Massachusetts Avenue In The Gilded Age
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Massachusetts Avenue In The Gilded Age
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Author : Mark N. Ozer
language : en
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Release Date : 2010-03
Massachusetts Avenue In The Gilded Age written by Mark N. Ozer and has been published by History Press Library Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03 with Architecture categories.
Massachusetts Avenue In The Gilded Age
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Author : Mark N. Ozer
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2010-03-03
Massachusetts Avenue In The Gilded Age written by Mark N. Ozer and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-03-03 with Photography categories.
Welcome to Millionaire's Row, where the Gilded Age mansions and clubs of high society still exude a faded elegance. It was here that fiery Martha Wadsworth--avid sportswoman and social maven--and wealthy hostess Nellie Patterson mingled with the likes of famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell and miner-turned-millionaire Thomas Walsh. From the Union Station Plaza and Embassy Row to Dupont Circle and the Washington National Cathedral, author Mark N. Ozer examines the extant Beaux-Arts architecture of Massachusetts Avenue mansions and tells the tales of socialites and politicians who lived and played behind their grand façades.
The Opulent Interiors Of The Gilded Age
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Author : Arnold Lewis
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2016-06-23
The Opulent Interiors Of The Gilded Age written by Arnold Lewis and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-23 with Architecture categories.
Best source of information and illustrations for private houses in Eastern cities during the early 1880s. Rare photographs of mansions belonging to Vanderbilt, Morgan, Grant, and many others. Extensive, informative new text.
Aia Guide To The Architecture Of Washington Dc
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Author : G. Martin Moeller Jr.
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2022-09-13
Aia Guide To The Architecture Of Washington Dc written by G. Martin Moeller Jr. and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-13 with Architecture categories.
"The model of what a concise, attractive guidebook should be."—Mid-Atlantic Country This lively and informative guide offers tourists, residents, and architecture aficionados insights into nearly 450 of Washington, DC's, most noteworthy buildings and monuments. Organized into 19 discrete walking tours, plus one general tour of peripheral sites, this thoroughly revised sixth edition features projects ranging from early federal landmarks to twenty-first-century commercial, institutional, and residential buildings. It includes some 80 new entries covering dozens of recently completed buildings, along with some historic structures that may have been overlooked in the past. The guide also has updated maps, and many existing entries have been rewritten to reflect recent renovations, changes to the buildings' contexts, or additional scholarship. G. Martin Moeller, Jr., blends informed, concise descriptions with engaging commentary on each landmark, revealing surprising details of the buildings' history and design. Every entry is accompanied by a photograph and includes the structure's location, its architects and designers, and the corresponding dates of completion. Each entry is keyed to an easy-to-read map at the beginning of the tour. From the imposing monuments of Capitol Hill and the Mall to the pastoral suburban enclaves of Foxhall and Cleveland Park, from small memorials to vast commercial and institutional complexes, this guide shows us a Washington that is at once excitingly fresh and comfortably familiar. The additions and revisions incorporated into the latest edition illuminate broader demographic and physical changes in the city, including the emergence of new neighborhoods and the redevelopment of once-neglected areas.
Before The Gilded Age
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Author : Mark L. Goldstein
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2023-08-01
Before The Gilded Age written by Mark L. Goldstein and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-01 with History categories.
The first modern biography of financial pioneer and philanthropist W. W. Corcoran Before the Gilded Age reveals the extraordinary ways in which W. W. Corcoran shaped the emerging cultural elite and changed the capital and the country both for better and for worse. A complex and controversial character, Corcoran influenced banking and finance, art and American culture, philanthropy, and the nation’s capital. Based on extensive archival research, Before the Gilded Age examines the fascinating life of an entrepreneur ahead of his time. A generation before Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller donated vast sums of money, Corcoran gave away most of his fortune and helped shape American philanthropy. His dedication to landscaping the emerging National Mall predates plans for New York’s Central Park. Other legacies included cofounding the Riggs Bank and founding the Corcoran Gallery of Art, whose collection has been dispersed among other arts organizations in Washington, DC, including the National Gallery of Art. Mark L. Goldstein provides a colorful account of a political chameleon who successfully transcended political party, geography, and ideology to become one of the richest and most influential people in the country even as he navigated such controversies as rumors that he was linked to plots to kill President Lincoln. Before the Gilded Age also offers readers a detailed historical perspective on the development of banking, investing, lobbying, art collecting, and philanthropy.
