William Douglas Pierson

American Buildings and Their Architects Vol. 1 : The Colonial and Neo-Classical Styles

American Buildings and Their Architects Vol. 2, Pt. 1 : Technology and the Picturesque: The Corporate and the Early Gothic Styles

American Buildings and Their Architects: The Colonial and Neoclassical Styles

American Buildings and Their Architects

American Ideals

American Buildings and Their Architects: Volume 2: Technology and the Picturesque: The Corporate and the Early Gothic Styles

The pre-Civil War architecture of the nineteenth century was marked by the development of two distinct styles: the "corporate," which originated in the chaste, brick buildings of early Boston, and the "early Gothic Revival," which brought new vitality to American religious and domestic architecture....

Der Grosse Kurfürst (Classic Reprint) (German Edition)

Excerpt from Der Grosse KurfürstSer fräftige lebbafte Sinabe gefiel einem jeben, ber ibn tennen lernte. Sefonberö gewann ibn fein Sbeim, ber große Gjuftab wolf, lieb. Ser Siönig batte von feiner 5emablin siliaria (eleonore, C'äcbwefter beä Rurfürften, nur eine Socbter, (ebriftine; er beftimmte fie b...

American Buildings and Their Architects: Volume 1: The Colonial and Neo-Classical Styles

Beginning with a description of Gothic, Classical, and Baroque architecture, Pierson explores how American architects used these traditions to develop a uniquely American style. He examines the works of the early masters, including Bulfinch's Massachusetts State House, Latrobe's Capitol Building in ...

Everyone in the Bible

Who was Izri, Rinnah, Heli? Are Mica, Micah, Micaiah, and Michaiah the same person or four different people? Where is the story of the scheming villain Haman found? What is meant by "she's a real Jezebel" or "he's a doubting Thomas"? Clearly identified in these pages are nearly 3,000 individuals--ab...

American buildings and their architects Volume 1: The Colonial and Neo-Classical Styles

A Confederate Diary (Abridged)

This is the diary of a North Carolina farmer, Bartlett Yancey Malone, who fought during the American Civil War from July, 1861, to November, 1863, when he was captured and made prisoner. He performed no extraordinary feat of heroism, at least none was recorded; he participated with distinction in no...

H. H. Richardson: The Architect, His Peers, and Their Era

introduction by William H. Pierson, Jr. In this book leading scholars reconsider the significance of the late nineteenth-century American architect Henry Hobson Richardson, perhaps best known for his design of Boston's Trinity Church. Against the long-held view of Richardson as an isolated and proto...

The Diary Of Bartlett Yancey Malone

Published in 1919, this is the diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone from Caswell County, North Carolina, from his time serving in the 6th North Carolina Infantry during the Civil War. Includes much time spent as a prison of war in Point Lookout Prison.