Once There Were Castles
Author | : Larry Millett |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1452933111 |
Take a tour of the lost mansions of the Twin Cities
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Author | : Larry Millett |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 377 |
Release | : |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1452933111 |
Take a tour of the lost mansions of the Twin Cities
Author | : Larry Millett |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0873512731 |
1993 American Institute of Architects International Architecture Book Award
Author | : Larry Millett |
Publisher | : Minnesota Historical Society |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780873513272 |
Twin Cities: Then and Now is an engaging, startling, and at times heartbreaking look at the dramatic evolution of landscapes in Minneapolis and St. Paul. Larry Millett, author of Lost Twin Cities, explores the changing appearances of Minneapolis and St. Paul from the vantage point of their relatively static streets. Seventy-two historic photographs taken from the 1880s to the late 1950s, are paired with Jerry Mathiason's elegant new black-and-white photographs to provide superb visual comparisons between then and now. Millett's lively and informative essays examine the often astonishing changes wrought by time and circumstance. Maps and detailed informational graphics provide orientation and identify hundreds of significant buildings and places in the photographs.
Author | : Ernest Robert Sandeen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780816644094 |
Well known as the most prestigious and beautiful street in the Twin Cities, Summit Avenue runs past the opulent mansion of railroad tycoon James J. Hill, an early home of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and several residences designed by renowned architect Cass Gilbert. In its heyday the four-and-one-half-mile-long boulevard included 13 churches, 9 schools, and 440 residences, 373 of which survive. St. Paul's Historic Summit Avenue highlights the fascinating story of this boulevard, from its pre-Civil War origins, when the area was still considered wilderness, to its fashionable height at the turn of the century. Ernest R. Sandeen discusses the preservation of Summit Avenue and takes readers on a walking tour of the first and grandest mile of the street, beginning with the Cathedral of St. Paul. A second walking tour gives the reader Fitzgerald's Summit Avenue, including excerpts from his notebooks and stories describing the area. The book concludes with an index of Summit Avenue houses built through the 1970s. Before his death in 1982, Ernest R. Sandeen was the James Wallace Professor of History and codirector of the Living Historical Museum at Macalester College. He served as a member of St. Paul's Historic Preservation Commission and as a partner in Lanegran, Richter, and Sandeen, an architectural preservation, design, and land-use firm.
Author | : Hanje Richards |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Minneapolis |
ISBN | : 9781571456878 |
Celebrating America's favorite cityscapes, this series combines historic interest and contemporary beauty. Then and Now features fascinating archival photographs contrasted with specially commissioned, full-color images of the same scene today. A visual lesson in the historic changes of our greatest urban landscapes.
Author | : Shirley Jackson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Castles |
ISBN | : |
We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate.
Author | : A.C.E. Bauer |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2007-10-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375890793 |
AUGIE BORETSKI KNOWS how to get by. If you're a scrawny loser in the destitute city of Camden, New Jersey, you keep your head down, avoid the drug dealers and thugs, and try your best to be invisible. Augie used to be good at that, but suddenly his life is changing. . . . First, Augie accidentally steals a strange book of fairy tales. Then his mom makes him join the Big Brothers program and the chorus. And two bullies try to beat him up every day because of it. Just when it seems like things can't get any worse, an ice storm wrecks Augie's school. The city plans to close the school, abandoning one more building to the drug addicts. But Augie has a plan. For the first time in his life, Augie Boretski is not going down without a fight.
Author | : Malcolm Hislop |
Publisher | : Herbert Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781912217687 |
How to Read Castles is a travel-sized primer that takes a strictly visual approach to castle architecture, building up the reader's vocabulary of castle types, styles, and materials, and showing how these aspects can be recognized across architectural features from the floor-plan and moat, to the towers and crenulations. Focusing on the period from the 10th to the 16th century, and crusading across the globe from a Welsh motte-and-bailey to a Japanese hirajiro, this is both architectural reference and visitor guide--showing the reader how to read the stories embedded in every castle's stones. Castles once dominated the landscape as seats of power and symbols of wealth and status, providing a means of control over borders, passes, routes and rivers. Armed with this book you will be able to unpick their histories and see how they shaped the land around them. From rugged coastline defences to soaring mountain fortresses, this book takes the reader on an international journey of discovery, exploring some of the most inspiring and impressive architecture history has ever seen.
Author | : Shirley Jackson |
Publisher | : Dramatists Play Service Inc |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1967-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780822212263 |
THE STORY: The home of the Blackwoods near a Vermont village is a lonely, ominous abode, and Constance, the young mistress of the place, can't go out of the house without being insulted and stoned by the villagers. They have also composed a nasty s
Author | : Julie Garwood |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2011-05-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101531487 |
Passion and danger abound in this classic historical romance from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julie Garwood. Orphaned and besieged, Princess Alesandra knows that only a hasty marriage to an Englishman can protect her from the turmoil in her own land. The bold, raven-haired beauty instantly captivates London society, much to the amusement of her makeshift guardian, Colin, younger brother of the Marquess of Cainewood. But when Alesandra is nearly abducted by her unscrupulous countrymen, Colin knows he must protect her and offers a marriage that should be in name alone—until their first kiss ignites a wildfire in his soul. As the lovely princess dashes headlong into unforseen dangers, Colin will risk his own life to save her and claim Alessandra as his own—forever...