E Francis Baldwin Architect

Author : Carlos P. Avery
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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 : 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 : Kathleen Waters Sander
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421422212
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John W. Garrett and the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad written by Kathleen Waters Sander and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-05-25 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How John W. Garrett and the B&O Railroad he headed for twenty-six years helped to transform America by linking the nation. Chartered in 1827 as the country’s first railroad, the legendary Baltimore and Ohio played a unique role in the nation’s great railroad drama and became the model for American railroading. John W. Garrett, who served as president of the B&O from 1858 to 1884, ranked among the great power brokers of the time. In this gripping and well-researched account, historian Kathleen Waters Sander tells the story of the B&O’s beginning and its unprecedented plan to build a rail line from Baltimore over the Allegheny Mountains to the Ohio River, considered to be the most ambitious engineering feat of its time. The B&O’s success ignited “railroad fever” and helped to catapult railroading to America’s most influential industry in the nineteenth century. Taking the B&O helm during the railroads’ expansive growth in the 1850s, Garrett soon turned his attention to the demands of the Civil War. Sander explains how, despite suspected Southern sympathies, Garrett became one of President Abraham Lincoln's most trusted confidantes and strategists, making the B&O available for transporting Northern troops and equipment to critical battles. The Confederates attacked the B&O 143 times, but could not put “Mr. Lincoln’s Road” out of business. After the war, Garrett became one of the first of the famed Gilded Age tycoons, rising to unimagined power and wealth. Sander explores how—when he was not fighting fierce railroad wars with competitors—Garrett steered the B&O into highly successful entrepreneurial endeavors, quadrupling track mileage to reach important commercial markets, jumpstarting Baltimore’s moribund postwar economy, and constructing lavish hotels in Western Maryland to open tourism in the region. Sander brings to life the brazen risk-taking, clashing of oversized egos, and opulent lifestyles of the Gilded Age tycoons in this richly illustrated portrait of one man’s undaunted efforts to improve the B&O and advance its technology. Chronicling the epic technological transformations of the nineteenth century, from rudimentary commercial trade and primitive transportation westward to the railroads’ indelible impact on the country and the economy, John W. Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett’s twenty-six-year reign.

Author : Gillian R. Overing
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847006258
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American/Medieval written by Gillian R. Overing and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2016-10-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a dialogue with and through the medieval informed by cultural categories of performativity and simultaneity in on-line media, architecture, film, poetry, and social formations. The articles depart from Medievalism Studies and attempt to answer questions such as: How do medievalists, artists, writers, and entertainment industries communicate, replicate, and evoke medieval formations? How do national and transnational discursive fields relate to understandings of the medieval in its many unstable states? Where are the communal memory sites and what functions do they serve for those who are associated with them? Where are the medieval disjunctions and conjunctions of race, ethnicity and time in a settler society? And what do place, nature, and landscape have to do with it?

Author : Kathleen Waters Sander
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 142143864X
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mary Elizabeth Garrett written by Kathleen Waters Sander and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sander's thoughtful and informed study of this pioneering philanthropist is the first to recognize Garrett and her monumental contributions to equality in America.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Railroad History written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nancy Capace
Publisher : Somerset Publishers, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 040309822X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Maryland written by Nancy Capace and published by Somerset Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathers information about Maryland's geography, history, government, and constitution, and identifies modern and historic places throughout the state.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 990 pages
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Download or read book The National Register of Historic Places written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 990 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 988 pages
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Download or read book The National Register of Historic Places, 1976 written by and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 988 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Andra Damron
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439619794
Total Pages : 128 pages
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Download or read book Hyattsville written by Andra Damron and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hyattsville, Maryland, takes its name from businessman Christopher Clarke Hyatt, who was made the area’s first postmaster in January 1859. Hyatt’s home and general store were located at the intersection of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the Washington-Baltimore Turnpike, only six miles from the Capitol. Hyatt and other early entrepreneurs transformed the rural countryside, aided by the railroad, into one of the largest communities in Prince George’s County by the city’s April 1886 incorporation. With its prime location and the advent of the streetcar and automobile, Hyattsville’s regional prominence was insured. Today the city’s history is reflected by its 1,000-building historic district, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The photographs here, collected from area archives and family memorabilia, depict the life of the community over a 100-year span, including wars, women’s suffrage, Prohibition, economic depression, rapid growth, and racial divide. Hyattsville’s citizens met these and other challenges with spirit, innovation, perseverance, and tolerance.