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Historic Buildings Of America, Esther Singleton, Alice Morse, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Architecture

xiv, 341 pages, 48 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Forty seven buildings are described, largely in Massachusetts, with some more in other New England and Mid-Atlantic States, one in California, two in South Carolina, and several in both Canada and Mexico. CONTENTS: The Capitol, Washington / Joseph B. Varnum -- Within the Capitol / Charles Dickens -- Arlington, Virginia / Iza Duffus Hardy -- Carpenter's Hall / Benson J. Lossing -- The Cradock House, Medford / Samuel Adams Drake -- Fraunces Tavern / William …

Broad Street Old And Historic District, Richmond, Virginia : Guidelines And Standards

Richmond Illustrated Imprints

From the preface: "This book is intended as a guide for the owners and developers of projects in the Broad Street Historic District. Its publication is the result of combined efforts of Historic Richmond Foundation, Richmond Renaissance, the Commission of Architectural Review, the Virginia Division of Historic Landmarks, and the Urban Design/Historic Preservation Section of the City of Richmond's Department of Planning and Community Development." This text contains photographs and drawings of buildings on Broad Street in Richmond, Virginia.

Published by Historic Richmond in 1986, the Broad Street Old and Historic District, Richmond, Virginia publication was intended as a …

L'Architecture Considérée Sous Le Rapport De L'Art : Des Moeurs Et De La Législation, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Architecture

1 v. in 2 ([2] ℓ., 240 p.) : 125 plates on 115 leaves. "Edition: Tome premier. De l'imprimerie de H.L. Perronneau. Deals exclusively with Ledoux's own projects and executed works, between 1768 and 1789. Museum transfer. Museum purchase, Nov. 1938, Mary B. Jackson Fund, purchased from Weyhe. Library accession, Oct. 1945."

Italian Villas And Their Gardens, Edith Wharton, Maxfield Parrish, Decorative Designers, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Architecture

xii, 270 pages : illustrations (some color). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Title within ornamental border. "Published November, 1904"--title page verso. "Architects and landscape-gardeners mentioned": pages 253-266. Includes index. Cover board, bound in dark green cloth, has an elaborate image of lions on a pediment stamped in gold. Below the lions is a multi-colored image of a garden and fountain scene. Below this image is a wide gold ornamental base in which the dark green cloth contrasts with the title, author, illustrator information. Cover design by cover design by Decorative …

Some Foreign Botanical Gardens And Parks, Charles E. Bessey

Landscape Architecture Program: Faculty Scholarly and Creative Activity

Last summer I had the privilege of visiting a number of botanical gardens and parks in different parts of Europe. The American visitor abroad is constantly reminded of the abundance of parks and botanical gardens in not only the larger cities but even in the small cities and towns. Hyde Park, Regent's Park, St. James Park and Green Park, London; Kew Gardens; Thiergarten, Berlin; Prater Park, Vienna; Moscow; Kislovodsk; Vladikavkaz, Tiflis; Erivan; Batum; Odessa.

Coming now to our own city of Lincoln, a city which has many things about it which are very attractive, one'is made to drop his head …

Mont-Saint-Michel And Chartres, Henry Adams, Ralph Adams Cram

Electronic Texts in American Studies

FROM the moment when, through the courtesy of my friend Barrett Wendell, I came first to know Mr. Henry Adams's book, MontSaint- Michel and Chartres, I was profoundly convinced that this privately printed, jealously guarded volume should be withdrawn from its hiding-place amongst the bibliographical treasures of collectors and amateurs and given that wide publicity demanded alike by its intrinsic nature and the cause it could so admirably serve. To say that the book was a revelation is inadequately to express a fact; at once all the theology, philosophy, and mysticism, the politics, sociology, and economics, the romance, literature, and …

The Flower Beautiful, Calrence Moores Weed, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

x, 136 pages : illus., leaves of plates (incl. front). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Embossed color illustration on cover. Lowthorpe Collection.

The Cathedrals Of Northern France, Francis [Pseud.] Miltoun, Blanche Mcmanus, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Architecture

400 p., [9 ] leaves of plates : ill., plans, fold. map. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Cathedral series. Illustrated end-papers. Includes index. Gift of the Estate of L. Earle Rowe.

Memorial Hospital 1903

VCU University History Books

The Charlotte Williams Memorial Hospital, a private hospital in Richmond, Virginia, opened as a private hospital in 1903. The hospital advertised its aim as relieving "suffering humanity by every means known to medical science." It had private rooms for paying patients and separate wards for "charity" patients. The aim was to make no profit and increase the number of free beds quickly. The hospital was deeded to the Medical College of Virginia (MCV) in 1913 and used as a teaching hospital; it later housed nursing students. In 1986, the building was sold, and the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) headquarters …

Church Records; Jan 1,1902 To Feb 23,1916, Delaware Avenue Baptist Church

Church Record Books

Church Membership, Notes to Feb. 1916

Old Time Gardens, Alice Morse Earle, Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

xviii, 489 pages : illus., leaves of plates. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes index. Stamped, color illustration on cover. c. 1 Lowthorpe Collection.

Artistic Tiles, American Encaustic Tiling Co.

