Historic Preservation
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San Antonio and Its Missions: Three Centuries of History, Memory, and Heritage
$42.50 Add to cartCharacterizing San Antonio’s five Spanish colonial-era missions as “sites of memory,” author and historian Joel Daniel Kitchens explores how and why Spain built the missions, what happened to the mis
- Series: Vistas, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-San Antonio
- Author: Kitchens, Joel Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1648433405
- Language: English
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Preserving with Purpose: Reimagining Buildings for Community Benefit
$40.00 Add to cartWhile prominent buildings like Notre Dame in Paris rise from the ashes, historic buildings in disinvested communities are lost at an alarming rate. The resulting holes in the fabric of the community a… [more below]
- Author: Hetletvedt, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1642833487
- Language: English
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Venice: The Art of Living
$19.98 Add to cartThis beautiful, aspirational book offers a seductive vision of living and entertaining in the most elegantly appointed private interiors of Venice.
For centuries, millions have succumbed to the magic … [more below]- Author: Fasoli, Lydia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0789346109
- Language: English
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Historic Homes of the Old West Side: The neighborhood at the heart of the planned city of Longview, Washington
$37.99 Add to cartExplore the historic homes of Longview’s Old West Side, a testament to early 20th-century American architecture.
This book celebrates the historic homes of the residential neighborhood in Longview, Wa
- Author: Baxter a. I. a. Emeritus, Fred J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 70
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 9798318812583
- Language: English
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Civil Sights: Sweet Auburn, a Journey Through Atlanta’s National Treasure
$29.95 Add to cartOnce the wealthiest Black neighborhood in the world, the Sweet Auburn Historic District in Atlanta, Georgia, now occupies a distinct place, both historically and geographically. It is at once the glob
- Author: Kansas, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0820367702
- Language: English
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A Short History of Greenville
$24.99 Add to cartA concise and engaging history that traces Greenville’s development from backcountry settlement to one of America’s best small cities
Today, Greenville, South Carolina, is regularly included on lists o
- Author: Bainbridge, Judith T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1643364677
- Language: English
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Beyond Architecture: The New New York
$37.50 Read moreA 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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Lost Plantations of the South
$40.00 Add to cartThe great majority of the South’s plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diar… [more below]
- Author: Matrana, Marc R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 11 2009
- ISBN10: 1578069424
- Language: English
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The Fertile Earth and the Ordered Cosmos: Reflections on the Newark Earthworks and World Heritage
$24.95 Add to cartRising 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 Painted House of Maud Lewis: Conserving a Folk Art Treasure
$22.95 Read moreFor many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia’s best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of
- Author: Hamilton, Laurie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 118
- Publish Date: October 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0864923341
- Language: English
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Kazuo Shinohara: The Umbrella House Project
$49.95 Read moreThe story of Shinohara’s exquisite modernist gem, a residential home drawing on Japanese vernacular and religious architecture
Built in Tokyo in 1961, the Umbrella House is the smallest residential hom
- Author: Shinohara, Kazuo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 3945852552
- Language: English
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The Art of the Stonemason
$24.95 Add to cartDrawing on five generations of family tradition as stonemasons in his Native Scotland, Ian Cramb created this masterful work to pass on his knowledge and experience to craftsmen who wish to learn the
- Author: Cramb, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0811739805
- Language: English
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Abandoned Western Pennsylvania: Behind the Boards
$24.99 Read moreOnce considered the powerhouse of American industry, much of Western Pennsylvania now lies in ruins. The collapse of the steel industry and deindustrialization led to a decline in population and an in… [more below]
- Series: America Through Time
- Author: Miller, Kari
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1634994841
- Language: English
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The New Spruce Forge Manual of Locksmithing: A Blacksmith’s Guide to Simple Lock Mechanisms
$44.95 Add to cartRunner-Up for the best HOBBY and CRAFT BOOK 2023, IBPA Book Awards.
The New Spruce Forge Manual of Locksmithing: A Blacksmith’s Guide to Simple Lock Mechanisms is a totally revised and expanded version
- Author: Frechette, Denis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 07 2022
- ISBN10: 173332500X
- Language: English
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Old Santa Fe Today: A History & Tour of Historic Properties
$40.00 Read moreOld Santa Fe Today is an engaging read about Santa Fe’s architecture, history, and important figures through its culturally significant properties, among them churches, government buildings, and homes… [more below]
- Author: Bellmore, Audra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 089013670X
- Language: English
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Lady on the Hill: How Biltmore Estate Became an American Icon
$32.00 Add to cart“What William Cecil has accomplished at Biltmore Estate is one of the great preservation success stories of all time. He has set a high standard for what all historic house museums strive for: magnifi
- Author: Covington, Howard E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0471758183
- Language: English
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Historic Buildings of Waco, Texas
$45.00 Read moreCommunity life takes place in the spaces where business is transacted, where worship and fellowship take place, where goods and services are purchased, where students are educated, and where working a… [more below]
- Author: Hafertepe, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 02 2023
- ISBN10: 164843083X
- Language: English
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Amongst the Ruins: Why Civilizations Collapse and Communities Disappear
$35.00 Read moreAmongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions. Some of these are now sealed u… [more below]
- Author: Darlington, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 030025928X
- Language: English
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Old House Handbook: A Practical Guide to Care and Repair, 2nd Edition
$50.00 Read moreThis fully revised and updated book is the authoritative guide on how to look after your old house – whether it is a timber-framed medieval cottage, an eighteenth-century town house or a Victorian or … [more below]
- Author: Hunt, Roger
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0711281475
- Language: English
