A Virginia Family And Its Plantation Houses

Author : Elizabeth Coles Langhorne
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813911274
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Virginia Family and Its Plantation Houses written by Elizabeth Coles Langhorne and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this study we shall treat in detail some twelve houses, built and occupied by four generations of one Virginia family [Coles]." - P. 1.

Author : Elizabeth Coles Langhorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780608219745
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Virginia Family and Its Plantation Houses written by Elizabeth Coles Langhorne and published by . This book was released on with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charlene C. Giannetti
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493024809
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plantations of Virginia written by Charlene C. Giannetti and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Joseph Frazer Smith
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486278483
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plantation Houses and Mansions of the Old South written by Joseph Frazer Smith and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rich survey ranges from pioneer cabins to French Provincial and Neoclassic revivals. Extensive commentary on each building, with over 100 detailed illustrations, including 36 floor plans. Bibliography.

Author : Amy Feely Morsman
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813930081
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big House after Slavery written by Amy Feely Morsman and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2010-10-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Kathryn Masson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Historic Houses of Virginia written by Kathryn Masson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The treasures of American heritage showcased in this volume include such masterpieces as Colonial Williamsburg's Governor's Palace, George Washington's Mt. Vernon, Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, Robert E. Lee's Arlington House, and Stratford Hall Plantation--all presented in new photography commissioned for this book. (Architecture)

Author : Peter Hodson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birth of a Virginia Plantation House written by Peter Hodson and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Betsy Wells Edwards
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Virginia Country written by Betsy Wells Edwards and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes 27 homes in Virginia from Toddsbury built around 1690 to Woodside Farm built in 1850 with color photographs and histories of the families who live in them.

Author : Lynn Rainville
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789202329
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Invisible Founders written by Lynn Rainville and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-06-14 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literal and metaphorical excavations at Sweet Briar College reveal how African American labor enabled the transformation of Sweet Briar Plantation into a private women’s college in 1906. This volume tells the story of the invisible founders of a college founded by and for white women. Despite being built and maintained by African American families, the college did not integrate its student body for sixty years after it opened. In the process, Invisible Founders challenges our ideas of what a college “founder” is, restoring African American narratives to their deserved and central place in the story of a single institution — one that serves as a microcosm of the American South.

Author : Jan Arrigo, Laura McElroy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781616731229
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plantations & Historic Homes of New Orleans written by Jan Arrigo, Laura McElroy and published by . This book was released on with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hurricane Katrina ravaged much of New Orleans in 2005, but thankfully the city’s most treasured historic homes survived. Plantations & Historic Homes of New Orleans is a poignant tribute of these storied mansions, whose architectural beauty brings a unique flair to the Big Easy’s most famous neighborhoods. From the French Quarter and Garden District to Uptown, Marigny, and Bayou St. John, many of New Orleans’ grandest old homes and nearby plantations are featured in this book, showcasing the massive brick columns, intricate cast-iron balconies, wide verandas, sumptuous parlors, and humble servants quarters that give this area its charm. Open these pages and you’ll travel to Destrehan, the oldest plantation house in the Mississippi Valley, originally built of hand-hewn bald cypress timber using briquette entre’pateaux, mud (clay, river sand, and Spanish moss) between post; the homes artist Edgar Degas and author William Faulkner lived in during their New Orleans’ stays; and the 1850 House located in the Lower Pontalba building on Jackson Square. Learn about the building’s namesake, a baroness with a tumultuous family life who managed to escape murder and was also responsible for building the American embassy in Paris. With lavish photographs of exteriors and rooms of special interest, gardens and curiosities, and detailed information about New Orleans’ diverse architecture and history, this book is both a perfect guide for visitors and natives alike and an enchanting visual tour of one of the greatest cities in the United States.