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Author: Jonathan H. Poston
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 726
ISBN-13: 9781570032028
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the Battery to Wragg mall, a comprehensive guide to the architectural treasures of one of America's best preserved cities.
Author: Albert Simons
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780872497085
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Highlights the architectural heritage paying tribute to the skill of America's early architects.
Author: Witold Rybczynski
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2019-01-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0300229070
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This delightful chronicle of contemporary building and planning in the city of Charleston, South Carolina, makes a compelling case for the importance of architecture on a local scale.
Author: Gene Waddell
Publisher: Gibbs M. Smith, Incorporated
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book is about how a consistently high standard of excellence was achieved in Charleston architecture in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Regardless of what style Charleston's architects used—Greek or Roman, Gothic or Renaissance, Adamesque or Greek Revival—they were in agreement about what constituted excellence. Special emphasis is placed on the knowledge that was required to create Charleston's early architecture. An introduction discusses the writings and buildings of Andrea Palladio, Robert Adam, A. Welby Pugin, and other influential architects. Sources of inspiration for Charleston buildings have included specific buildings in Greece, Italy, England, France and Germany. Whenever possible, primary sources of information were used to determine how various types of Charleston buildings were designed and constructed. A dozen of the city's best-documented buildings are considered in detail as a basis for comparison:
Author: Steve Gross
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
Published: 2016-09-13
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1423638522
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this elegant hardbound volume, photographers Steve Gross and Susan Daley take you on an intimate tour of some of the finest historic homes, gardens, churches, and plantations of the old city of Charleston and its surrounding Lowcountry. Their luminescent photographs reveal an insider's look at the definitive architecture and landscape of the region, ranging from private gardens hidden behind wrought iron gates to some of America's first landscaped garden vistas. From colonial-era French Quarter homes to Federal and Greek Revival townhouses and antebellum plantation houses, the selection featuring old family, private homes to museum showplaces make this an essential book for visitors, architects, preservationists or armchair travelers. Photographers Steve Gross and Susan Daley specialize in photographing interiors and the architecture of the changing American landscape. They are the coauthors of ten previous books on the various styles of American homes and design, including Creole Houses, Old Florida, and most recently Farmhouse Revival and The Creative Cottage. Their work has been published extensively in magazines around the world and is in private collections including the Smithsonian Institution
Author: David R. AvRutick
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2019-03-01
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1493037544
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Charleston is one of the most historically significant cities in the United States. One of the prime attractions of Charleston is the spectacular array of historic buildings spanning a wide variety of architectural styles. From simple pre-Revolutionary–era dwellings to spectacular Italianate, Greek Revival, and Victorian homes, to colonial government buildings, to some of the oldest and most beautiful churches, Charleston’s architectural splendor is unparalleled in the United States.
Author: Mary Preston Foster
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 132
ISBN-13: 9780738517797
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A guide book will help natives and visitors alike appreciate the history and residents of the beautiful city of Charleston, South Carolina, one of the South's great cultural destinations, which has endured periods of grandeur, occupation, a devastating earthquake, fires, hurricanes, and the challenges of Reconstruction. Original.
Author: Lissa Felzer
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781596292864
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Charleston's "freedman's cottages" are some of the most understudied and undervalued vernacular buildings in the city, found as far south as Council Street and as far north as North Charleston. Though these cottages have long been associated with African American history and culture, they in fact extend much further into the history and development of Charleston and deserve to be studied and understood. The predominant theory is that these tiny houses, often no larger than five hundred square feet, were constructed by and for freed slaves after the Civil War, due to a rising need for inexpensive housing. Who occupied these houses over time? What were their lives like? Most of them were ordinary citizens to whom we can all relate. Each one of these houses has at least a hundred stories to tell, many of which have been uncovered and recounted here. Join local preservationist Lissa D'Aquisto Felzer as she elevates the freedman's cottages to their rightful place in the history of Charleston architecture.
Author: Leigh Jones Handal
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Published: 2019-09-03
Total Pages: 147
ISBN-13: 1911595938
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From the dawn of the photographic era, Lost Charleston chronicles the markets, mansions, hotels, restaurants, church towers and cherished businesses that time, progress, and fashion have swept aside. The miracle of Charleston is that despite the very worst that man and nature has thrown at it--from earthquakes to hurricanes, great fires to Civil War bombardment--so much of the city has been preserved. Lost Charleston shows what else could have been on display for tourists to visit had events been otherwise. Using classic archive images, Charleston's greatest architectural and cultural losses are documented in chronological order from 1861 through to 2018. Apart from the grand buildings there are also elements of Charleston life precious to Charlestonians that have disappeared over time, many of which will still resonate with the local community. These include beloved local restaurants, annual festivals, the fishing fleet that DuBose Heyward wrote about in his novel Porgy, a famed local football team, trolley cars, and the Piggly Wiggly store. Plus there's the Jenkins Orphanage Band whose dance moves gave the city its most famous export: The Charleston!
Author: Samuel Gaillard Stoney
Publisher:
Published: 1944
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13:
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