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Book The Architectural History of Jones County  North Carolina

Download or read book The Architectural History of Jones County North Carolina written by Christina Moon and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many travelers have passed through Jones County over the years and remember the oak-lined streets in the county seat of Trenton, the impressive courthouse, and the old Brock Mill with its gentle overflow and cypress-covered pond. Others remember the southern homes in the towns of Maysville and Pollocksville, and the brick plantation home of the Foscue family just north of Pollocksville. Though Jones County was settled as an extension of New Bern in the early eighteenth century, it came into its own during the antebellum period with substantial plantation homes, often featuring two-story porches. The distance between these homes, set upon a flat landscape of cleared agricultural fields, and separated by the meandering Trent and White Oak rivers, pocosins, and forestlands, only added to their individual grandeur. This book offers a glimpse of these historic resources. Initiated as a countywide survey in the late 1990s, it is the culmination of years of additional fieldwork and research designed to add context to the individual buildings and agricultural structures along with a sense of the people who had inhabited them. Though many of these structures have disappeared with time, documented only through photographs and drawings, much of the rich architectural heritage of the county is still visible today. Of almost equal importance, Jones County retains its rural character, including its managed forestlands and vast open landscapes of cultivated fields of cotton, tobacco, corn, and soybeans. It is our sincere hope that The Architectural History of Jones County, North Carolina will provide readers with a deeper appreciation of the rich and diversified heritage of this unique county in the southeastern coastal plain of North Carolina.

Book The Architectural History of Watauga County  North Carolina

Download or read book The Architectural History of Watauga County North Carolina written by J. Daniel Pezzoni and published by Bw&a Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The architectural history of historic Watauga County in the mountains of North Carolina. Heavily illustrated and engagingly written, this book includes an essay about the history of the county and a comprehensive property inventory.

Book The Architectural History of Franklin County  North Carolina

Download or read book The Architectural History of Franklin County North Carolina written by Daniel Pezzoni and published by . This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly illustrated volume--the result of nearly a century of scholarship--tells the story of Franklin County's change through the lens of its remarkable architectural heritage. The original houses were modest dwellings of frame, log, and occasionally stone construction; wealthier farmers ornamented their houses in the Georgian and Federal styles. Mills, churches, and country stores provided focal points for the largely rural population. Later generations built impressive residences in the Greek Revival and Italianate styles. Cotton and tobacco undergirded economic development well into the twentieth century, attracting railroads and industry that contributed to the growth of Louisburg, Bunn, Franklinton, Youngsville, and other communities. Churches provided important support to the African American community, as did educational institutions like the county's many Rosenwald schools. Craftsman bungalows, Ranch houses, and notable examples of Modernist design enlivened county architecture during the twentieth century.

Book Southern Built

    Book Details:
  • Author : Catherine W. Bishir
  • Publisher : University of Virginia Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780813925394
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Southern Built written by Catherine W. Bishir and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Jacob W. Holt, An American Builder"; "Good and Sufficient Language for Building"; "Black Builders in Antebellum North Carolina"; "Mr. Jones Goes to Richmond: A Note on the Influence of Alexander Parris's Wickham House"; "Philadelphia Bricks for New Bern Jail"; "'Severe Survitude to House Building': The Construction of Hayes Plantation House, 1814-17"; "The Montmorenci--Prospect Hill School: A Study of High-Style Vernacular Architecture in the Roanoke Valley"; "The 'Unpainted Aristocracy': The Beach Cottages of Old Nags Head"; "'A Strong Force of Ladies': Women, Politics, and Confederate Memorial Associations in Nineteenth-Century Raleigh"; "Landmarks of Power: Building a Southern Past, 1885-1915"; "Looking at North Carolina's History Through Architecture"; "Yuppies and Bubbas and the Politics of Culture in Historic Preservation"

Book The Architecture of Warren County  North Carolina

Download or read book The Architecture of Warren County North Carolina written by Kenneth McFarland and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Coastal Plain and Fancy

Download or read book Coastal Plain and Fancy written by Margaret Ruth Little and published by . This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Architectural History of Richmond County  North Carolina

Download or read book The Architectural History of Richmond County North Carolina written by Edward F. Turberg and published by . This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina

Download or read book A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina written by Catherine W. Bishir and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central North Carolina boasts a rich and varied architectural landscape. This richly illustrated guide offers a fascinating look at the Piedmont's historic architecture, covering more than 2,000 sites in 34 counties. 535 illustrations.

Book The Early Architecture of North Carolina

Download or read book The Early Architecture of North Carolina written by Frances Benjamin Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book North Carolina Architecture

Download or read book North Carolina Architecture written by Catherine W. Bishir and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning, lavishly illustrated history displays the wide range of North Carolina's architectural heritage, from colonial times to the beginning of World War II. North Carolina Architecture addresses the state's grand public and private buildings that have become familiar landmarks, but it also focuses on the quieter beauty of more common structures: farmhouses, barns, urban dwellings, log houses, mills, factories, and churches. These buildings, like the people who created them and who have used them, are central to the character of North Carolina. Now in a convenient new format, this portable edition of North Carolina Architecture retains all of the text of the original edition as well as hundreds of halftones by master photographer Tim Buchman. Catherine Bishir's narrative analyzes construction and design techniques and locates the structures in their cultural, political, and historical contexts. This extraordinary history of North Carolina's built world presents a unique and valuable portrait of the state.

Book Architects and Builders in North Carolina

Download or read book Architects and Builders in North Carolina written by Catherine W. Bishir and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina

Download or read book A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina written by Catherine W. Bishir and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to the Historic Architecture of Western North Carolina

Book Greene Along Contentnea

Download or read book Greene Along Contentnea written by Penne Smith Sandbeck and published by . This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Martin County Architectural Heritage

Download or read book Martin County Architectural Heritage written by Thomas Russell Butchko and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina

Download or read book A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina written by Catherine W. Bishir and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not just the Cupola House and Tryon Palace, but tobacco barns, shotgun houses, textile factories, and railroad stations, too. A feast of North Carolina's historic structures that will stand as a definitive source for many years". -- Roy Parker Jr., contributing editor, Fayetteville Observer- Times Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Book The Civil War and Yadkin County  North Carolina

Download or read book The Civil War and Yadkin County North Carolina written by Frances H. Casstevens and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Located in the western piedmont of North Carolina, Yadkin County was hardly a hotbed of rebellion at the start of the Civil War. Many of the 1,200 men from Yadkin who served in the Confederate Army did so with distinction, but a number deserted. Some of these holed up in the Bond School House, and when the militia attempted to arrest them, four were killed and several others were wounded. This is a comprehensive accounting of how the county responded to the Civil War and the effect it had on Yadkin’s citizens, civilian and military alike.

Book The Historic Architecture of Wake County  North Carolina

Download or read book The Historic Architecture of Wake County North Carolina written by Kelly A. Lally and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: