatham written by john whelan and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of 65 people who represent a cross section of the people of Chatham, Massachusetts. Each subject will submit a short essay about their life in Chatham. Each subject will have a photograph taken by photographer Kim Roderiques. The author will write a descriptive sentence or sentences about the subject.

Book Chatham

    Book Details:
  • Author : Janet M. Daly
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780738509891
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Chatham written by Janet M. Daly and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chatham is a historic Cape Cod town with coastline on Nantucket Sound and the Atlantic Ocean. The first European settler, William Nickerson, recognized its beauty and knew that farming and fishing would provide sustenance for future settlers. Chatham has many stories to tell-tales of boating and fishing, railroads and hotels, churches and theaters, shipwrecks and rescues, and wireless communication and war efforts. With vivid photographs, Chatham brings the town to life from the early 1800s to the 1960s. In these pages, see Chatham's lighthouse, which has warned of treacherous sandbars off the coast and has witnessed hundreds of shipwrecks since 1808, and the Mack Monument, which memorializes one valiant rescue. Visit the South Chatham Village Hall, which has rocked with laughter at Silver Circle entertainments; the Fourth of July parades; the 1912 and 1962 festivities celebrating Chatham's incorporation; and the weekly summer band concerts. Learn how technology changed Chatham from the arrival of the railroad and the building of the Marconi Wireless Station to the construction of the Chatham Naval Air Station, with its blimps and seaplanes protecting the East Coast from German submarines during World War I.

Book A Trip Around Cape Cod

Download or read book A Trip Around Cape Cod written by Ezra G. Perry and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Prologue

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1982
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 284 pages

Download or read book Prologue written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Orb of Chatham

Download or read book The Orb of Chatham written by Bob Staake and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his own stunning black-and-white artwork, Cape Cod author-illustrator Bob Staake tells the tale of five witnesses who vanished inexplicably after reporting a strange floating "Orb" in Chatham, Massachusetts, in 1935.

Book Around the Village of Chatham

Download or read book Around the Village of Chatham written by Gail Blass Wolczanski and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1811, William Thomas built a tavern at the one busy site where the Albany and Hartford Turnpike intersected the Lebanon and Hudson Turnpike, and the village of Chatham was born. A store catering to stagecoach passengers soon followed in 1815. By 1850, the Hudson and Berkshire Railroad and the Western Railroad were established within sight of the tavern's central square. Shortly thereafter, Solomon Crandell's store and post office on the main street was receiving customers' mail addressed to Chatham Four Corners. There was a new school, three hotels, two churches, a gristmill, a foundry, several retail stores, two publications, and a village doctor. The Columbia Bank was founded in 1859 in response to the volume of trade and manufacturing in the village. Paper mills, iron foundries, wagon manufacturers, shirt factories, agriculture, and freight train service all helped to propel the development of the village of Chatham.

Book The Encyclopedia of Chicago

Download or read book The Encyclopedia of Chicago written by James R. Grossman and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive historical reference on metropolitan Chicago encompasses more than 1,400 entries on such topics as neighborhoods, ethnic groups, cultural institutions, and business history, and furnishes interpretive essays on the literary images of Chicago, the built environment, and the city's sports culture.

Book Miscellaneous Documents

Download or read book Miscellaneous Documents written by United States. Congress. House and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chatham School Affair

Download or read book The Chatham School Affair written by Thomas H. Cook and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What drove a woman to murder in 1920s New England? “Few readers will be prepared for the surprise that awaits at novel’s end” in this Edgar Award–winning novel (Publishers Weekly, starred review). It was referred to as the Chatham School affair—a tragic event that destroyed five lives, shook a coastal Massachusetts community to its core, and traumatized a boy named Henry Griswald. Now Henry is an aged, unmarried lawyer, and as he writes his will, he recalls that long-ago day in 1926 when something drove his teacher to murder—and contemplates the role he played in it all . . . “Cook is a master, precise and merciless, at showing the slow-motion shattering of families and relationships . . . The Chatham School Affair ranks with his best.” —Chicago Tribune “Such a seductive book.” —The New York Times Book Review “Like the best of his crime-writing colleagues, Cook uses the genre to open a window onto the human condition . . . [a] literate, compelling novel.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Book The New York Red Book

Download or read book The New York Red Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1002 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gazetteer and Business Directory of Columbia County  N  Y

Download or read book Gazetteer and Business Directory of Columbia County N Y written by Hamilton Child and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Book Johnson s  revised  Universal Cyclopaedia

Download or read book Johnson s revised Universal Cyclopaedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lippincott s Gazetteer of the World

Download or read book Lippincott s Gazetteer of the World written by and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 2488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lippincott s Gazetteer of the World

Download or read book Lippincott s Gazetteer of the World written by Joseph Thomas and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 2982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Johnson s Univeral Cyclop  dia

Download or read book Johnson s Univeral Cyclop dia written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: