Shows and describes the historical background of fourteen colonial plantations
David King Gleason provides a grand tour of Virginia's distinctive plantation homes. As the architectural historian Calder Loth states in his prefatory note, "Gleason's elegant photographs provide a seductive image of life in 'Old ...
If only the walls could talk, the stories we might hear! That’s what we hope to bring into this book on The Plantations of Virginia. We’ll take the tours and talk to the guides and dig even further if there is more to discover.
From the Tidewater region of its Atlantic Shore to the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia has some of the most architecturally rich, and perhaps the most historically important, homes in America....
Publication of this glorious tribute to Virginia's most beautiful private historic homes coincides with Historic Garden Week, a celebration that each year attracts more than 40,000 visitors to the state's...
In addition, sites with slave quarters are highlighted for their historical importance. This book makes the perfect collectible souvenir for anyone who has traveled to South Carolina and toured these beautiful homes.
(0-48623922-5) VICTORIAN HOUSES: A Treasury of Lesser-Known Examples, Edmund Gillon and Clay Lancaster. (0-486-22966-1) PHILADELPHIA THEATERS: A Pictorial Architectural History, Irvin R. Glazer. (0-486-27833-6) 117 HOUSE DESIGNS OF THE ...
Depicts the mansions and estates of Louisiana's River Road
Including such national landmarks as George Washington’s Mount Vernon and Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello, the book brilliantly illustrates the homes’ exteriors and interiors as well as their gardens and landscaping.
With this book, co-founders of the Outer Banks Lighthouse Society Cheryl Shelton-Roberts and Bruce Roberts provide a well-researched, heavily illustrated, and human-centered history of these towering structures"--
Federal Development in the Tennessee Valley, 1915-1960 David King Gleason. Bubenzer; which served as a Union army headquarters during the Civil War. From Cane River country and north Louisiana, the photographs portray Magnolia, ...