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Book American Victorian Architecture

Download or read book American Victorian Architecture written by Arnold Lewis and published by New York : Dover Publications. This book was released on 1975 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliant photos of 1870s, 1880s, showing finest domestic, public architecture; many buildings now gone. 120 plates.

Book The Victorian House Book

Download or read book The Victorian House Book written by Robin Guild and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1989 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide combines historical information with design ideas and advice on how to decorate, renovate and maintain a vintage home.

Book At Home in Nineteenth Century America

Download or read book At Home in Nineteenth Century America written by Amy G. Richter and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-01-23 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few institutions were as central to nineteenth-century American culture as the home. Emerging in the 1820s as a sentimental space apart from the public world of commerce and politics, the Victorian home transcended its initial association with the private lives of the white, native-born bourgeoisie to cross lines of race, ethnicity, class, and region. Throughout the nineteenth century, home was celebrated as a moral force, domesticity moved freely into the worlds of politics and reform, and home and marketplace repeatedly remade each other. At Home in Nineteenth-Century America draws upon advice manuals, architectural designs, personal accounts, popular fiction, advertising images, and reform literature to revisit the variety of places Americans called home. Entering into middle-class suburban houses, slave cabins, working-class tenements, frontier dugouts, urban settlement houses, it explores the shifting interpretations and experiences of these spaces from within and without. Nineteenth-century homes and notions of domesticity seem simultaneously distant and familiar. This sense of surprise and recognition is ideal for the study of history, preparing us to view the past with curiosity and empathy, inspiring comparisons to the spaces we inhabit today—malls, movie theaters, city streets, and college campuses. Permitting us to listen closely to the nineteenth century’s sweeping conversation about home in its various guises, At Home in Nineteenth-Century America encourages us to hear our contemporary conversation about the significance and meaning of home anew while appreciating the lingering imprint of past ideals. Instructor's Guide

Book The Victorian Home

Download or read book The Victorian Home written by Ellen M. Plante and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive tour of 19th century fashion and decor, The Victorian Home leads you through a typical period house, then describes how to recreate the warmth and charm of Victorian style in your own home.

Book The Christian Home in Victorian America  1840  1900

Download or read book The Christian Home in Victorian America 1840 1900 written by Colleen McDannell and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1994-03-22 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... wonderfully imaginative and provocative in its interdisciplinary approach to the study of nineteenth-century American religion and women's role within it."Â -- Choice "... an important addition to the fields of religious studies, women's history, and American cultural history." -- Journal of the American Academy of Religion "... a complete and complex portrait of the Christian home." -- The Journal of American History

Book The Queen Anne House

Download or read book The Queen Anne House written by Janet W. Foster and published by . This book was released on 2006-10 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queen Annestyle houses are arguably the most charming and picturesque of all Victorians. In this first-ever book on the American Queen Anne style, noted preservationist Janet W. Foster presents a thoughtful recognition of these houses' place in the history of American architecture. Built across the U.S. during the late 19th century (The Inn at Castle Hill in Newport, RI, is a popular example), features of Queen Anne homes include gabled roofs; corbelled chimneys; vertical windows; large porches; balconies; and cut-stone foundations. Foster explains distinguishing elements of the Queen Anne tradition as she examines 21 noted homes, many of them not open to the public and never before published. With more than 200 magnificent photographs, this homage to a great American art form will delight anyone who appreciates a beautiful home.

Book The Light of the Home

    Book Details:
  • Author : Harvey Green
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 1557287600
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book The Light of the Home written by Harvey Green and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the greatest collection of American Victoriana comes a wonderful evocation of the lives of women 100 years ago. Harvey Green culls from letters and diaries, quotes from magazines, and looks at the clothes, samplers, books, appliances, toys, and dolls of the era to provide a rare portrait of daily life in turn-of-the-century America.

