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Author | : Mary Knapp |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Historic buildings |
ISBN | : 9780578048567 |
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An authentic view of the domestic life of privileged New Yorkers in the three decades before the Civil War. It is based on memoirs, diaries, letters, and a preserved antebellum home belonging to the same family for almost 100 years. The daily life and habits of that family and their neighbors are revealed in fascinating detail.
Author | : Anthony Wood |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 603 |
Release | : 2013-10-28 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1136766081 |
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Preserving New York is the largely unknown inspiring story of the origins of New York City’s nationally acclaimed landmarks law. The decades of struggle behind the law, its intellectual origins, the men and women who fought for it, the forces that shaped it, and the buildings lost and saved on the way to its ultimate passage, span from 1913 to 1965. Intended for the interested public as well as students of New York City history, architecture, and preservation itself, over 100 illustrations help reveal a history richer and more complex than the accepted myth that the landmarks law sprang from the wreckage of the great Pennsylvania Station. Images include those by noted historic photographers as well as those from newspaper accounts of the time. Forgotten civic leaders such as Albert S. Bard and lost buildings including the Brokaw Mansions, are unveiled in an extensively researched narrative bringing this essential episode in New York’s history to future generations tasked with protecting the city’s landmarks. For the first time, the story of how New York won the right to protect its treasured buildings, neighborhoods and special places is brought together to enjoy, inform, and inspire all who love New York.
Author | : Mary L Knapp |
Publisher | : Girandole Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2016-03-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780997164626 |
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Miracle on Fourth Street is the story of the preservation of a family home that belonged to one of the early merchants of New York City. Lived in by one family for almost 100 years, the house was preserved as a museum upon the death of the last family member. The book recounts the struggle of the founder of the museum to realize his quixotic vi- sion, the critical intervention of an architect who devoted his life to an authentic struc- tural restoration, and the dedication of a group of women who would not give up their goal of reclaiming the beauty of the original furnishings. It is a story of creative solutions to structural calamities, heartbreaking setbacks, dis- appointing personality conflicts, and the current stewards' triumph over a final brutal assault on the building that quite literally could have brought the house down. Now known as the Merchant's House Museum, the landmarked site affords over 15,000 visitors a year a unique window into mid-nineteenth domestic life of the merchant elite of New York City.
Author | : Kate Ellis |
Publisher | : St Martins Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312205621 |
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A marvelous British police procedural featuring detective and amateur archaeologist Wesley Peterson, a man whose unusual talents will be needed to solve two brutal murders--one of them over 400 years old.
Author | : Nancy Um |
Publisher | : University of Washington Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2011-12-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0295800232 |
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Gaining prominence as a seaport under the Ottomans in the mid-1500s, the city of Mocha on the Red Sea coast of Yemen pulsed with maritime commerce. Its very name became synonymous with Yemen's most important revenue-producing crop -- coffee. After the imams of the Qasimi dynasty ousted the Ottomans in 1635, Mocha's trade turned eastward toward the Indian Ocean and coastal India. Merchants and shipowners from Asian, African, and European shores flocked to the city to trade in Arabian coffee and aromatics, Indian textiles, Asian spices, and silver from the New World. Nancy Um tells how and why Mocha's urban shape and architecture took the forms they did. Mocha was a hub in a great trade network encompassing overseas cities, agricultural hinterlands, and inland market centers. All these connected places, together with the functional demands of commerce in the city, the social stratification of its residents, and the imam's desire for wealth, contributed to Mocha's architectural and urban form. Eventually, in the mid-1800s, the Ottomans regained control over Yemen and abandoned Mocha as their coastal base. Its trade and its population diminished and its magnificent buildings began to crumble, until few traces are left of them today. This book helps bring Mocha to life once again.
Author | : Harriet Evatt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | : |
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Bluet Tucker is intrigued by the mystery of the Old Merchants house and her grandmothers stories about the house only make her more interested.
Author | : Mary L Knapp |
Publisher | : Girandole Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2012-03-26 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780997164619 |
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On East Fourth Street in New York City, there is a Hidden Treasure. Visitors climb the stoop, ring the bell, and magically step into the past. Lived in by one family for 100 years, The Merchant's House Museum is still the way it was in 1850-with its original furniture and personal family possessions, including dresses worn by the eight women in the family. This book tells how members of the merchant elite really lived at the time when New York City became the commercial emporium of the nation.
Author | : Frederik Pohl |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Science fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312906559 |
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Author | : Walter Barrett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Paul R. Merchant |
Publisher | : University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2022-01-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0822988496 |
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Houses, in the Argentine and Chilean films of the early twenty-first century, provide much more than a backdrop to on-screen drama. Nor are they simply refuges from political turmoil or spaces of oppression. Remaking Home argues that domestic spaces are instead the medium through which new, fragile common identities are constructed. The varied documentary and fiction films analyzed here, which include an early work by Oscar winner Sebastián Lelio, use the domestic sphere as a laboratory in which to experiment with narrative, audiovisual techniques, and social configurations. Where previous scholarship has focused on the social fragmentation and political disillusionment visible in contemporary film, Remaking Home argues that in order to understand the political agency of contemporary cinema, it is necessary to move beyond deconstructive critical approaches to Latin American culture. In doing so, it expands the theoretical scope of studies in Latin American cinema by finding new points of contact between the cultural critique of Nelly Richard, the work of Bruno Latour, and theories of new materialism.