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Publisher
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
This fully updated and beautifully redesigned handbook is the essential guide to the encyclopaedic collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Divided into four sections - Asia, Europe, the Americas, and Contemporary - the handbook features more than five hundred masterpieces from the museum's world-renowned holdings, each handsomely illustrated in colour and accompanied by a brief text written by the museum's curators. Each section integrates...
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Mount Vernon, despite its importance as the estate of George Washington, is subject to the same threats of time as any property and has required considerable resources and organization to endure as a historic site and house. This book provides a window into the broad scope of preservation work undertaken at Mount Vernon over the course of more than 160 years and places this work within the context of America's regional and national preservation efforts....
Author
Series
Alexandria papers in urban archaeology. Museum volume no. 1
Publisher
Alexandria Urban Archaeology Program
Pub. Date
c1983
Language
English
940) Houses without names: architectural nomenclature and the classification of America's common houses
Author
Publisher
University of Tennessee Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In countless neighborhoods across America, the streets are lined with houses representing no established architectural style. Many of the 80 million homes in the United States today have only loose-fitting, general names like ranch, duplex, bungalow, and flat. Most, however, cannot even be identified by these common names, much less by an architectural type such as Colonial, Italianate, or Queen Anne. The few regionally recognized vernacular terms--...
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