Aia Guide To The Architecture Of Washington D C
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Author : G. Martin Moeller Jr.
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2012-06-04
Aia Guide To The Architecture Of Washington D C written by G. Martin Moeller Jr. and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-06-04 with Architecture categories.
An updated, lively and informative guide offers tourists, residents and architecture aficionados alike insights into more than 400 of Washington, D.C.'s, most important landmarks, noting each's location, architects, designers and date of completion. Simultaneous. Hardcover available.
On Dupont Circle
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Author : James Srodes
language : en
Publisher: Catapult
Release Date : 2013-07-16
On Dupont Circle written by James Srodes and has been published by Catapult this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-16 with Political Science categories.
Prize–winning author James Srodes offers a vivid and scintillating portrait of the twelve young men and women who, on the eve of World War I, came together in Washington, D.C.'s tony Dupont Circle neighborhood. They were ambitious for personal and social advancement, and what bound them together was a sheer determination to remake America and the rest of the world in their progressive image. At one residence–known ironically as The House of Truth–lived Felix Frankfuter, a future Supreme Court Justice, and Walter Lippman, later the most important political writer of the twentieth century. Another house served as the base for three siblings: John Foster Dulles, future Secretary of State, Allen Dulles, one of the founders of the CIA, and sister Eleanor Lansing Dulles, one of the most important economists of the age. Meanwhile, nearby lived young Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, who even then were rising political stars, William Bullitt, a charming and unscrupulous writer and future ambassador, and Herbert Hoover, already the most famous American in the world. The group mixed cocktails, foreign policy, and bed–mates as they set out to remake the world. For the next twenty years they pursued increasingly important careers as their private lives become ever more entangled. By the end of this story, on the eve of WWII, the group came together again for a second chance at history–this time the result was the United Nations.
Sixteenth Street Nw
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Author : John DeFerrari
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-28
Sixteenth Street Nw written by John DeFerrari and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-28 with History categories.
DeFerrari and Sefton have created a highly illustrated architectural “biography” of one of DC’s most important boulevards. From the front door of the White House, this north-south artery runs through the middle of the DC and extends just past its border with Maryland, making it as central to the cityscape as it is to DC’s history and culture.
Up From Slavery An Unfinished Journey
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Author : Archie Morris III D.P.A.
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2019-03-21
Up From Slavery An Unfinished Journey written by Archie Morris III D.P.A. and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-21 with Fiction categories.
For a period of eighty-five years, the M Street / Dunbar High School was an academically elite, all-black public high school in Washington DC. As far back as 1899, its students came in first in citywide tests given in both black and white schools. Over this eighty-five-year span, approximately 80 percent of M Street / Dunbar’s graduates went on to college even though most Americans, white or black, did not attend college at all. Faculty and students were mutually respectful to one another, and disruptions in the classroom were not tolerated. Yet in this era of best practices, this public high school has received virtually no attention in the literature or in policy considerations for inner-city education. The Dunbar High School today, with its new building and athletic facilities, is just another ghetto school with abysmal standards and low test score results despite the District of Columbia’s record of having some of the country’s highest levels of money spent per pupil. The purpose of this study is to explore the history of a high school that was successful in teaching black children from low-income families and to determine if the learning model employed there could be successful in a modern inner-city public education environment.
Prohibition In Washington D C
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Author : Garrett Peck
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2011-03-25
Prohibition In Washington D C written by Garrett Peck and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-25 with History categories.
Even in the city where the Eighteenth Amendment was passed, the party went on—a history of bootleggers and speakeasies in the nation’s capital. Despite the passage of the Volstead Act, it was estimated that in 1929, bootleggers brought twenty-two thousand gallons of whiskey, moonshine, and other spirits into Washington, DC’s speakeasies—every week. The bathtub gin-swilling capital dwellers made the most of Prohibition. This rollicking history brims with stories of vice—topped off with vintage cocktail recipes and garnished with a walking tour of former speakeasies. Discover an underground city ruled not by organized crime but by amateur bootleggers, where publicly teetotaling congressmen could get a stiff drink behind House office doors and the African American community of U Street was humming with a new sound called jazz. Includes photos!