Birth Of A Virginia Plantation House
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Birth Of A Virginia Plantation House
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Author : Peter Hodson
language : en
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Birth Of A Virginia Plantation House written by Peter Hodson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Architecture, Domestic categories.
Birth Of A Virginia Plantation House
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Author : Peter Hodson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Birth Of A Virginia Plantation House written by Peter Hodson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Bremo (Va. : Estate) categories.
A Virginia Family And Its Plantation Houses
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Author : Elizabeth Coles Langhorne
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 1987
A Virginia Family And Its Plantation Houses written by Elizabeth Coles Langhorne and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Architecture categories.
"In this study we shall treat in detail some twelve houses, built and occupied by four generations of one Virginia family [Coles]." - P. 1.
Virginia Plantation Homes
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Author : David King Gleason
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1989-09-01
Virginia Plantation Homes written by David King Gleason and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-09-01 with Photography categories.
David King Gleason provides a grand tour of Virginia’s distinctive plantation homes. As the architectural historian Calder Loth states in his prefatory note, “Gleason’s elegant photographs provide a seductive image of life in ‘Old Virginia.’ He presents one inviting house after another, complete with handsome interiors, and spacious grounds dotted with boxwoods and venerable trees.” Unlike those in the Deep South, most of Virginia’s plantation homes were built before the antebellum period and mainly reflect colonial, English Georgian, and Jeffersonian styles of architecture. Gleason has photographed the homes in all seasons, framing some in the pink blossoms of springtime dogwoods, showing others surrounded by the golden hues of autumn, and presenting still others blanketed in January snows. Many of the photographs provide aerial perspectives that encompass not only the homes themselves but outbuildings and dependencies, great lawns and terraced gardens. The book begins with homes in the Tidewater region, where Bacon’s Castle, built in 1665 on the south bank of the James River, still stands. It is the oldest surviving house not only in Virginia but in all of English-settled North America. Other houses from the Tidewater region include Westover, considered one of the most beautiful Georgian residences in the United States; Brandon, at one time the home of Benjamin Harrison; Appomattox Manor, where Ulysses S. Grant headquartered for a period during the Civil War; and Carter’s Grove, near Williamsburg. In northern Virginia and the Shenandoah valley are Gunston Hall, near Alexandria; Woodlawn, in Fairfax County; Washington’s Mount Vernon; and Melrose, a castellated manor inspired by the romantic literature of Sir Walter Scott. In the Piedmont, Gleason photographed such houses as Ash Lawn, the home of James Monroe; Edgemont, an exquisitely proportioned house showing Thomas Jefferson’s influence; and Estouteville, whose great center hall opens onto identical Tuscan porticos framing magnificent views of the Virginia countryside. Gleason’s photographs of a mist-shrouded Monticello are among the most beautiful in the book. In all, Gleason has photographed more than eighty of Virginia’s finest plantation homes. Extensive captions provide concise histories of each house, including its original builder and subsequent owners, and its occupants, either friendly or hostile, during the Revolutionary or Civil wars.
A Virginia Family And Its Plantation Houses
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Author : Elizabeth Coles Langhorne
language : en
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Flowerdew Hundred
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Author : James Deetz
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 1995
Flowerdew Hundred written by James Deetz and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Architecture categories.
This is the story of Flowerdew Hundred, the 1,000-acre plantation that Sir George Yeardley, Virginia's first governor, established on the James River between Richmond and Williamsburg, Virginia.
Plantations Of Virginia
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Author : Charlene C. Giannetti
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2017-02-01
Plantations Of Virginia written by Charlene C. Giannetti and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-01 with History categories.
Southern plantations are an endless source of fascination. That’s no surprise since these palatial homes are rich in history, representing a pivotal time in U.S. history that truly is “gone with the wind.” With the Civil War literally exploding all around, many of these homes were occupied either by Confederate or Union troops. Nowhere else in the south were plantations so affected by the nation’s bloodiest war than in Virginia. At times, families fled, leaving behind slaves to manage the property. There are still more than 60 plantations in Virginia today, most of them open to the public. Some have been restored, others undergoing that process. If only the walls could talk, the stories we might hear! That’s what we hope to bring into this book on The Plantations of Virginia. We’ll take the tours and talk to the guides and dig even further if there is more to discover. We hope that travelers will be enlightened before they travel to Virginia, their visits will thus be enriched, and that residents will equally love exploring this deep history of Virginia. Accompanying the text will be photographs, taken by one of the authors, showing, in all their splendor, the exteriors of these plantations, as well as areas of interest inside the buildings.
Plantation Homes Of The James River
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Author : Bruce Roberts
language : en
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Release Date : 1990
Plantation Homes Of The James River written by Bruce Roberts and has been published by UNC Press Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Photography categories.
Shows and describes the historical background of fourteen colonial plantations
Plantation Reminiscences
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Author : Letitia M. Burwell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1878
Plantation Reminiscences written by Letitia M. Burwell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1878 with Plantation life categories.
The Big House After Slavery
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Author : Amy Feely Morsman
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2010-10-13
The Big House After Slavery written by Amy Feely Morsman and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-13 with History categories.
The Big House after Slavery examines the economic, social, and political challenges that Virginia planter families faced following Confederate defeat and emancipation. Amy Feely Morsman addresses how men and women of the planter class responded to postwar problems and how their adaptations to life without slavery altered their marital relationships and their conceptions of gender roles. Unable to afford many servants in the new free labor economy, many of Virginia’s former masters put themselves to work on their plantations, and their wives had to expand their responsibilities as well, taking on the tasks of cooking and cleaning in addition to working in the garden, the henhouse, and the dairy. Laboring in these ways and struggling to maintain their standing as elites contributed to an identity crisis among Virginia planters. It also led them to practice mutuality within their own marriages and to reconsider what proper Southern womanhood and manhood meant in the new postwar order. Using newspapers, periodicals, organization records, and numerous letters from Virginia plantation families, Morsman captures how these frustrated elites made sense of embarrassing postwar changes, in the private but also in the public spheres they inhabited. Morsman suggests that the planters’ adaptations may have been carried forward by their adult children away from the crumbling plantations and into the urban households of the New South.