James Riely Gordon Papers
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James Riely Gordon Papers
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Author : James Riely Gordon
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1890
James Riely Gordon Papers written by James Riely Gordon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1890 with Architecture categories.
Contains 6,500 drawings, 13 linear feet of architectural records, and 1,600 photographs representing more han 300 buildings and documenting both the Texas and New York phases of Gordon's career (1890-1937). Work of one of his later partners, Alfred Zucker, is represented here by architectural drawings for buildings in New York constructed during the 1890s.
James Riely Gordon
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Author : Chris Meister
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
James Riely Gordon written by Chris Meister and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Architecture categories.
"Describes, analyzes, and contextualizes the courthouses and other public buildings of James Riely Gordon, an architect working in Texas in the late nineteenth century who went on to establish his reputation at a national level. Includes photographs and illustrations"--Provided by publisher.
Dos Passos Mss
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Author : John Dos Passos
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1903
Dos Passos Mss written by John Dos Passos and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1903 with Authors, American categories.
Consists of letters and college writings of author John Dos Passos, 1896-1970, and legal files and correspondence of his family in connection with the estate of his father John Randolph Dos Passos, 1844-1917. The letters from John Dos Passos are primarily to his aunt, Mary Lucy (Dos Passos) Gordon, (Mrs. James Riely Gordon), although a few others are present as well. The writings are papers for a Harvard English class, 1912-1913. Also included is an unpublished novel written as a class project, "Afterglow," and the original autograph manuscript of his first published work "Against American Literature" (New Republic, Oct. 14, 1916). The legal files are chiefly those of James Riely Gordon and his wife, Mary Lucy (Dos Passos) Gordon, concerned with the estate and law suits by and against it, of John Dos Passos, Sr.
The Skyscraper And The City
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Author : Gail Fenske
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2008-08
The Skyscraper And The City written by Gail Fenske and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08 with Architecture categories.
Once the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Building is noted for its striking but incongruous synthesis of Beaux-Arts architecture, fanciful Gothic ornamentation, and audacious steel-framed engineering. Here, in the first history of this great urban landmark, Gail Fenske argues that its design serves as a compelling lens through which to view the distinctive urban culture of Progressive-era New York. Fenske shows here that the building’s multiplicity of meanings reflected the cultural contradictions that defined New York City’s modernity. For Frank Woolworth—founder of the famous five-and-dime store chain—the building served as a towering trademark, for advocates of the City Beautiful movement it suggested a majestic hotel de ville, for technological enthusiasts it represented the boldest of experiments in vertical construction, and for tenants it provided an evocative setting for high-style consumption. Tourists, meanwhile, experienced a spectacular sightseeing destination and avant-garde artists discovered a twentieth-century future. In emphasizing this faceted significance, Fenske illuminates the process of conceiving, financing, and constructing skyscrapers as well as the mass phenomena of consumerism, marketing, news media, and urban spectatorship that surround them. As the representative example of the skyscraper as a “cathedral of commerce,” the Woolworth Building remains a commanding presence in the skyline of lower Manhattan, and the generously illustrated Skyscraper and the City is a worthy testament to its importance in American culture.
James Gordon Hislop Papers
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Author : James Gordon Hislop
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1943
James Gordon Hislop Papers written by James Gordon Hislop and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1943 with Physicians categories.
Includes correspondence, diaries, notes, publications, reports.
Southwestern Historical Quarterly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Southwestern Historical Quarterly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Southwest, New categories.
Inside Texas
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Author : Cynthia A. Brandimarte
language : en
Publisher: TCU Press
Release Date : 1991
Inside Texas written by Cynthia A. Brandimarte and has been published by TCU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Architecture categories.
Study of Texas homes between 1878 and 1920, documenting the way Texans lived.
Gamble In The Devil S Chalk
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Author : Caleb Pirtle, III
language : en
Publisher: eBookIt.com
Release Date : 2013-05-22
Gamble In The Devil S Chalk written by Caleb Pirtle, III and has been published by eBookIt.com this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-22 with History categories.
In the mid 1970s, a band of men with little expertise in the oilfield defied the hard ground of Giddings, Texas, to search for oil in a barren, poverty-stricken land that was littered with dry holes, shattered hopes, and empty pockets. Max Williams, the former hot-shot basketball player at SMU, and Irv Deal had been in high-dollar real estate until the real estate market collapsed. Both were facing the wrath of hard times. Pat Holloway was a lawyer who operated drilling funds but had never tested the ill-fated Austin Chalk. He drilled the most and earned the most but lost it all in the shady confines of a Dallas courtroom. Jimmy Luecke was a highway patrolman who stopped Holloway for speeding one night and promised not to take him to jail if the lawyer/oilman would agree to drill on his family's land. Bill Shuford was right out of college and more interested in finding the next beer joint than his next job. Jim Dobos was a constable who used his badge to lease land, struck it rich, and was found with a gunshot in his head. Was it murder or suicide? Clayton Williams was the only big-time oilman in the bunch, but in the beginning, he made the mistake of employing the wrong geologist. Only those who used the geologic genius of Ray Holifield found oil. Holifield had cracked the code of the chalk. Gamble in the Devil's Chalk is the true story of their fights, their feuds, their trials, their tribulations, and their triumphs as they discovered the second largest oilfield in the United States during the past half century. Once they came, Giddings would never be the same again.
The Western Historical Quarterly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Western Historical Quarterly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Frontier and Pioneer Life categories.
Saving San Antonio
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Author : Lewis F. Fisher
language : en
Publisher: Trinity University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-22
Saving San Antonio written by Lewis F. Fisher and has been published by Trinity University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-22 with History categories.
Few American cities enjoy the likes of San Antonio's visual links with its dramatic past. The Alamo and four other Spanish missions, recently marked as a UNESCO World Heritage site, are the most obvious but there are a host of landmarks and folkways that have survived over the course of nearly three centuries that still lend San Antonio an "odd and antiquated foreignness." Adding to the charm of the nation's seventh largest city is the San Antonio River, saved to become a winding linear park through the heart of downtown and beyond and a world model for sensitive urban development. San Antonio's heritage has not been preserved by accident. The wrecking balls and headlong development that accompanied progress in nineteenth-century San Antonio roused an indigenous historic preservation movement—the first west of the Mississippi River to become effective. Its thrust has increased since the mid-1920s with the pioneering work of the San Antonio Conservation Society. In Saving San Antonio, Texas historian Lewis Fisher peels back the myths surrounding more than a century of preservation triumphs and failures to reveal a lively mosaic that portrays the saving of San Antonio's cultural and architectural soul. The process, entertaining in the telling, has reverberated throughout the United States and provided significant lessons for the built environments and economies of cities everywhere.