age ~53
from Lawrenceville, GA
Eastern North Carolina boasts some of the oldest and most distinctive architecture in the state, from colonial churches and antebellum plantation houses to the imperiled lighthouses of the late nineteenth century. The more recent history of this predominantly agricultural region includes landscapes ...
Author
Catherine W. Bishir, Michael T. Southern
Binding
Paperback
Pages
504
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN #
0807845949
EAN Code
9780807845943
ISBN #
7
This portable field guide to the historic architecture of western North Carolina covers 1,200 historic buildings in 25 counties in the foothills and mountains. It introduces readers to the region's rich and diverse architectural heritage--from the log farmstead to the opulent mountain retreat, and f...
Author
Catherine W. Bishir, Michael T. Southern, Jennifer F. Martin
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
496
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN #
0807824658
EAN Code
9780807824658
ISBN #
10
An old graveyard, writes Ruth Little, is a cultural encyclopedia--an invaluable source of insight and information about the families, traditions, and cultural connections that shape a community. But although graveyards and gravemarkers have long been recognized as vital elements of the material cult...
Author
M. Ruth Little
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
352
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN #
0807824178
EAN Code
9780807824177
ISBN #
4
This is the story of one man's quest to breathe life back into some of America's most historically significant dwellings. Richard Jenrette's affinity for endangered historic sites has led to the restoration of such historic houses as Edgewater on the Hudson River; Millford Plantation and the Roper H...
Author
Richard Hampton Jenrette
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
224
Publisher
Wyrick
ISBN #
0941711463
EAN Code
9780941711463
ISBN #
3
A thousand unique gravestones cluster around old Presbyterian churches in the piedmont of the two Carolinas and in central Pennsylvania. Most are the vulnerable legacy of three generations of the Bigham family, Scotch Irish stonecutters whose workshop near Charlotte created the earliest surviving ar...
Author
Daniel W. Patterson
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
496
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN #
0807835676
EAN Code
9780807835678
ISBN #
2
Thomas Day (1801-61), a free man of color from Milton, North Carolina, became the most successful cabinetmaker in North Carolina--white or black--during a time when most blacks were enslaved and free blacks were restricted in their movements and activities. His surviving furniture and architectural ...
Author
Patricia Phillips Marshall, Jo Ramsay Leimenstoll
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
320
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN #
080783341X
EAN Code
9780807833414
ISBN #
1