Baltimore Architecture

Author : Mary Ellen Hayward
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801878060
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of Baltimore written by Mary Ellen Hayward and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic stylings follow excursions into the Greek and Gothic Revivals, the rise of the popular Italianate-mode for town and country houses : fine examples of soaring church spires; public spaces like the Peabody Library, and masterpieces of ornamented dignity."

Author : Charles Duff
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738542812
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baltimore Architecture written by Charles Duff and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baltimore, Maryland, is one of America's oldest and most beautiful big cities. Twelve generations of Baltimoreans have built and destroyed some of America's best constructions. Then and Now: Baltimore Architecture shows the dramatic building and rebuilding of architecture around the city's harbor, in its downtown, and throughout its great historic neighborhoods.

Author : John R. Dorsey
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Baltimore Architecture written by John R. Dorsey and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1997 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From eighteenth-century mansions to urban high-rise buildings, the book chronicles two hundred years of architectural history through an exploration of the city's most beautiful and significant structures. Grouped by neighborhood in walking and driving tours, each building is pictured and described with a commentary on its history and style.

Author : Christopher Weeks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander Smith Cochran written by Christopher Weeks and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Cochran of Baltimore (1913–1990) was described as an "architectural missionary." Besides being devoted to modernism, Cochran was a highly romantic, deeply religious humanist who desired to keep the best of the past while adapting to modern needs. He transformed his city, pointing the way to its later renaissance in the 1960s. The book opens with a short biography of Cochran—peopled with the likes of Frank Lloyd Wright, Le Corbusier, George Howe, Richard Neutra, and Eero Saarinen. The second half is a portfolio of Cochran’s work.

Author : Charles Belfoure
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edmund G. Lind written by Charles Belfoure and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James D. Dilts
Publisher : Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baltimore's Cast-iron Buildings and Architectural Ironwork written by James D. Dilts and published by Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers. This book was released on 1991 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Baltimore was an innovator in the development of cast-iron architecture, but the city's heritage of buildings in this genre, once numbering more than a hundred, has dwindled to only a handful today. The Baltimore region also had a long tradition in iron production, beginning with the colonial era and continuing through the 1950s as Sparrows Point became the single largest steel complex in the world. Baltimore's Cast-Iron Buildings is a celebration of a unique aspect of Baltimore's architectural and industrial history. The authors examine cast-iron buildings in an integrated way to show how the material was fabricated and the buildings erected. They also explore the cast and wrought ironwork used for gates, fences, railings, and ornaments. The heavily illustrated work includes ironwork catalogs from the mid-1800s.

Author : Richard Striner
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421411628
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Washington and Baltimore Art Deco written by Richard Striner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-04-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art Deco buildings still lift their modernist principles and streamlined chrome into the skies of Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Second Place Winner of the Design and Effectiveness Award of the Washington Publishers The bold lines and decorative details of Art Deco have stood the test of time since one of its first appearances in the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris in 1925. Reflecting the confidence of modern mentality—streamlined, chrome, and glossy black—along with simple elegance, sharp lines, and cosmopolitan aspirations, Art Deco carried surprises, juxtaposing designs growing out of speed (racecars and airplanes) with ancient Egyptian and Mexican details, visual references to Russian ballet, and allusions to Asian art. While most often associated with such masterworks as New York’s Chrysler Building, Art Deco is evident in the architecture of many U.S. cities, including Washington and Baltimore. By updating the findings of two regional studies from the 1980s with new research, Richard Striner and Melissa Blair explore the most significant Art Deco buildings still standing and mourn those that have been lost. This comparative study illuminates contrasts between the white-collar New Deal capital and the blue-collar industrial port city, while noting such striking commonalities as the regional patterns of Baltimore’s John Jacob Zinc, who designed Art Deco cinemas in both cities. Uneven preservation efforts have allowed significant losses, but surviving examples of Art Deco architecture include the Bank of America building in Baltimore (now better known as 10 Light Street) and the Uptown Theater on Connecticut Avenue NW in Washington. Although possibly less glamorous or flamboyant than exemplars in New York or Miami, the authors find these structures—along with apartment houses and government buildings—typical of the Deco architecture found throughout the United States and well worth preserving. Demonstrating how an international design movement found its way into ordinary places, this study will appeal to architectural historians, as well as regional residents interested in developing a greater appreciation of Art Deco architecture in the mid-Atlantic region.

Author : Carlos P. Avery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972974301
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book E. Francis Baldwin, Architect written by Carlos P. Avery and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of a major Baltimore architect and an illustrated catalog of his buildings, including railroad stations, churches, and commercial structures, primarily in the mid-Atlantic region.

Author : Brennen Jensen
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467145769
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History Lover's Guide to Baltimore, A written by Brennen Jensen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Neither southern nor northern, Baltimore has charted its own course through the American experience. The spires of the nation's first cathedral rose into its sky, and the first blood of the Civil War fell on its streets. Here, enslaved Frederick Douglass toiled before fleeing to freedom and Billie Holiday learned to sing. Baltimore's clippers plied the seven seas, while its pioneering railroads opened the prairie West. The city that birthed "The Star-Spangled Banner" also gave us Babe Ruth and the bottle cap. This guide navigates nearly three hundred years of colorful history--from Johns Hopkins's earnest philanthropy to the raucous camp of John Waters and from modest row houses to the marbled mansions of the Gilded Age. Let local authors Brennen Jensen and Tom Chalkley introduce you to Mencken's "ancient and solid" city--]cBack cover.

Author : Sheryl Cucchiella
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Baltimore Deco written by Sheryl Cucchiella and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: