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Full-Text Articles in Architecture
The Future Of Jewish Monuments, Samuel Gruber, Samuel D. Gruber
The Future Of Jewish Monuments, Samuel Gruber, Samuel D. Gruber
Religion - All Scholarship
Exhibition essay from first exhibition focused on the documentation, protection and preservation of Jewish monuments and historic sites. The exhibition opened in conjunction with the international conference "The Future of Jewish Monuments," organized by the Jewish Heritage Council of the World Monuments Fund. The exhibition focused on the needs of historic sites in Eastern Europe, North Africa, the united States and elsewhere, and made the case for international support.
Metzer, Joseph Allen And Amy Y. Taylor (Fa 163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
Metzer, Joseph Allen And Amy Y. Taylor (Fa 163), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives
FA Finding Aids
Finding aid and full-text scan of paper (Click on “Additional Files” below) for Folklife Archives Project 163. Paper (25 p.) entitled "I-House at 1311 Clay Street, Bowling Green, Kentucky" by Western Kentucky University students Metzer and Taylor for a vernacular architecture class.
The Huntington Mansion In New York: Economics Of Architecture And Decoration In The 1890s, Isabelle Hyman
The Huntington Mansion In New York: Economics Of Architecture And Decoration In The 1890s, Isabelle Hyman
The Courier
In 1889 railroad millionaire Collis P. Huntington (1821-1900) and his wife Arabella (d. 1924) purchased a large property on the southeast comer of New York's Fifth Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street, the most fashionable residential neighborhood of the period, and undertook to build there another of the great stone piles that constituted the habitats of the very rich during the city's Gilded Age. Aspects of the history of the Fifty-seventh Street Huntington mansion have been recounted, but supplementary information about its decoration and about the artists and craftsmen who embellished it can be found in the George Arents Research Library at …
Ordering The Urban Environment: City Statutes And City Planning In Medieval Todi, Italy, Samuel Gruber, Samuel D. Gruber
Ordering The Urban Environment: City Statutes And City Planning In Medieval Todi, Italy, Samuel Gruber, Samuel D. Gruber
Art & Music Histories - All Scholarship
Presents examples of how legal system and city government action ordered the urban environment through regulations and actions for streets size and widths, building materials, size and appearance, and distribution of activities. As demonstrated in the medieval Umbrian town of Todi, such regulations helped create the image of the medieval town we appreciate today.