Book Description

In a unique approach to our capital city's architecture and the surrounding area, this outstanding guide examines more than the monuments and grand avenues and the exemplary modern and postmodern structures. It puts the architecture in context, exploring the historical, aesthetic, economic and political forces that have influenced the way and reasons why buildings have been built here. Contains more than 280 buildings replete with photograph and a brief description including the name of the architect and year built. ... Read more

Book Description

Although Fort Worth bears the trappings of any majormetropolitan city-shopping malls, suburbs and office towers-it isenriched by many buildings that reflect a colorful, diverse heritageshaped by the frontier, the railroad, cattle drives and ranching,oil and industry, and both the poverty of the Depression and thelargesse of various benefactors.

Fort Worth's Legendary Landmarks captures the city's rich historywith photos of over eighty of the city's buildings whose backgroundand design embody periods of the city's history, but whose storiesare not well known today.

The legendary landmarks of the fort that became a city demonstratethe brick-and-mortar responses generations of Fort Worth communitieshave made to the forces that shaped its history. ... Read more

Reviews (1)

--"Come home to Virginia, the good Mother State"--
PHOTOGRAPHIC STUDIES OF OLD VIRGINIA HOMES AND GARDENS was recently purchased by my brother at a used book sale and given to me. The copyright date is 1953 and this is truly a rare and unique find.

This is a small book with 67 black and white photographs of "the grand old homes of Virginia the Beautiful." F. Meredith Dietz, begins by writing a charming introduction where she talks about the great men and women who lived in these stately homes, and how their very character and culture is reflected in the thoughtful details of their buildings and gardens. She says, "Through the rooms and along the garden paths, the shadows of all of those who have gone before, guide us and show us more intimately than any biographers, the environments that influenced them."

Here are a few of the illustrations: Berry Hill, Halifax County; Carter Hall, Clark County; Carter's Grove, James City County; Fairfield, Clarke County; Morven, Albemarle County; Oak Hill, Loudoun County; Oatlands, Loudoun County; Redlands, Albemarle County; Shirley, Charles City County; Sabine Hall, Richmond County; Stratford, Westmoreland County and Woodlawn, Fairfax County.

Today, we're more used to seeing color photographs, and our cameras are much better; however, this book has its own charm and appears to be the loving work of the author. The old black and white pictures are great, and fifty years later, still wonderful to see. ... Read more