Download or read book Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill Maine written by Kevin D. Murphy and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the life of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847), a native of Braintree, Massachusetts, and graduate of Harvard College who moved in his late twenties to Blue Hill, Maine, where he embarked on a multifaceted career as a pioneer minister, farmer, entrepreneur, and artist. Drawing on a vast record of letters, diaries, sermons, drawings, paintings, and buildings, Kevin D. Murphy reconstructs Fisher's story and uses it to explore larger issues of material culture, visual culture, and social history during the early decades of the American republic. Murphy shows how Fisher, as pastor of the Congregational church in Blue Hill from 1796 to 1837, helped spearhead the transformation of a frontier settlement on the eastern shores of the Penobscot Bay into a thriving port community; how he used his skills as an architect, decorative painter, surveyor, and furniture maker not only to support himself and his family, but to promote the economic growth of his village; and how the fluid professional identity that enabled Fisher to prosper on the eastern frontier could only have existed in early America where economic relations were far less rigidly defined than in Europe. Among the most important artifacts of Jonathan Fisher's life is the house he designed and built in Blue Hill. The Jonathan Fisher Memorial, as it is now known, serves as a point of departure for an examination of social, religious, and cultural life in a newly established village at the turn of the nineteenth century. Fisher's house provided a variety of spaces for agricultural and domestic work, teaching, socializing, artmaking, and more. Through the eyes of Jonathan Fisher, we see his family grow and face the challenges of the new century, responding to religious, social, and economic change--sometimes succeeding and sometimes failing. We appreciate how an extraordinarily energetic man was able to capitalize on the wide array of opportunities offered by the frontier to give shape to his personal vision of community.
Download or read book Memoir of Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill Maine written by Rufus George Frederick Candage and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Sketch of the Rev Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill Maine written by Gaylord Crossette Hall and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Sketch of Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill Maine written by Gaylord Crossette Hall and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Biographical Sketch of the Rev Jonathan Fisher written by Rufus George Frederick Candage and published by . This book was released on 18?? with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jonathan Fisher Maine Parson 1768 1847 written by Mary Ellen Chase and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1948 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Fisher was long an estimable citizen of Maine. . .the whole life of this little community is faithfully re-created.
Download or read book Reverend Jonathan Fisher of Blue Hill Maine written by William Reed Deane and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Historical Sketches of Bluehill Maine written by Rufus George Frederick Candage and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jonathan Fisher Sermons and List of Texts written by Jonathan Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten books of manuscript sermons (1830-1832) of Jonathan Fisher, Blue Hill, Me.; together with a list of texts relating to the duties of youth.
Download or read book Jonathan Fisher written by Mary Ellen Chase and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Skyscraper Gothic written by Kevin D. Murphy estate and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all building types, the skyscraper strikes observers as the most modern, in terms not only of height but also of boldness, scale, ingenuity, and daring. As a phenomenon born in late nineteenth-century America, it quickly became emblematic of New York, Chicago, and other major cities. Previous studies of these structures have tended to foreground examples of more evincing modernist approaches, while those with styles reminiscent of the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe were initially disparaged as being antimodernist or were simply unacknowledged. Skyscraper Gothic brings together a group of renowned scholars to address the medievalist skyscraper—from flying buttresses to dizzying spires; from the Chicago Tribune Tower to the Woolworth Building in Manhattan. Drawing on archival evidence and period texts to uncover the ways in which patrons and architects came to understand the Gothic as a historic style, the authors explore what the appearance of Gothic forms on radically new buildings meant urbanistically, architecturally, and socially, not only for those who were involved in the actual conceptualization and execution of the projects but also for the critics and the general public who saw the buildings take shape. Contributors: Lisa Reilly on the Gothic skyscraper ● Kevin Murphy on the Trinity and U.S. Realty Buildings ● Gail Fenske on the Woolworth Building ● Joanna Merwood-Salisbury on the Chicago School ● Katherine M. Solomonson on the Tribune Tower ● Carrie Albee on Atlanta City Hall ● Anke Koeth on the Cathedral of Learning ● Christine G. O'Malley on the American Radiator Building
Download or read book Settlement and Progress of the Town of Bluehill Maine written by Rufus George Frederick Candage and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Misty Mountain written by Rob Mccall and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 10th Anniversary Edition of a classic about life in a small Maine seaside town. Issued for the first time in paperback, this is a beloved chronicle of a year in Blue Hill, Maine. Following in the tradition of Lao-Tse, St. Francis, Rachel Carson, Wendell Berry, and Annie Dillard this volume gathers McCall’s meticulous observations and buoyant commentary about a mountain and its surroundings.
Download or read book Versatile Yankee written by Jonathan Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
