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Southern built : American architecture, regional practice

Title
Southern built : American architecture, regional practice / Catherine W. Bishir.
Author
Bishir, Catherine W.
Publication
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2006.

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Description
viii, 332 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Jacob W. Holt : an American builder -- 2. Good and sufficient language for building -- 3. Black builders in antebellum North Carolina -- 4. Mr. Jones goes to Richmond : a note on the influence of Alexander Parris's Wickham House -- 5. Philadelphia bricks and the New Bern jail -- 6. "Severe survitude to house building" : the construction of Hayes Plantation House, 1814-1817 -- 7. The Montmorenci-Prospect Hill School : a study of high-style vernacular architecture in the Roanoke Valley -- 8. The "unpainted aristocracy" : the beach cottages of old nags head -- 9. "A strong force of ladies" : women, politics, and confederate memorial associations in nineteenth-century Raleigh -- 10. Landmarks of power : building a southern past, 1885-1915 -- 11. Looking at North Carolina's history through architecture -- 12. Yuppies, bubbas, and the politics of culture.
ISBN
  • 081392538X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 0813925398 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780813925387 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780813925394 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005037586
  • 9780813925394
OCLC
  • ocm62755578
  • SCSB-5295437
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries