The Architecture Of High Point North Carolina

Author : Benjamin Briggs
Publisher : History Press (SC)
ISBN 13 : 9781596293267
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Architecture of High Point, North Carolina written by Benjamin Briggs and published by History Press (SC). This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spare Quaker settlement and transportation crossroads at its founding, High Point, North Carolina, has grown into one of the state's leading industrial centers. Reflecting the city's growth and influence is an architectural inventory representative of High Point's civic pride and cultural sophistication. Within the city limits lies an architectural treasure-trove, representing nearly every popular style since the city was founded, including designs by nationally recognized architects and planners. The City of High Point is proud to share this remarkable collection, published here for the first time.

Author : Barbara E. Taylor
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738599298
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book High Point written by Barbara E. Taylor and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1859, High Point was located at the highest point on the rail line between Charlotte and Goldsboro. The early growth of the city was due to it being a crossroads of the Plank Road and railroad, making it a transportation hub. Known as the furniture capital of the world, High Point has always been a manufacturing center, also specializing in textiles and tobacco. High Point is the only city in North Carolina located within four counties: Davidson, Forsyth, Guilford, and Randolph. Today, the world s largest furnishings market is held each spring and fall, drawing over 70,000 people. High Point showcases the rich manufacturing and community history of this North Carolina Triad city."

Author : High Point Chamber of Commerce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Building and the Builders of a City, High Point, North Carolina written by High Point Chamber of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book US-311 Bypass, High Point East Belt, Guilford/Randolph Counties written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Catherine W. Bishir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Piedmont North Carolina written by Catherine W. Bishir and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Central North Carolina boasts a rich and varied architectural landscape. This richly illustrated guide offers a fascinating look at the Piedmont's historic architecture, covering more than 2,000 sites in 34 counties. 535 illustrations.

Author : Catherine W. Bishir
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469620782
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book North Carolina Architecture written by Catherine W. Bishir and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning, lavishly illustrated history displays the wide range of North Carolina's architectural heritage, from colonial times to the beginning of World War II. North Carolina Architecture addresses the state's grand public and private buildings that have become familiar landmarks, but it also focuses on the quieter beauty of more common structures: farmhouses, barns, urban dwellings, log houses, mills, factories, and churches. These buildings, like the people who created them and who have used them, are central to the character of North Carolina. Now in a convenient new format, this portable edition of North Carolina Architecture retains all of the text of the original edition as well as hundreds of halftones by master photographer Tim Buchman. Catherine Bishir's narrative analyzes construction and design techniques and locates the structures in their cultural, political, and historical contexts. This extraordinary history of North Carolina's built world presents a unique and valuable portrait of the state.

Author : Catherine W. Bishir
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to the Historic Architecture of Eastern North Carolina written by Catherine W. Bishir and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not just the Cupola House and Tryon Palace, but tobacco barns, shotgun houses, textile factories, and railroad stations, too. A feast of North Carolina's historic structures that will stand as a definitive source for many years". -- Roy Parker Jr., contributing editor, Fayetteville Observer- Times Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : John Joe Schlichtman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452966532
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Showroom City written by John Joe Schlichtman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique and engaging account of local urban decision-making within the globalizing world High Point, North Carolina, is known as the “Furniture Capital of the World.” Once a manufacturing stronghold, most of its furniture factories have closed over the past forty years, with production shipped off to low-wage countries. Yet as manufacturing left, the city tightened its hold on a biannual global exposition that serves as the world’s furniture fashion runway. At the High Point Market, visitors from more than one hundred nations traverse twelve million square feet of meticulous design. Downtown buildings—once courthouses, movie theaters, post offices, and gas stations—are now chic showroom spaces, even as many sit empty between each exposition. In Showroom City, John Joe Schlichtman applies an ethnographic lens to the global exposition’s relationship with High Point after it defeated rival Chicago in the 1960s and established itself as the world’s dominant furniture center. In recent decades, following trends in global finance, private equity firms were increasingly behind downtown High Point’s real estate transactions, coordinated by buyers far removed from the region. Then, in one massive transaction in 2011, a firm funded by Bain Capital purchased every major showroom building, and the majority of downtown real estate was under one owner. Showroom City is a story of exclusionary growth and unchecked development, of a city flailing to fill the void left by its dwindling factories. But beyond that Schlichtman engages the general lessons behind both High Point’s deindustrialization and its stunning reinvention as a furniture fashion, merchandising, and design node. With great nuance, he delves deeply to reveal how power operates locally and how citizens may affirm, exploit, influence, and resist the takeover of their community.

Author : Richard Hansley
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625841833
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Asheville's Historic Architecture written by Richard Hansley and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-31 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asheville: an architectural gem of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Known for its architectural diversity and intriguing Art Deco style, Asheville has been fortunate in attracting brilliant architects who have created lasting testaments in brick and stone with imaginative foresight and design expertise. Local architectural enthusiast Richard Hansley recounts the history behind dozens of Asheville's most prominent buildings and historical neighborhoods in Asheville's Historic Architecture. Discover how Douglas Ellington, Richard Sharp Smith, James Vester Miller and Tony Lord influenced this busy metropolis, as landmarks like the Jackson Building, the Grove Park Inn and the Art Deco City Building were constructed along the city's thriving streets. These buildings have stood the test of time and remain as breathtaking in concept and appearance today as when first completed.

Author : Mara Miller
Publisher : Vendome Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865653207
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Carrier and Company written by Mara Miller and published by Vendome Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This handsome volume features the exquisitely refined and tailored yet inviting and comfortable interiors by the husband-and-wife design duo Jesse Carrier and Mara Miller"--