Artistic Tiles from the American Encaustic Tiling Company

A manufacturer's catalog consisting of 89 unnumbered leaves of photographs and illustrations of embossed art tiles, some displayed as surrounding a mantle and some displayed on their own. Details for the tiles are given including size of tiles and assigned numbers, presumably corresponding to their manufacturing number. Included is a drawing of "a modern bathroom," as well as "profiles, of a few of our base, cap, cove, bead, and door trim tiles."

Ceramic Mosaic Tile : Mounted On Paper, American Encaustic Tiling Co.

Artistic Tiles from the American Encaustic Tiling Company

A manufacturer's catalog consisting of seventy-one color plates which depict available patterns, sizing, colors, lettering and numbers for myriad styles of floor tile design.

Ua96/2 Meeting Minutes, Southern Educational Building Company

WKU Administration Documents

1900 meeting minutes of the Board of Directors of the Southern Educational Building Company. Include discussion of contractors' bids and sale of bonds.

Imagination: Reinterpreting The Sublime And Its Applications Towards Architecture, Daniel J. Blelenin Jr.

Architecture Thesis Prep

"The main objective of this body of work is to explore the sublime as a contemporary concept and its role for the development of an architecture of memory. This work will attempt to define a conceptual and design framework as well as research and design methodologies of which a construction of the sublime can desirably operate."

How To Know The Ferns : A Guide To The Names, Haunts, And Habits Of Our Common Ferns, Frances Theodora Parsons (Mrs. William Starr Dana), Marion Satterlee, Alice Josephine Smith, Special Collections

Landscape Architecture

xiv, 215 p. : ill., front. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes indexes. Gift of the Estate of Eleanor M. Phillips

Ua96/2 Meeting Minutes, Southern Educational Building Company

WKU Administration Documents

Meeting minutes of the Board of Directors of the Southern Educational Building Company for 1899. Creation of committee to choose location, purchase of property, Creedmore Flenor chosen architect and construction

Prudential Committee; Jan 8, 1898 To Nov 19, 1906, Delaware Avenue Baptist Church

Church Record Books

Minutes of Prudential Committee Meetings

Art Work Of Richmond

Richmond Illustrated Imprints

Publication detailing the history of Richmond, Virginia, accompanied by black and white photographs of city locations. Published in nine parts.

The Water Supply Of The Rhode Island College, Edgar Francis Tabor

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Development history and current status (as of 1896) of the water supply system at the Rhode Island State College (now University of Rhode Island).

Richmond, Virginia: Photo-Gravures

Richmond Illustrated Imprints

Includes images of monuments, capitol buildings, city halls, church buildings, streetscapes, hotels libraries, portraits, museums, depots, college buildings, bank buildings, domestic architecture, hotels, monuments, parks, prisons, seminaries, rivers, and cemeteries.

Woodlawn Ledgers 1895 - 1912 Pages 501 - 540, Woodlawn Cemetery

Ledgers

No abstract provided.

Letter From Griffin & Randall To James W. Allison, 1894 October 30, Griffin & Randall

Building VCU’s President's House

Letter from Griffin & Randall to James W. Allison defining specifications and values for crystal plate, polished plate, and plate glass.

Sights And Scenes Of The World: A Photographic Portfolio, Edward L. Raymond

College Archives Selected Rare Books

"Rare and elaborate collection of the most beautiful and noted examples of palaces, castles, cathedrals, paintings, lakes, and picturesque scenery on the face of the globe, interspersed with instantaneous photographs of street scenes in the world's great cities designed to take the place of an extended tour around the world. Description of the scenes have been prepared by an extensive corps of distinguished tourists, the whole produced under the personal supervision of the eminent traveler, Edward L. Raymond."

Art Work Of San Antonio, Trinity University

Historical Documents

Photographs, with introductory text, of San Antonio (Texas) scenes and architecture during the late 19th century.

Art Out-Of-Doors, Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselear), Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

x, 399 pages. Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-399). Lowthorpe Collection Bound in green cloth. Front cover board has an illustration of two stylized trees at crossed angles. A ring circles the cross point of the trees and an open pair of shears and an open compass intertwine the ring.

H. Maria Wright (Cornerstone Laying 1893), Taylor University

Buildings and Grounds of Taylor University

The program for the 1893 H. Maria Wright cornerstone laying.

How To Know The Wild Flowers : A Guide To The Names, Haunts, And Habits Of Our Common Wild Flowers, Mrs. William Starr Dana (Frances Theodora Parsons), Special Collections, Fleet Library

Landscape Architecture

xxxix, 346 p., [48] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.). Curated title for Fleet Library Special Collections book cover exhibition Bound to Please, fall 2022. Second edition, with colored plates. 71st thousand. Illustrated by Marion Satterlee and Elsie Louise Shaw.

The Voice Of The Phi Sigma -- 1892 -- Vol. 14 No. 01, Phi Sigma

The Voice of the Phi Sigma

This item is part of the Phi Sigma collection at the College Archives & Special Collections department of Columbia College Chicago. Contact [email protected] for more information and to view the collection.

Chicago Illustrated: Martin's World's Fair Album-Atlas And Family Souvenir, J. F. Martin

College Archives Selected Rare Books

This edition features artistic half-tone illustrations of the buildings and grounds from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. It includes historical reviews of the states and nations participating in the Fair with maps. Additionally, this edition contains information about previous World's Fairs, Christopher Columbus, Native Americans, and the city of Chicago.