Historic Preservation - General
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Beyond Architecture: The New New York
$37.50 Add to cartA volume of new essays by a range of contributors–architectural critics, city planners, historians, scholars, journalists, and more–to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the passage of the New … [more below]
- Author: Diamonstein-Spielvogel, Barbaralee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1681379104
- Language: English
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House in Fez: Building a Life in the Ancient Heart of Morocco
$18.99 Add to cartThe Medina — the Old City — of Fez is the best-preserved, medieval walled city in the world. Inside this vibrant Moroccan community, internet cafes and mobile phones coexist with a maze of donkey-tr… [more below]
- Author: Clarke, Suzanna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 11 2008
- ISBN10: 1416578935
- Language: English
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The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos: Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World Heritage
$24.95 Read moreRising in quiet grandeur from the earth in an astoundingly engineered arrangement that ancient peoples mapped to the movements of the moon, Ohio’s Newark Earthworks form the largest geometric earthen … [more below]
- Series: Trillium Books
- Author: Weiser, M. Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258700
- Language: English
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The Road to Blair Mountain: Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal
$27.99 Add to cart“Keeney delivers a riveting and propulsive story about a nine-year battle to save sacred ground that was the site of the largest labor uprising in American history. . . . He unveils a powerful playboo… [more below]
- Author: Keeney, Charles B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: January 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1949199851
- Language: English
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Winfield-Living in the Shadow of the Woolworths
$21.95 Add to cartMonica Randall grew up on the Gold Coast of Long Island and was fascinated by the massive estates and their tantalizing stories. Millionaire F. W. Woolworth built Winfield, the grandest of its manors
- Author: Randall, Monica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: November 19 2022
- ISBN10: 1899694072
- Language: English
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Kominka: The Beauty and Wisdom of Japanese Traditional House
$28.95 Add to cartFor centuries, the traditional folk houses known as ” kominka” have provided shelter and embodied the values of the agrarian, merchant and samurai society of pre-modern Japan. Their huge sturdy posts … [more below]
- Author: Hasegawa, Kazuo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 411
- Publish Date: July 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1940842700
- Language: English
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Inside Yucatán: Hidden Mérida and Beyond
$75.00 Add to cartExploring forgotten regions of Mexico’s Yucat?n Peninsula, Susana Ordov?s and photographer Guido Taroni uncover the faded splendor of both neglected and restored homes.
Susana Ordov?s’s Inside Yucat?- Author: Ordovás, Susana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 086565445X
- Language: English
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Buying Time for Heritage: How to Save an Endangered Historic Property
$37.00 Add to cartWhat does it take to save endangered historic properties? This practical guide builds on decades of historic preservation experience to provide readers with legal, financial, political, and technical … [more below]
- Author: Howard, J. Myrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1469677008
- Language: English
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Lost in America: Photographing the Last Days of Our Architectural Treasures
$40.00 Add to cartLost in America documents the life and death of America’s architectural and historic treasures. The book is based on a remarkable archive created by the Historic American Building Survey (HABS), a Wor
- Author: Cahan, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 1733869050
- Language: English
