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Monument Avenue
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Author : Kathy Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Monument Avenue written by Kathy Edwards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Architecture categories.
Monument Avenue
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Author : Kathy Edwards
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
Monument Avenue written by Kathy Edwards and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Architecture categories.
Richmond S Monument Avenue
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Author : Sarah Shields Driggs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Richmond S Monument Avenue written by Sarah Shields Driggs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Architecture categories.
An illustrated history of Richmond, Virginia's Monument Avenue, showing the most prestigious homes and distinguished architecture, as well as the statues that have often been a source of controversy.
Monument Avenue Memories
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Author : Patricia Cecil Hass
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2013-04-09
Monument Avenue Memories written by Patricia Cecil Hass and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-09 with History categories.
Originally a tribute to Robert E. Lee, Richmond's Monument Avenue grew to its zenith in the early twentieth century as a place of wealth and privilege. Richmond native and child of Monument Avenue Patricia Hass has collected the loving memories of those who shared a childhood among the River City's elite. These pages are filled with recollections of warm afternoons playing in the shadows of the monuments and visits to neighborhood institutions such as Reuben's Deli and the Capitol Theatre. While the children played, their families entertained famous houseguests such as David Niven, Lord and Lady Astor and Winston Churchill. Enter each historic home along the avenue and travel back to a time now lost to memory.
Monument Avenue Hb
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Author : ROSE
language : en
Publisher: Circa
Release Date : 2021-08-09
Monument Avenue Hb written by ROSE and has been published by Circa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-09 with categories.
- A powerful photographic record of the destruction of Virginia's most famous Confederate landmarks - Contains significant commentaries by news and broadcast media - Brian Rose reflects on his own history as a native Virginian and the roles played by his forebears in the Antebellum South If Richmond VA represented the historic heart of the Confederacy, then Monument Avenue was meant to memorialise its soul. The avenue was conceived in the 1870s, when the city elected to build a memorial to General Robert E Lee. It was not until 1890, however, that the massive monument was unveiled. Over the succeeding decades, Lee was joined by statues commemorating other leading Confederate military and political figures - JEB Stuart, Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson and Matthew Fontaine Maury. Almost from the moment they were erected, the Confederate monuments, as symbols of white supremacy, were the focus of controversy and protest. The climax came in the summer of 2020 when Black Lives Matter protesters, outraged by the death of George Floyd, converged on the avenue to vent their fury. On July 10th, Jefferson Davis was dragged from his pedestal. Two days later, Brian Rose packed up his cameras in New York and drove back to his home state to document the last days of the grand boulevard of the Lost Cause. En route, he reflected on his own history and the roles played by his forebears in the Antebellum South.
Monument Avenue A Pictorial
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Author : Judy P. Smith
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-10-13
Monument Avenue A Pictorial written by Judy P. Smith and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-13 with categories.
This pictorial of the Avenue, and other removed monuments, was compiled prior to the 2020 protests and removal efforts. It is my sincere hope that these images preserve the fond memories of the city for those lucky enough to have seen them before the destruction, and gives a glimpse into the beauty that was once Monument Avenue for those that never had the opportunity to visit.
Race And Masculinity In Southern Memory
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Author : Matthew Mace Barbee
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2013-12-05
Race And Masculinity In Southern Memory written by Matthew Mace Barbee and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-05 with History categories.
In Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory Matthew Mace Barbee explores the long history of Richmond, Virginia’s iconic Monument Avenue. As a network of important memorials to Confederate leaders located in the former capitol of the Confederacy, Monument Avenue has long been central to the formation of public memory in Virginia and the U.S. South. It has also been a site of multiple controversies over what, who, and how Richmond’s past should be commemorated. This book traces the evolution of Monument Avenue by analyzing public discussions of its memorials and their meaning. It pays close attention to the origins of Monument Avenue and the first statues erected there, including memorials to Robert E. Lee and Jefferson Davis. Barbee provides a detailed and focused analysis of the evolution of Monument Avenue and public memory in Richmond from 1948 to 1996 through the Civil Rights Movement and the Civil War Centennial, and up to the memorial to Arthur Ashe erected in 1996. An African-American native of Richmond, Ashe was an international tennis champion and advocate for human rights. The story of how a monument to him ended up in a space previously reserved for statues of Confederate leaders helps us understand the ways Richmond has grappled with its past, especially the histories of slavery, Jim Crow, and Civil Rights.
