Lost Mansions

Author : Mary Carol Miller
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604737875
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Mansions of Mississippi, Volume II written by Mary Carol Miller and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2010-09-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As preservationist Mary Carol Miller talked with Mississippians about her books on lost mansions and landmarks, enthusiasts brought her more stories of great architecture ravaged by time. The twenty-seven houses included in her new book are among the most memorable of Mississippi's vanished antebellum and Victorian mansions. The list ranges from the oldest house in the Natchez region, lost in a 1966 fire, to a Reconstruction-era home that found new life as a school for freed slaves. From two Gulf Coast landmarks both lost to Hurricane Katrina, to the mysteriously misplaced facades of Hernando's White House and Columbus's Flynnwood, these homes mark high points in the broad sweep of Mississippi history and the state's architectural legacy. Miller tells the stories of these homes through accounts from the families who built and maintained them. These structures run the stylistic gamut from Greek revival to Second Empire, and their owners include everyone from Revolutionary-era soldiers to governors and scoundrels.

Author : Oliver Bradbury
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lost Mansions of Mayfair written by Oliver Bradbury and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internationally renowned, Mayfair is comprised principally of the important estates of the Grosvenors and Berkeleys. It has always been an area where the affluent resided. This work is the first to catalogue in detail the architectural losses of this area. It provides detailed descriptions in text, photographs and drawings, building on the work of the Survey of London in providing such a record. Though describing the losses, it also contains an appendix of the best of the survivors for the reader to see in Mayfair or in nearby Marylebone. Owners, key artisans and, of course, architects are listed. Fully indexed.

Author : Larry Millett
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452933111
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Once There Were Castles written by Larry Millett and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a tour of the lost mansions of the Twin Cities

Author : J. Raven
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137520779
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Mansions written by J. Raven and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-04-29 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative volume stimulates debate about lost 'heritage' by examining the history of the hundreds of great houses demolished in Britain and Ireland in the twentieth century. Seven lively essays debate our understanding of what is meant by loss and how it relates to popular conceptions of the great house.

Author : Mary Carol Miller
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781617034213
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Mansions of Mississippi written by Mary Carol Miller and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marc R. Matrana
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 162846951X
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Plantations of the South written by Marc R. Matrana and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great majority of the South's plantation homes have been destroyed over time, and many have long been forgotten. In Lost Plantations of the South, Marc R. Matrana weaves together photographs, diaries and letters, architectural renderings, and other rare documents to tell the story of sixty of these vanquished estates and the people who once called them home. From plantations that were destroyed by natural disaster such as Alabama's Forks of Cypress, to those that were intentionally demolished such as Seven Oaks in Louisiana and Mount Brilliant in Kentucky, Matrana resurrects these lost mansions. Including plantations throughout the South as well as border states, Matrana carefully tracks the histories of each from the earliest days of construction to the often-contentious struggles to preserve these irreplaceable historic treasures. Lost Plantations of the South explores the root causes of demise and provides understanding and insight on how lessons learned in these sad losses can help prevent future preservation crises. Capturing the voices of masters and mistresses alongside those of slaves, and featuring more than one hundred elegant archival illustrations, this book explores the powerful and complex histories of these cardinal homes across the South.

Author : Giles Worsley
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's Lost Houses written by Giles Worsley and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the photographs in Country Life's archives, none are more poignant or intriguing than the images of houses that have been lost. This text puts the lost country houses of England in historical context and explains why so many were destroyed.

Author : Bill Dedman
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345534530
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empty Mansions written by Bill Dedman and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Janet Maslin, The New York Times • St. Louis Post-Dispatch When Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Bill Dedman noticed in 2009 a grand home for sale, unoccupied for nearly sixty years, he stumbled through a surprising portal into American history. Empty Mansions is a rich mystery of wealth and loss, connecting the Gilded Age opulence of the nineteenth century with a twenty-first-century battle over a $300 million inheritance. At its heart is a reclusive heiress named Huguette Clark, a woman so secretive that, at the time of her death at age 104, no new photograph of her had been seen in decades. Though she owned palatial homes in California, New York, and Connecticut, why had she lived for twenty years in a simple hospital room, despite being in excellent health? Why were her valuables being sold off? Was she in control of her fortune, or controlled by those managing her money? Dedman has collaborated with Huguette Clark’s cousin, Paul Clark Newell, Jr., one of the few relatives to have frequent conversations with her. Dedman and Newell tell a fairy tale in reverse: the bright, talented daughter, born into a family of extreme wealth and privilege, who secrets herself away from the outside world. Huguette was the daughter of self-made copper industrialist W. A. Clark, nearly as rich as Rockefeller in his day, a controversial senator, railroad builder, and founder of Las Vegas. She grew up in the largest house in New York City, a remarkable dwelling with 121 rooms for a family of four. She owned paintings by Degas and Renoir, a world-renowned Stradivarius violin, a vast collection of antique dolls. But wanting more than treasures, she devoted her wealth to buying gifts for friends and strangers alike, to quietly pursuing her own work as an artist, and to guarding the privacy she valued above all else. The Clark family story spans nearly all of American history in three generations, from a log cabin in Pennsylvania to mining camps in the Montana gold rush, from backdoor politics in Washington to a distress call from an elegant Fifth Avenue apartment. The same Huguette who was touched by the terror attacks of 9/11 held a ticket nine decades earlier for a first-class stateroom on the second voyage of the Titanic. Empty Mansions reveals a complex portrait of the mysterious Huguette and her intimate circle. We meet her extravagant father, her publicity-shy mother, her star-crossed sister, her French boyfriend, her nurse who received more than $30 million in gifts, and the relatives fighting to inherit Huguette’s copper fortune. Richly illustrated with more than seventy photographs, Empty Mansions is an enthralling story of an eccentric of the highest order, a last jewel of the Gilded Age who lived life on her own terms.

Author : Paul Miller
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1557090912
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Newport written by Paul Miller and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in cooperation with the Preservation Society of Newport County, this evocative paperback guide recreates 50 summer houses, now lost, built during the golden age of Newport, Rhode Island's reign as the queen of resorts.

Author : John Graf
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738533612
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicago's Mansions written by John Graf and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of Chicago's mansions includes fashionable residences designed by such architects as Louis Sullivan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Henry Hobson Richardson, Daniel Burnham, and John Wellborn Root.