Book Victorian Exterior Decoration

Download or read book Victorian Exterior Decoration written by Roger W. Moss and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 1992-11-15 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Exterior Decoration provides a foolproof system for choosing the colors that will best suit the particular style of any house.

Book Victorian Dream Homes

Download or read book Victorian Dream Homes written by Home Planners, inc and published by Home Planners, LLC. This book was released on 2000 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes sections for each style: Gothic Revival, reminiscent of Britain's Middle Ages; Italianate and Second Empire, reminiscent of rural Italy and France; Victorian; and Victorian-influenced farmhouse.

Book Building an American Identity

Download or read book Building an American Identity written by Linda E. Smeins and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 1999 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work follows the evolution of the pattern book houses and how they represented the notion of home and community in American historical memory. The book also includes illustrations of such communities.

Book Victorian Interior Decoration

Download or read book Victorian Interior Decoration written by Roger W. Moss and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1992-11-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is an authoritative look at the way American Victorian houses were decorated in the 19th century, covering all aspects of interior design: floor coverings, woodwork, window treatments and draperies, walls and wallpaper, and ceilings. 225 pictures and drawings; 16-page color insert.

Book House Styles in America

Download or read book House Styles in America written by James C. Massey and published by Penguin Putnam. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautifully illustrated tour of America's houses begins in 1640 with the early roots of American style -- a combination of European skill and attitude combined with American know-how. This architectural journey continues on through the 18th and 19th centuries, through the Greek Revival, the Americanization of the Gothic Revival, and the early Colonial Revival. The houses of the 20th century are the main attraction as House Styles in America delves into the major movements in the Romantic Revivals of the 1920s and 1930s: English, French, and Spanish. Replete with 200 color photographs, this architectural journey is an essential and beautiful guide for realtors, tourists, and students of architecture.

Book Early Victorian House Designs

Download or read book Early Victorian House Designs written by William H. Ranlett and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This magnificent reproduction of a rare sourcebook, originally designed for prospective homeowners, designers, and builders of the early-Victorian era includes twenty-one designs for private residences. First published more than a century-and-a-half ago (and highly reflective of Victorian eclecticism), the models range from a charming eight-room house in the English style for $1,025 to a spacious French villa, complete with a wraparound veranda, ten bedrooms, and a walk-in china closet—for $10,441! Additional homes include—among others—a cozy, Swiss-styled chalet; a Tudor cottage; splendid residences with Indian and Egyptian architectural accents; and a two-story home with Anglo-Grecian elements. All designs are accompanied by landscaping layouts, floor plans, elevations, and detailed cost estimates for materials and labor. Of value to students of architectural history, home restorers, preservationists and builders, this richly illustrated book will be a welcome addition to the libraries of readers interested in period architecture.

Book America s Painted Ladies

Download or read book America s Painted Ladies written by Elizabeth Pomada and published by Studio. This book was released on 1994 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, the long-awaited companion to Painted Ladies, Daughters of Painted Ladies, and Painted Ladies Revisited is available in paperback. Presents a dazzling orgy of Victoriana inside and out with more than 400 color photographs of Painted Ladies across the country.

Book Victorian America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas J. Schlereth
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 1992-07-15
  • ISBN : 0060921609
  • Pages : 419 pages

Download or read book Victorian America written by Thomas J. Schlereth and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1992-07-15 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A valuable and compelling portrait of the daily life of Americans during the Victorian era--the fourth volume in the Everyday Life in America series

Book Victorian America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Geoffrey Blodgett
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1976
  • ISBN : 9780812277135
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Victorian America written by Geoffrey Blodgett and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors cover such seminal topics as modernization, American intellectuals, the origins of the reform movement, the beginnings of the voluntary hospital, literature, and, ultimately, the attack on Victorianism that took place in the early years of the twentieth-century.

Book Victorian America

Download or read book Victorian America written by Wendell Garrett and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principal photography by Paul Rocheleau. "Knowledgeable descriptions of the houses & their interiors."--Chicago Tribune.