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Author : Jeffrey Thomas Tilman
Release : 1998
Genre : Architects
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Book Synopsis Arthur Brown, Jr., and the Grand Design by : Jeffrey Thomas Tilman
Download or read book Arthur Brown, Jr., and the Grand Design written by Jeffrey Thomas Tilman. This book was released on 1998. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arthur Brown
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Genre : Architects
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Book Synopsis Arthur Brown, Jr. Papers by : Arthur Brown
Download or read book Arthur Brown, Jr. Papers written by Arthur Brown. This book was released on . Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents the buildings designed by Arthur Brown, Jr. as a member of the firms Bakewell & Brown (1905-1927) and Arthur Brown, Jr. and Associates (1927-1950), through manuscript materials and drawings. Records also reflect the professional career of Arthur Brown, Jr., and, to a lesser extent, the personal life of the architect.
Author : Christopher J. Craig
Release : 2006
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 889/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis San Francisco by : Christopher J. Craig
Download or read book San Francisco written by Christopher J. Craig. This book was released on 2006. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel books and magazines continually rate San Francisco among the ten most desirable destinations in the world--and Elan Penn, along with journalist Christopher J. Craig, successfully captures all its enchantment. Readers will practically hear the cable car bells sound as they examine images of the city’s scenic and man-made treasures, culturally diverse and distinctive neighborhoods, and landmarks. But San Francisco has a compelling story to tell, and it’s all here too: its Mexican origins, the gold rush, the devastating earthquakes, and the stunning rebirth. In addition to such well-known sites as the Golden Gate Bridge and the Presidio, Ghirardelli Square, Chinatown, Fisherman’s Wharf, and Haight-Ashbury, the pictures include such landmarks as City Lights Bookstore; the hotels and mansions of the Golden A≥ memorials, monuments, and religious structures; and oases of education and entertainment.
Author : Julie Cain
Release : 2005
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 321/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Monterey's Hotel Del Monte by : Julie Cain
Download or read book Monterey's Hotel Del Monte written by Julie Cain. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California's "Big Four" railroad tycoons built the Hotel del Monte to be the most elegant seaside resort in the world. Although it boasted 126 landscaped acres when it was constructed in 1880, pampered guests, including presidents and kings, stars and magnates, needed a larger playground. Owners added the 7,000-acre Del Monte Forest and 17-Mile Drive, planned to optimize picturesque spots along the Monterey coast, like Cypress Point and Pebble Beach. Burned to the ground in 1887 and 1924, the Del Monte became more luxurious with each incarnation, at one time incorporating a glass-roofed swimming pavilion, racetrack, lake, tennis courts, and Del Monte Golf Course, now the oldest continuously operating golf course in the West. The third hotel became the Naval Postgraduate School in 1952.
Author : Peter J. Holliday
Release : 2016-05-03
Genre : Art
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Book Synopsis American Arcadia by : Peter J. Holliday
Download or read book American Arcadia written by Peter J. Holliday. This book was released on 2016-05-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vivid and engaging exploration of California's debt to the ancient world Discussing the influence of the classics on America is nothing new; indeed, classical antiquity could be considered second only to Christianity as a force in modeling America's national identity. What has never been explored until now is how, from the beginning, Californians in particular chose to visually and culturally craft their new world using the rhetoric of classical antiquity. Through a lively exploration of material culture, literature, and architecture, American Arcadia offers a tour through California's development as a Mediterranean haven from the late nineteenth century to the present. In its earliest days, California was touted as the last opportunity for alienated Yankees to establish the refined gentleman-farmer culture envisioned by Jefferson and build new cities free of the filth and corruption of those they left back East. Through architecture and landscape design Californians fashioned an Arcadian setting evocative of ancient Greece and Rome.Later, as Arcadia gave way to urban sprawl, entire city plans were drafted to conjure classical antiquity, self-styled villas dotted the hills, and utopian communities began to shape the state's social atmosphere. Art historian Peter J. Holliday traces the classical influence primarily through the evidence of material culture, yet the book emphasizes the stories and people, famous and forgotten, behind the works, such as Florence Yoch, the renowned landscape designer and set designer for Gone with the Wind, and "Sister Aimee" Semple McPherson, the most publicized Christian evangelist of her day, whose sermons filled the Pantheon-like Angelus Temple. Telling stories from the creation of the famed aqueducts that turned the semi-arid landscape to a cornucopia of almonds, alfalfa, and oranges to the birth of the body-sculpting movement, American Arcadia offers readers a new way of seeing our past and ourselves.
