Landmarks
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The Gramercy Park Hotel: A New York Icon
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the Roaring Twenties to a Rock ‘N’ Roll Landmark
Since it opened in 1925, the Gramercy Park Hotel has always been one of New York’s premiere cultural hotspots. Early in its history it served as th
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Weissberg, Max
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1467158844
- Language: English
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The Great Serpent Mound: An Ancient Ohio Mystery
$24.99 Add to cartAuthor Jeffrey Alan John explores the history, theories and fundamental Serpent Mound questions: What culture made it? Why? And when? Thousands of years ago, people in what would become southern Ohio
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: John, Jeffrey Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1467159700
- Language: English
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The Super Highway in Upstate South Carolina
$24.99 Read moreA Highway Runs Through It
When U.S. Highway 29 between Greenville and Spartanburg was completed in 1946, it became the first modern super highway in the Upstate region. Known by many as the Super Highw
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Withrow, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158232
- Language: English
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Old Town Plaza in Albuquerque
$24.99 Read moreWitness the evolution of Albuquerque from the perspective of its birthplace, the historic Old Town Plaza.
Explore the rich architectural heritage and traditions that frame the bustling tourist attracti
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Montoya, Debra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155098
- Language: English
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Colonial Taverns of New Jersey: Libations, Liberty & Revolution
$23.99 Read moreEat, Drink, Be Merry and Join the Revolution New Jersey was the “Crossroads of the American Revolution,” and its colonial taverns were havens for Patriots and Loyalists alike to debate the political q… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Gabriele, Michael C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1467148962
- Language: English
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Philadelphia’s Strawbridge & Clothier: From Our Family to Yours
$23.99 Read moreBecome Part of the Store Family
From its flagship store on Market Street in the heart of Philadelphia, Strawbridge & Clothier strove to meet the needs of its customers for over a century. Built on a f
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Butterworth, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1467150266
- Language: English
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Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch: The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse
$23.99 Read moreThanks to the classic Dolly Parton film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and ZZ Top’s ode “La Grange,” many people think they know the story of the infamous Chicken Ranch. The reality is more compl… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Blaschke, Jayme Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153931
- Language: English
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The Bootleg Homes of Frank Lloyd Wright: His Clandestine Work Revealed
$23.99 Read moreUncover the secret Chicago laboratory of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Prairie Style. Before Frank Lloyd Wright officially launched America’s most famous architectural career, he was designing the building blo… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Hartnett, Bob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1467154067
- Language: English
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Big Basin Redwood Forest: California’s Oldest State Park
$41.99 Add to cartThe epic saga of Big Basin began in the late 1800s, when the surrounding communities saw their once inexhaustible redwood forests vanishing. Expanding railways demanded timber as they crisscrossed the… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Bliss, Traci
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: September 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1540249646
- Language: English
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A History of Rock Creek Park: Wilderness & Washington, D.C.
$23.99 Add to cartJoin National Park ranger, author and historian Scott Einberger as he traces the human, natural and urban history of Rock Creek Park, the largest park in the nation’s capital.
Washington, D. C. ‘s Rock
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Einberger, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1626195749
- Language: English
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Denholms: The Story of Worcester’s Premier Department Store
$21.99 Add to cartWhen William Denholm and William McKay teamed up in 1870 to form a dry goods store in the factory town of Worcester, Massachusetts, they could not have imagined the 103-year legacy that would make the… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Sawyer, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 16 2011
- ISBN10: 1609493958
- Language: English
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The Golden Age of Baltimore Theater: A History from Shakespeare to Vaudeville
$24.99 Read moreThe story of Charm City on stage. Baltimore’s dynamic theatrical tradition had hard-scrabble beginnings in the eighteenth century. The popularity of the theater only grew, continuing to the vaudeville… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Mitchell, Charlie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1467154482
- Language: English
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Cahokia Mounds: America’s First City
$23.99 Add to cartAbout one thousand years ago, a phenomenon occurred in a fertile tract of Mississippi River flood plain known today as the “American Bottom.” This phenomenon came to be called Cahokia Mounds, America’
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Iseminger, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 03 2010
- ISBN10: 1596297344
- Language: English
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Gainesville Punk: A History of Bands & Music
$21.99 Add to cartKnown for The Fest, Less Than Jake and Hot Water Music, Gainesville became a creative hub in the 1980s and ’90s for many of punk rock’s greats.
Whether playing at the Hardback or wild house parties, ea
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Walker, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 07 2016
- ISBN10: 1626197679
- Language: English
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Lost Chicago Department Stores
$21.99 Read moreWithin thirty years of the Great Chicago Fire, the revitalized city was boasting some of America’s grandest department stores. The retail corridor on State Street was a crowded canyon of innovation an… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Goddard, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1467147710
- Language: English
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Union Station in Denver
$21.99 Add to cartOn June 1, 1881, Denver’s Union Station opened as the largest structure west of the Mississippi. The station welcomed people from all walks of life, from pioneers and miners to U.S. presidents and Buf… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Beck, Rhonda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1626199647
- Language: English
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Mississippi Juke Joint Confidential: House Parties, Hustlers and the Blues Life
$21.99 Add to cartWhat’s the real meaning of juke joint? Explore these special places for a special brand of the blues.
Juke joint – two words often used, often abused. They convey an inherent promise of something real,
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Stolle, Roger
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 05 2019
- ISBN10: 1467141577
- Language: English
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Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch: The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse
$24.99 Add to cartThanks to the classic Dolly Parton film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and ZZ Top’s ode La Grange, many people think they know the story of the infamous Chicken Ranch. The reality is more complex… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Blaschke, Jayme Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135631
- Language: English
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Marshall Field’s: The Store That Helped Build Chicago
$23.99 Add to cartAnyone who has waited in a Christmas line for the Walnut Room’s Great Tree can attest that Chicago’s loyalty to Marshall Field’s is fierce.
Dayton-Hudson even had to take out advertising around town to
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Soucek, Gayle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 10 2010
- ISBN10: 1596298545
- Language: English
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Art Deco Tulsa
$21.99 Add to cartTransformed from a cattle depot into the Oil Capital of the World, Tulsa emerged as an iconic Jazz Age metropolis. The Magic City attracted some of the nation’s most talented architects, including Bru… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Wallis, Suzanne Fitzgerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1625859899
- Language: English