Monument Avenue Commission Report
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Author : Richmond (Va.). Monument Avenue Commission
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018
Monument Avenue Commission Report written by Richmond (Va.). Monument Avenue Commission and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Collective memory and city planning categories.
"In June 2017, Richmond Mayor Levar M. Stoney announced the formation of a commission to determine what to do with Confederate monuments located on historic Monument Avenue. Throughout the United States, many cities were grappling with what to do with Confederate symbols in public spaces... The statues on Monument Avenue have been a source of pride and shame for the City's residents from the time of their installations. As the City has become more ethnically, politically and socioeconomically diverse, tolerance for the monuments' artistic and culture meaning has shifted over time. In essence it is a question of whether or not Monument Avenue reflects the citizenry and its values. It is for these reasons the Commission was formed and tasked to determine how best to reconcile a particular landscape viewed as both sacred and profane. During the course of this work, the Monument Avenue Commission has mined almost two thousand letters, devoted considerable time in public forums and tirelessly researched to ensure this report reflects our diverse public and the best scholarship to craft a solution that is best for Richmond. This report is the first comprehensive review of Monument Avenue commissioned by the City in over 50 years."--Introduction, page 3.
Monument Avenue History And Architecture Classic Reprint
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Author : Kathy Edwards
language : en
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Release Date : 2018-08-25
Monument Avenue History And Architecture Classic Reprint written by Kathy Edwards and has been published by Forgotten Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-25 with categories.
Excerpt from Monument Avenue, History and Architecture Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, is renowned as the South's grandest commemorative precinct dedicated to the heroes of the Lost Cause. Its name derives from the Confederate memorials strung the length of its tree-lined ceremonial axis, a series of traditional public sculptures that range from the bronze-and-granite, beaux-arts monumentality of an equestrian Robert E. Lee to enshrined cannons marking the lines of Richmond's defensive battlements during the long years of siege. But apart from its memorial function, Monument Avenue is also one of the most celebrated examples in the United States of the residential boulevard as public amenity and civic art. The avenue begins at Stuart Circle, one mile west of Capitol Square at the head of Franklin Street, nineteenth-century Richmond's most socially correct address, and extends more than a mile northwest through the city's west end. When its first blocks were planned in 1887, the city ended here, in rolling fields stretching past the state agricultural exhibition grounds into the farmlands of Henrico County. Today J. E. B. Stuart's statue marks the transformation of Franklin Street's shaded intimacy-characteristic of the historic city's old order-into the City Beautiful expanse of a four-lane, divided boulevard fully 140' wide between building lines. The stylistic transition from the genteel Victorian urbanity of the historic city to the avenue's vigorous red-brick modernity, from a comfortable past to Something New, is modulated, even graceful, but the change in spatial scale is profound. Four parallel rows of trees frame the avenue's double carriageways and wide median, contributing as much to dramatic public vistas as to the creation of an exclusive residential environment. On either side, the street wall consists of two and three-story houses and apartment buildings faced in brick or stone, uniformly set back from paved sidewalks 15' wide. At pedestrian level, beneath the foliage, nearly every house proffers the visual and social intervention of a columned porch or balustraded terrace between private property and public promenade. The blurred effect from the thick of traffic whizzing down the thoroughfare is of a unified fabric of white columns and limestone details against a field of Colonial Revival red brick, opening up at more or less regular intervals to the grand ceremonial event of a monument in stone and bronze. Experienced this way, the avenue exhibits a remarkable architectural cohesiveness; only closer attention reveals the variety of design and detail, the singular identity of each individual house, and an apparently provisional standard of what was appropriate to build there. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Race And Masculinity In Southern Memory
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Author : Matthew Mace Barbee
language : en
Publisher: New Studies in Southern Histor
Release Date : 2017-07-15
Race And Masculinity In Southern Memory written by Matthew Mace Barbee and has been published by New Studies in Southern Histor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-07-15 with History categories.
In Race and Masculinity in Southern Memory Matthew Mace Barbee offers an in-depth analysis of Richmond's Monument Avenue from its origins through 1996 and pays special attention to the impact of Civil Rights struggles on Monument Avenue.