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Philadelphia Preserved - Catalog of the Historic American Buildings Survey R Webster

Philadelphia Preserved - Catalog of the Historic American Buildings Survey By R Webster

Philadelphia Preserved - Catalog of the Historic American Buildings Survey by R Webster


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Contains information on buildings lost through fire or demolition, or altered to restore the original architecture. The book contains more than 100 drawings, photos, and maps from the Historic American Buildings Survey collection.

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Philadelphia Preserved - Catalog of the Historic American Buildings Survey Summary

Philadelphia Preserved - Catalog of the Historic American Buildings Survey by R Webster

Today, William Penn's town is the living history of 300 years of architecture told in outstanding examples of Colonial, Federal, Italianate, and other early styles, and in the twentieth-century innovations of LeCorbusier, Kahn, and Wright. This new paperback edition updates the Historic American Buildings Survey collection, with new information on buildings lost through fire or demolition, or altered to restore the original architecture. Organized by the traditional sections of the city, the entries include extensive physical descriptions of the structures, analyses of architecturally notable features, dates of construction, alteration, or demolition, and a new street index. The book contains more than 100 drawings, photos, and maps from the HABS collection. Author note: Richard J. Webster is Professor of History and American Studies at West Chester State College, West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia Preserved - Catalog of the Historic American Buildings Survey Reviews

As a key to Philadelphia's historic environment, this will become a standard work. oMuseum News [F]rom Colonial, Federal and Italiante styles to the 20th-century innovation of LeCorbusier, Kahn, and Wright. oPhiladelphia Inquirer A cause for celebration. The editor's introductions set each part of the city into understandable units. The book is a clearly told story of success and failure in historic preservation. oJ.E. Mooney, Director, Historical Society of Pennsylvania A lovely portrait of Philadelphia's rich history of buildings. oThe Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

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CIN0877222150G
9780877222156
0877222150
Philadelphia Preserved - Catalog of the Historic American Buildings Survey by R Webster
Used - Good
Paperback
Temple University Press,U.S.
19811015
512
N/A
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