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Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest (Buildings of the United States)
Anne Carter Lee
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Description for Buildings of Virginia: Valley, Piedmont, Southside, and Southwest (Buildings of the United States)
Hardcover. Series: Buildings of the United States. Num Pages: 520 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBFV; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1361.
Virginia is as much a state of mind as a set of geographical boundaries. Its western terrain encompasses dramatically beautiful mountaintops and scrubby lowlands, luxuriantly rich terrain, and rocky, almost untillable land. The green forests, rich loam, red clay, and sandy soil attracted waves of immigrants, newcomers almost as varied as the landscape. They came first to explore and trade and then to work, often to overwork, the land. The result in architecture is one of conservatism and rebellion, a region supremely proud of its history and, all too often, neglectful of its preservation.
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Virginia is as much a state of mind as a set of geographical boundaries. Its western terrain encompasses dramatically beautiful mountaintops and scrubby lowlands, luxuriantly rich terrain, and rocky, almost untillable land. The green forests, rich loam, red clay, and sandy soil attracted waves of immigrants, newcomers almost as varied as the landscape. They came first to explore and trade and then to work, often to overwork, the land. The result in architecture is one of conservatism and rebellion, a region supremely proud of its history and, all too often, neglectful of its preservation.
This second of two ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Series
Buildings of the United States
Number of Pages
520
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813935652
SKU
V9780813935652
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Ref
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About Anne Carter Lee
Anne Carter Lee, an architectural historian and preservation activist, assembled a team for this volume that includes contributors from the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, the National Trust, the Historic American Buildings Survey, Colonial Williamsburg, and the Art Department of Washington and Lee University.
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